Festival Dinner/Dance A Big Success 

 

The Dinner and Dance that took place at the Brazil Elk’s Club on 04 August 2007 was a great success.  The hosts, servers, bus people, and chefs were all dressed in black slacks, black tuxedo bow ties, white shirts, and red name tags; reminiscent of an Italian Ristorante with a bowtie flair that even Orville Redenbacher would have approved himself. The formal attire set the formal mood of this event.   It also gave the event an air of formality but the customers loved the dress casual or casual wear.  It was also an honor to have Pam and Jim Bertoli join us.  Ms. Bertoli is the granddaughter of Orville Redenbacher.  The customers could not say enough good things about this event and the members felt we had the best customers ever and it was them that made it a success.   
 

The entrees of Italian Beef and Marinated Chicken Breasts were prepared by Evelyn Brown and Janice Cox with the desserts and homemade yeast rolls made by Mary Fisher of Goodies Galore. Customers liked the difficulty in choosing desserts when they had to choose from Hummingbird Cake, Black Forest Cake, Italian Cream Cake, and Cocoanut Cream Pie. 
 

The evening was topped off with a dance on the upper level with Hardey’s Hot Sounds DJ Services and not one time did they stop playing music unless we had to make an introduction, presentation, or announcement.  They even treated us to additional songs past their stop time.  The customers liked the additional songs. 
 

Once gain, it was the customers who came and the members of the Festival were fabulous to come and help out where needed.  The Festival Committee also had a great time and worked like a well-oiled machine to make the evening as wonderful as it was.  A group of eight people from Linton, IN drove up to this occasion as well as the Brazil and Van Buren High School Reunion Class of 1977 came over to join us for fun as well.  We also want to thank Tom McClanahan from WTWO who joined us for dinner and dance.   
 

And we could not have done without those people who came to support the Popcorn Festival’s goal to buy handicapped equipment for Forest Park.  We send special thanks to RJ’s Formal Wear who loaned us the black tuxedo bow ties.  To all, we thank you most sincerely.