Saturday, February 12, 2011

Upcoming Fundraisers for Winneba Library Project

Morgan Rowe, the fabulous Fundraising Chair for the Charlottesville-Winneba Sister City Committee, has organized a series of benefit events to enable a delegation of Charlottesville residents to visit Winneba in May 2011 to assist in the planning of Winneba's first public library. Please join us for any or all of the below events -- it's a great opportunity to have fun, meet some cool new people and support a worthy cause in the process.

Monday, February 21: Corner Bar Crawl

$5 bracelets, available for sale at Three (1517 University Ave.) from 5:00pm onward on the night of the Crawl, make you eligible for the following specials:


Backyard: $2 rails, $3 pints
Littlejohn's: free 24-ounce soda with $5 purchase
Boylan Heights & Mellow Mushroom: $2 drafts, $5 double rails
Three: $2 rails, $2 Bud Lights
Virginian: $2 rails
Biltmore: TBD
Trinity: $8 pitchers of Bud Light/$10 imports; $4 Soco Lime shots


Monday, February 28: Orzo Benefit Dinner

$30 pre-set menu, $6 glasses of wine; 50% of proceeds, and $1 for each drink, benefit the Winneba Public Library Project
Reservations are limited; call 434-975-6796 (be sure to say "Cville-Winneba Group")


Thursday, March 3: Siips Celebrity Bartender Night

Siips Wine & Champagne Bar -- 5:30-7:30pm Happy Hour


and....

**THE MAIN EVENT**

Saturday, March 12: "Wine for Winneba" at the Main Street Arena

$50 tickets -- food, wine & beer, live music
Catered by Harvest Moon
100% of proceeds benefit Winneba Public Library Project

Sponsors include:
Main Street Arena
Virginia Eagle Distributing Co.
Student Services Moving & Storage Co.

For ticket info., please visit http://tinyurl.com/wineforwinneba


For more information on any of these events, please contact WineForWinneba@gmail.com.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Mayor Dave Norris discusses Charlottesville's involvement in the Sister Cities program on the current episode of Politics Matters, interviewed by Jan Paynter: http://bit.ly/polmatters