New Year's Eve Fundraiser Party

Parrot Heads and friends rang in the New Year in style at the Marysville Knights of Columbus Hall. It was our big fundraiser for the year to raise money for our many charitable donations. The hall was decorated with our banner and pictures of several things we have worked on over the past year. Also some Buffett-style things.




Our door people were there when the doors opened to greet everyone and take tickets. The DJ, Michael Dick from Big Foot DJ's was ready to get the party started. So in came the partiers to fill up the tables. We had a good turn out about 125 people. We were worried for a while there with low ticket sales at first but people were calling up to the day of the party.




Steve Padgett, our President gave an opening speach to welcome everyone and do a "Team Drink". Then we ate our dinner from Tony and Mary's Catering. It was delicious! Once the dance floor was cleared of the buffet tables the dancing started.



At about 10:00 we stopped the music to take care of some door prizes. With every ticket you were entered into a drawing for a weekend stay at Adventure Inn in Lake Port. Also if you brought in a canned good for MidCity Soup Kitchen you received another chance to win. We collected 93 lbs. of canned goods. Thank you for that! We also had a drawing for a Margaritaville basket. Steve Padgett and Kenn Davis did the drawings and here are the winners.



After the drawings and the DJ interview with the Pirate to see if he was enjoying himself, we went back to dancing. Later some Margaritaville appetizers were put out for munching and then the pizza showed up. Talk about a "pheeding phrenzy"! Midnight was quickly approching, so party favors were passed out and champagne was poured. Soon the count down started 4...3...2...1...Happy New Year!!! Everyone was blowing horns, hugging and kissing. We had made it to 2012!!



This party was a lot of hard work and several people have to be recognized. First and for most are Kenn and MaryKay Davis for heading the whole thing up. It was their vision and constant hard work that made this the success it was. You can never forget your bartenders, Kenn Davis and John who kept the drinks coming. The wonderful kitchen helpers who made sure we had food to keep us on the dance floor. Thank you to everyone who helped decorate, sell tickets, work the party and cleaned up after it. Without the help of the club members we couldn't even think of putting on events like this. The total amount raised was $2,360.00 with a few more items to come in so the grand total may to higher. Thank you to everyone and Happy New Year!



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