Riverside to hold Octoberfest fundraiser Oct. 4th

News Release
Riverside Foundation

The beer will be flowing and the fun will be brewing at Riverside Foundation for Health Care’s Oktoberfest party on Saturday, October 4th at the Memorial Sports Centre – Auditorium.
Tickets are on sale now for thirty dollars each! Tickets include dinner, which will be an assortment of German and Bavarian cuisine and a mouth-watering German chocolate & dessert bar. There will also be entertainment provided by the Mud Lake City Oompa Band!!!
Gold, silver and bronze sponsored tables are also available for $1,500, $1,000 and $500 respectively. Sponsors will receive reserved tables/seating and festival game packs.
Festival games include Ring Around the Rosé, a Beer Cap Toss and Poker Showdown. You can also test your luck at Spin to Win.
Labatt Brewing Co. will be sponsoring the Alexander Keith Stein Holding Contest, where contestants can test their endurance holding a stein full of beer. Prizes will be awarded!
This is Riverside Foundation for Health Care’s 11th Annual Fundraising Event. It has historically been held in February/March but this year is being changed to the fall.
“We decided to try a new time of year”, explained Teresa Hazel, Foundation Director.
“February/March was getting pretty busy with fundraising events, shows and holidays. An Oktoberfest party just seemed to work well in October!” she chuckled.
Joan Allison, who chairs the Special Events committee, hopes the community will support this new endeavour.
“The community has been very good to us over the past ten years...we hope that same spirit of support will continue”, she said.
Anyone who would like to donate a gift for the penny table, silent auction item or prizes for the festival games are encouraged to call the Foundation Office at 274-4803 or Allison at 274-9484.
Oktoberfest tickets can be purchased at Cousineau Brokers Ltd., 364 Store, Emo Health Centre, Rainy River Health Centre, La Verendrye Hospital or by calling 274-4803.