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Mt. Prospect Plaza Charity Fairincreases funds and participationEach year Mount Prospect Plaza’sCharity Fair has grown in both number of participating organizations and in funds raised for he numerous philanthropic projects. This year’s Charity Fair, held at Mount Prospect Plaza, Rand and Central Rds., in Mount Prospect recently was no exception.This year, with 25 organizations participating in the Fair, total booth sales reached an all time high of $5,887.50 against last year’s total of $3,852.23 with 20 groups.First place for highest booth sales this year went to a newcomer participating in the Charity Fair for the firsttime. This $50 award was won bv the•»Regal Valiant Drum and Bugle Corp Parents Boosters Club with $928.20 insales.Second place and a $35 award was captured by N.W. Suburban League United Cerebral Palsy, who had been first place winners both previous years.New appointmentNan Duwe has been appointed Consumer Affairs Advisor for Turn-StvleFamily Centers, according to an announcement recently by D. L. Lewis, president of the Chicago based chain of self-service department stores.Formerly, general manager of Girls and Infants, and senior buyer for basic wearing apparel, she will be responsible in her new position for an ongoing review of products and services offered to customers by Turn-Stvle. In addition, she will become chairman of Turn-Style’s Consumerism Committee.a*:, l mt:_____*Their total sales this year were $666.29.In the running for the second year in a row were Marvville Volunteers who were awarded $15 for third highest salesof $573.22.Booth decorations this year were really tremendous. Judges, Dolores Hough, editor of the Mt. Prospct Times: C. O. Schlaver, executive secretary of Mount Prospect Chamber of Commerce: and Sam Kaplan, manager Jack’s Men’s Shop; had a difficult job in deciding on awards for decorations.First place trophy and $50 went to the Mount Prospect Jaycee Wives, 2nd place trophy and $35 to P.L.E.A.S.E.(Paretns League Established to Assist in Special Education) and third place trophy and $15 to Potawatomee District Campfire Girls.There were so many outstanding booth decorations that the Mount Prospect Plaza Merchants decided to give four additional $10 awards for Honorable Mention to the following: Nathan Goldblatt Cancer Research Fund, Northwest Suburban league United C erebral Palsy. Cadet-Girl Scouts # 361, and Regal Valiant Drum and Bugle Corp Parent Boosters Club.W'ith 14 groups vying for the CharityFair Queen title, competition was exceptionally keen, and a total of 361,329 votes were cast at a penny a vote, against last year’s total of 117.928 votes with 13 participants.The Charity Fair Queen Title was won by theRegal Valiant Drum and Bugle Corp Parent Boosters Club candidate Lvnn Jescke with 77,525 votes. Lvnnwas presented with a crown, trophy and bouquet of mums. First runner up and also a newcomer organization was Ben Levin Memorial for Retarded Children and their candidate Mickey Davis whose 66,150 votes won a trophy and bouquet.Second runner up and another newcomer as N.W. Suburban Topics for Combined Nurses Clubs, whose candidate Jill Ziske was presented with a Chrysanthemum bouquet for her 57,344 votes. Third runner up was Jeanette Schmeyer candidate for Nathan Goldblatt Cancer Research Fund with 56,888 votes. St. Stephen finished fourth runner-up with their candidate Gloria DiMaria having 32,919 votes.This year’s fair brought the addition of a new contest for Charitv Fair Princess into being, by popular demana of many youth orientated groups. Voting was also a penny a vote with the total votes cast being 94,744.Karla Pierce of P.L.E.A.S.E. ran awav with the title of Princess, a trophy and bouquet with 56.816 votes. First runner-up was JoEllen Heaver, of the Crippled Crows patrol Potawatomee District Campfire Girls with 10.000 votes. Seven organizations participated in this Princess contest.Adele Jesehke, promotion director of Mount Prospect Plaza, and co-ordinator of the Charitv Fair and itsQueen and Princess contests was extremely pleased with the growing results of the Charity Fair and statedthat this vear’s event exceeded bv farall her expectations with the total funds being raised by the twenty-five participating groups being $11,293.23. This sum was slightly more than double thatof last year.
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Wheeling Herald
Wheeling, Illinois, US
Mon, Jun 11, 1973
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