LA PLATA, Md. – On Wednesday, July seventeenth, diners at native Italian eatery Rucci’s Italian Kitchen and Grille in White Plains, Maryland had been handled to enjoyable and festivities that introduced a number of distinguished native realtors and group members collectively to lift funds for Youngsters’s Nationwide Hospital.
The occasion was held from midday to eight:00 pm and featured food and drinks specials, a raffle with a number of prizes, and a 50/50 drawing. Organized by Re/Max One (La Plata, MD) brokers Lisa Wills and Sweet Meyers, the occasion is a part of a sequence of annual fundraising occasions organized by the duo relationship again to 2010.
In line with Ms. Wills, final 12 months the group was in a position to elevate $306,000 for Pediatric mind most cancers remedy efforts, and this occasion at Rucci’s on Wednesday was a part of their 2024 sequence of occasions. These ongoing efforts which the 2 realtors manage informally with their intensive connection of native enterprise contacts, are coordinated on a Fb group web page referred to as “Bears of Love“.
In line with Meyers, this 12 months’s raised funds will probably be used to assist the Pediatric Mind Most cancers/Oncology Division and the NICU at Youngsters’s Nationwide Hospital within the struggle in opposition to DIPG, a type of inoperable mind most cancers.
Ms. Wills, who has been with Re/Max since 2005, was fast to level out that lots of their enterprise contacts all all through Southern Maryland had been massive supporters as effectively. “A lot of our friends and contacts, together with many from Century 21 New Millennium are at all times very supportive of those fundraisers too.” mentioned Wills.
“The truth is, Rucci’s (the place the occasion was hosted on Wednesday) donates a proportion of gross sales from the day as effectively, and we should point out Mark Davis of Re/Max One for generously supporting our efforts” Wills continued.
Ms Meyers was fast to level out that there are extra “Bears of Love” occasions listed on their Fb web page arising, together with a sold-out occasion on the Mechanicsville Moose Lodge on August 16 referred to as “A Night time of Motown Magic”, in addition to a Golf Match scheduled for October 11. at White Plains Regional Park.
There have been two raffle drawing winners introduced at Wednesday’s occasion. The primary was Donna Retzlaff, who received the “Crabtastic” prize pack, which included a bushel of Maryland crabs, a Cheer-in Yeti Cooler, a Deluxe steam pot/crab cooker, amongst different helpful gadgets for a crab feast.
The second prize package deal, referred to as “Pink Palooza” was received by Sue Greer which included Seaside chairs, Lilly Pulitzer seashore towels, a floating bar, and every kind of equipment for a day of solar and enjoyable. There was additionally a 50/50 drawing at 8pm, the place Julie Luppino received $160, and her angle after profitable captured the spirit of the occasion, when she introduced instantly upon being handed the cash, that she was donating the complete quantity again to the fundraiser.
Within the wake of the profitable day, when requested how members of the group may greatest get entangled or assist, Ms. Meyers acknowledged that “we do that for the trigger, not for the applause, that is our motto. The perfect we may ask is for our neighbors and buddies to please take a look at our Fb group for Bears of Love, and unfold the phrase about our upcoming occasions.”
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