The Gingerbread Ball and Gingerbread House Competition

Contact: Kit Roache

kitroache@verizon.net, (732)788-4005

Annual Gingerbread Ball Benefiting Fisher House Foundation

Raising Funds to help Wounded Military & Veterans

Long Branch, NJ— Several community organizations are hosting their Annual Gingerbread Ball on Saturday December 2, 2017 from 6:00pm – 11:00pm at the beautifully renovated Ocean Place Resort and Spa, Long Branch. This premier holiday event will open with a social hour of delicious hors d’oeuvres followed by a lavish sit down dinner and open bar. Guests will enjoy Jersey Shore’s own Jazz Lobsters and dancing throughout the evening, along with holiday shopping at our auction tables. Add to the memories of this festive evening with a custom photo by Joe Sharp, and of course, enjoying the quaintly delicious Gingerbread Village Display, comprised of entries in our Gingerbread House Competition, and judged by the New Jersey Baker’s Board of Trade! Meet and greet our beautiful and talented, Miss New Jersey, Kaitlyn Shoeffel who just recently was third runner up in the Miss America Pageant 2017. Most significant, is that ALL funds raised benefit the programs of the Fisher House Foundation.

At the center of the evening, in honor of our beloved service men and women, General Carter F. Ham, President and CEO of the Association of the United States Army and Brian Gawne, Vice President of Fisher House Foundation will offer a tribute to our military heroes. Our National Anthem will be performed by NJ Shore Native, Taylor Tote, a promising up and coming artist, whose “Fighter” video was the official selection of the Garden State Film Festival 2017.

Fisher House Foundation is celebrating and commemorating 27 years of service to our military, veterans and their families, providing comfort homes for families of patients receiving medical care at major military and VA medical centers. The homes provide a “home away from home” so military and Veterans’ families canbe close to their loved ones during a medical crisis.

Today, there are 72 Fisher Houses across the country, in Germany and the United Kingdom. More than 305,000 families have been provided in excess of 7 million nights of lodging, saving them more than $350 million since the program began in 1990. Additionally, Fisher House Foundation’s Hero Miles program provides airline tickets that allows families to help heal together. More than $2 million in scholarships have been given to military and Veteran family members and the Foundation has sponsored national and international wounded warrior athletic competitions to celebrate the return to health of disabled military and Veterans.

“The Fisher House program history is dedicated to those we are privileged to serve – our nation’s military, Veterans and their families. Our service to them is a credit on a ledger we can never balance. We owe them literally more than we can ever repay,” said Ken Fisher, CEO and Chairman of The Fisher House Foundation. “But try we do. I remain humbled and awed every day by the generosity of those who have supported the Foundation. Because of their generosity, our military, Veterans and their families know the nation is there for them.”

For more information, to learn about sponsorship packages, contact Kit Roache at (732) 788-4005 or email:kitroache@verizon.net . Questions regarding the Gingerbread House Competition can be answered by, Yvonne Bova, 732-779-7111, yhbhomemail@gmail.com. Registration payments via PayPal, go to www.ausa.org/monmouth.

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