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Starry Night Silent Auction and Dinner Dance

What is it?
Starry Night is the school's bi-annual fundraiser, featuring a dinner, dance, live and silent auction. The event supports Blessed Sacrament's annual operating costs such as extracurricular activities, athletic fees, and school trips, as well as significant expenditures such as the recent netbook and Smartboard purchases.

The fundraiser will take place on Friday March 30, 2012 at the Sutton Place's rooftop lounge, Stop 33. Cocktails will start at 6:30pm.

The evening promises to be lots of fun: a four course meal with old and new friends, a spectacular silent and live auction hosted by a professional auctioneer and dancing and music hosted by the Magen Boys. Stay tuned for more information!

Rooms are available at the Sutton Place at a discounted rate starting at $130 per night - 10% of that rate will go back to support our school. Room rates are guaranteed until March 15, 2012. Call 416-924-9221 to reserve your room and quote "Blessed Sacrament School" when you book.

Ticket Information

Thank you to everyone who purchased their tickets to Starry Night last week. Due to your overwhelming enthusiasm and support, there are very few tickets remaining. If you still wish to purchase tickets at $90 per person, please email us at starrynightticketsales@gmail.com as soon as possible. The remaining tickets will be sold first come first served via email. Unfortunately we have limited capacity at the venue (200 people) so our numbers are set.
We will, however, be starting a wait list; please email us at any time to be put on the list.

If you are a ticketholder and discover at any time that are unable to attend, please let us know ASAP so someone else may go in your place.

Those who have reserved a table for 10 in advance have a guaranteed table; all other guests seat themselves upon arrival. Incomplete tables cannot be reserved in advance, but will give everyone the chance to meet new friends.

Class Basket

New this year! Monetary donations will be collected to purchase items for themed class baskets. Donations will be collected during the parent-teacher interview on Thursday February 16th from 4 to 7pm and Friday February 17th from 9am to noon. Or donations can be sent to the school from Thursday February 16th to Wednesday February 29th; please place your donation in an envelope labeled with your child's name and your child's teacher's name.

If you have any questions about the class baskets, please contact Kathy O'Handley at ohandleyk@rogers.com.

Donations

Items such as electronics, new household items, professional services such as spas and salons, golf experiences, travel experiences (hotel/cottage stays or points of interest), and one of a kind experiences (such as a backstage tour or personal meeting with a local personality).

If you have any contacts or items to donate, please contact Greg Prince at gregory.n.prince@ca.pwc.com.

How can I help?

Events like this are only successful when people are generous in different ways, and today we begin asking for your help. Here are all the ways you'll be asked to consider helping the school between now and March 30:

  1. By contributing items to the Silent & Live Auction. The auction needs items of all sizes such as electronics, new household items, professional services (spa, salons), golf experiences, travel (points or hotel/cottage stays), and one of a kind experiences such as a backstage tour or personal meeting with a local personality. Please consider your own personal networks…what can you contribute? Who do you know who could help? We are collecting items now: contact Greg Prince at gregory.n.prince@ca.pwc.com with your contribution.
  2. By contributing money for the Class Basket Committee to purchase items for baskets to sell at the Auction (the Committee puts together 1 themed basket for each class).
  3. By purchasing a ticket to the 50/50 raffle. The draw will be held at the event but $5 raffle tickets can be purchased in advance. Stay tuned for more info about the draw.

Gala Committee

The gala Chair is Lisa Carroll; the following are gala co-coordinators:

  • Siobhan Donnelley – Venue
  • Maureen Leon – Tickets
  • Kathy O’Handley – Baskets
  • Greg Prince – Auction
  • Jennifer Bizzarri – Communications

Many volunteers are needed to run an event of this size and scope. We are still looking for parent help in the following areas:

  • March 25/26th to help package the baskets
  • Ticket sales shifts
  • Donation of auction items, especially those that are an “experience” such as skiing, cottage, concert etc.

More information will follow.

More Information

We are a small, close knit community and we will all count on each other to make this a terrific event. We hope this helps set the stage for a great event, and that we can count on your support in one or more of the ways listed above!

If you have any questions, email the event chair, Lisa Carroll at lisa.carroll@cgi.com or contact csac@blessedsacramentcs.com anytime.