Breast Cancer Support Group Alabama

Swinging Stars Benefit

Oxford Civic Center, Saturday, August 5, was the location for the swinging Stars Square Dance Club benefit for Steel Magnolias. Visiting square dance clubs, from several other cities, joined the Anniston group in this fun evening. These generous square dancers, in their colorful costumes, moved across the dance as instructed by callers who traveled from Georgia for this event. Entry fee was $6 for dancers and $3 for non-dancers. Everyone buying a ticket was eligible to win a door prize and was invited to eat a great dinner. Activities were a cake walk and
silent auction, with opportunity to buy raffle tickets for a chance to win a US Savings Bond, a beautiful square dance costume and a split the pot drawing. Three savings bonds were given away, a winner was named for the beautiful costume and the lady who won the STP drawing, donated the money back to Steel Magnolias. Door prizes were given away and winners in the silent auction were named. At the end of the evening, $2,659 was raised. Because of the generosity of the Swinging Stars, the Steel Magnolias Dining Voucher Program can, in all three Calhoun County hospitals, be expanded to include all internal cancers. Steel Magnolias, from the bottom of our hearts, thank Swinging Stars for the months of hard work that went into this benefit. We are so blessed to have Swinging Stars, Margaret and Jimmy Taylor, from Heflin, as part of the Steel Magnolias family. Almost twenty Steel Magnolias were available to help the Swinging Stars in whatever way possible.