'Margaritaville' Event Benefits Valley View Educational Enrichment

Tickets are still available for the March 10 Valley View Educational Enrichment Foundation fundraising dinner which will feature an auction with many amazing items, including a rare commodity: extra tickets for the always jam-packed graduation ceremonies at Romeoville and Bolingbrook high schools as well as all five VVSD middle schools.

Other auction items include passes to Walt Disney World, tickets to the Jimmy Buffet concert at Wrigley Field, Cubs and White Sox tickets, a Cubs replica World Series ring, a Petland birthday party package, a Rocket Ice birthday party package, golf outings, restaurant gift cards and spirit wear from VVSD schools.
The theme for 6 to 10 p.m. event, which will be held at Bolingbrook Golf Club, is “Margaritaville” which means casual dress, including your favorite Hawaiian shirt or hula skirt, is the order of the evening.

For $55 (if registered and paid by March 3), attendees will enjoy the silent auction, raffles, games, prizes, and a tropical-inspired dinner that includes either grilled pineapple pork medallions with saffron rice and a vegetable kabob; crab cakes with Asian slaw, saffron rice and veggie kabob; or grilled eggplant with a mango chutney, saffron rice and veggie kabab. Meal selection is due at the time of registration. The cost of tickets goes up to $65 after March 3.

Register online here.

The annual dinner is the major fundraising and recognition event for the Foundation.

Since 1994, more than 600,000 VVSD students have benefited from the programs designed by district staff and funded by the Foundation. In 22 years, the Foundation has awarded 752 grants totaling $1.3 million.

Submitted by Valley View School District