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Still Tickets for Mayor’s 11th Annual Shamrock Ball at Garden Villas
There are still tickets to this year’s 11th Annual Mayors’ Shamrock Ball, scheduled for Saturday, March 3, from 6:30-10:30 p.m., which organizers anticipate to be the biggest and best one yet.
Garden Villas North, 4505 Parker Rd., has generously offered its beautiful facility again. In addition, five community mayors will be hosting this event which helps Valley Industries continue to provide meaningful employment for those with developmental disabilities.
“It’s truly a gratifying experience to walk through the production floor and watch Valley Industries’ workers man their stations and do the best of their abilities to keep the assembly line moving until the project is finished,” Hazelwood Mayor Matthew Robinson said.
“The Workshop provides these individuals with an opportunity to be gainfully employed and become contributing, tax-paying members of our community.”
V.I. employees Nick Wood and Barbara McNairy will be crowned as the King and Queen of the 11th Annual Mayors’ Shamrock Ball. Their first act of royalty will be to cut the official Mayors’ Shamrock Ball cake, which will be baked, decorated and donated by Helfer’s Pastries & Deli.
The Mayors’ Shamrock Ball is coming off a terrific year in the revenues raised for Valley Industries Sheltered Workshop, a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization based in Hazelwood. In 2017, the event netted Valley Industries about $40,843, which breaks the record set two years ago of $37,683. Seventy-three local companies and organizations participated as event sponsors and more than 430 individual tickets were sold.
Over the past decade, the Mayors’ Shamrock Ball has evolved into the St. Louis region’s premier formal “green tie” affair! With its Irish fare of fun, great food, and lively dance music, it has become the place to be and be seen with influential business leaders and elected officials.
With festive decorations, ice sculptures and mood lighting, elegant reception stations featuring popular restaurants and catering services will be scattered throughout the facility. These stations will be serving signature dishes, hors d’oeuvres, pastries and desserts for most of the evening.
Individual tickets are $125 and can be purchased online at www.valleyind.net There is a limit of 400 tickets available. Each guest will be treated to a full evening of great food, open bar, attendance prizes, super raffle drawings, and fun dance tunes.
TV’s Chief Meteorologist Craig Moeller enjoyed participating in last year’s program so much that he has agreed to be the program emcee for this year’s event. Since the first Mayors’ Shamrock Ball held 11 years ago, The Bob Kuban Band has stepped up to provide the dynamic, high-energy dance music at each of the annual fund-raisers.
Valley Industries first opened its doors for business on March 13, 1967, under the name of Florissant Valley Sheltered Workshop with only 15 employees. Today, the workshop serves almost 200 adults with disabilities in a 60,000 square-foot production facility in Hazelwood.
It specializes in contract packaging, kit building, shrink-wrapping, collating, assembly, inspections, and blister packaging. Valley Industries is both FDA-certified and ISO certified, committed to customer satisfaction through audited quality processes.
