ALL OURS, ALL HOURS: Library Leader Lauded
CHARITY BALL NETS $125,000 FOR SHELTER
Posted: November 1, 2009 at 1:44 a.m.
LITTLE ROCK — I dusted off my trusty blinking tiara for yet another venture to the seventh annual Mad Hatter Ball on Oct. 23 at the Crescent Hotel.
The Eureka Springs School of the Arts benefit had approximately 130 guests who helped raise more than $21,000 for the school that offers fine arts courses for adults.
Those passing the hat included June Hegadus, Kristen Miller,Nancy and Dick Trammel, Marsha and Dick Redlinger, Valerie Damon, Sabina Miller and Jackie and Arnold Lehman.
The Northwest Arkansas Children’s Shelter Starlight Charity Ball took a new turn this year and featured an Arkansas’ Got Talent contest, where those of us in the audience were able to vote on the winner.
Saxophonist Justin Hamby was the winner after a tie-breaker with guitar duo Daniel Parker and Wade Cunningham. Singer CeCe Plafcan also performed “At Last” for the competition.
The Oct. 24 event included live and silent auctions and brought in an estimated $125,000 for the shelter.
Executive Director Tim Nichols told us that the emergency residential shelter usually sees about 400 children a year, but by the end of this October was expected to have already seen at least that many.
Those voting on Arkansas talent included Susan and Mike Duke, Cathy and 3rd District Rep. John Boozman, Jennifer and Tom Stallbaumer, Joan and Ed Clifford, Tony Dunning, Nancy and Dick Trammel, Nicole and Scott Tassani and Melissa and Jeff Toliver.
Fayetteville Public Library drew a crowd Sunday evening as supporters lauded retiring director Louise Schaper.
During Louise’s 12-year tenure, the library moved in 2004 from the Roberta Fulbright Library on Dickson Street to become the Blair Library on Mountain Street.
The library won the National Library of the Year award in 2005.
Those wishing Louise well included Nancy and Jim Blair, Billie Starr, Lorraine Brewer, Karen Lewis and Warren McDonald, Denise and Hershey Garner, Beverly and Archie Schaffer, Patsy and Dan Ferritor, Marla and Dennis Hunt and Helen Lewis.
Denise and Hershey Garner opened their east Fayetteville home Thursdsay evening for a gathering of Arkansas Advocates supporters.
No rthwest Arkansas Director Laura Kellams told us the organization works to improve the lives of Arkansas children through public policy.
The Northwest Arkansas office has been open about a year and Laura told us the rate of poverty in our community is growing faster than our population. She said that though there is prosperity here, more children in Washington and Benton counties live inpoverty than in the Arkansas delta region.
Among those assisting Arkansas Advocates were Lynn Donald Carver, Susana O’Daniel, Nancy and Jim Blair, Elizabeth and Gerald Jordan, Jean and Jim Huffman, Kathy and Lowell Grisham, Dee and John Lea and Diana Gonzalez Worthen.
OUR TOWN COLUMNIST CARIN SCHOPPMEYER CAN BE REACHED BY E-MAILING CSCHOPPMEYER@NWAONLINE.NET OR BY PHONING 872-5049.
News, Pages 11 on 11/01/2009
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