A Unique Charitable Benefit for the Center for Independent Living

Saturday, April 8, 2006 

 

This is not just your ordinary Hat Luncheon........ quite the contraire!  You just won't believe what these ladies will put on their heads!  From elegant Hats to the most outrageous hats you'll ever see......and all for a local charity!

The 6th Annual Ladies Luncheon & Fancy Hat Extravaganza" is here once again!  Each year ladies go all out!  No holds barred, they can get as outrageous as they want with their hat creations - and believe me, they do!  You laugh from the time you arrive until the time you leave - and this certainly breaks all the ice for introductions!

This event also includes a contest with categories such as' Most Original, Most Ornate, Best theme, Most Creative, Most Elegant, Most humorous, Most Authentic, Most Outrageous, Most Silly and Most Imaginative and now some ladies are even wearing cloths to match their theme hats.  Last year one of the contest winners had an enormous taco on her hat and it played the Mexican Hat Dance.  Another hat featured an entire picnic, including the black and red ants - of course!  And can you imagine some ladies saying they don't look good in a hat!  You won't find any of them here at this event!  Anything goes!  This is definitely a charity event where you can just let your creative juices run wild!

Each year, this event also features a charitable benefit for The Center for Independent Living, a 501 (c) (3) non-profit organization, that opened in July of 1994 as a charitable residential and day treatment facility.  The majority of the children living at The Center are teenagers who come from homes where they have been beaten and denigrated, physically and mentally abused, raped and tortured.  These young people usually have nowhere to go, no one to turn to.  The Center works tirelessly to try to make a difference in the lives of these young people, person to person, day by day.  It is not an easy task, making a difference in the life of a young person who has been hardened by experiences no one should ever know.  Not easy to do, but impossible to ignore!