Last month the students and staff at Hardin Park School collected
travel-size shampoo, lotion, toothpaste and toothbrushes and donated
them to Hospitality House (see photo). Each month the school’s
Coffee Talk program selects a nonprofit to support, and Hospitality
House was chosen for March.
Local restaurants serve up $35,000 for Hospitality House
Despite frigid, snowy weather conditions, community members came
out in force on April 15 to participate in the 2009 Celebrity
Serve.
Proceeds from this year’s event were awarded to Hospitality
House Combined Campaign.
The campaign has reached 77 percent of the $3 million goal to
build and operate a new shelter in the High Country.
An estimated $35,000 was raised in restaurant revenues, tips,
individual gifts and raffle ticket sales.
The funds will be combined with money raised from the Hearts of
Hospitality Valentine’s Ball for a total donation of $75,000
to the campaign.
These funds will be used to build the commercial kitchen in the
new shelter.
Hearts of Hospitality, a group of volunteers, partnered with Celebrity
Serve committee members to make the event a success.
”We are grateful to the committee for choosing Hospitality
House as the recipient of the funds from this year’s event,”
said Ann Spinetto, Hospitality House board member.
“Numerous restaurants, church groups and individuals in our
community came together to make this event a success,” Spinetto
said. “We are excited to be able to contribute to the new
shelter in this way.”
2009 participating restaurants included; Bandana’s, Beef
“O” Brady’s, Bistro, Blimpies, Capone’s, Casa
Rustica, Char, Chetola’s Manor House, Chick-fil-A, Gadabouts,
Glidewell’s, Los Arcoiris, Makato’s, Mast Farm Inn,
Mr. Original Gyro, Peddler, Pepper’s, Red Onion, Six Pence
Pub, Sledgehammer Charlie’s, Storie Street Grille, Sunrise
Grill, Troy’s 105 Diner, and Woodland’s BBQ. The Grandview
Restaurant of Foscoe also sent in a contribution.
Area church leaders and members added to the success of Celebrity
Serve by selling raffle tickets, volunteering as “celebrity”
servers and filling restaurants with enthusiastic congregations.
Participating churches included; Boone United Methodist, Deerfield
United Methodist, Faithbridge United Methodist, First Baptist
Blowing Rock, Grace Lutheran, Holy Cross Episcopal, High Country
Church of Christ, Mt. Calvary Baptist Banner Elk, Mt. Vernon Baptist,
Oak Grove Baptist, Perkinsville Baptist, Rumple Presbyterian,
St. Elizabeth Catholic, St. Luke’s Episcopal, St. Mary’s
Episcopal, and the Unitarian Fellowship of Boone.
Area businesses were incredibly generous, offering donations of
more than $6,000 in products and services for the raffle, a spokesperson
for the event said. Five baskets were raffled along with a $250
cash award.
Hearts of Hospitality would also like to recognize the support
from Kappa Delta sorority for its assistance with Celebrity Serve,
the spokesperson said.
Hospitality House is a nonprofit crisis intervention program that
provides shelter and services to the homeless, operates the community
soup kitchen and administers WeCAN — the local crisis assistance
program.
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