Dancing for Our Stars - Baddour Center

First Choice Catering presents


Dancing for Our Stars

benefiting The Baddour Center

Get ready to shake it up and support your favorite dance duo as they compete against each other to help a great cause. Visit www.dancingforourstars.com and vote (each vote is $1) for your favorites. Voting continues the night of the event. The Baddour Center is a residential community for adults with intellectual disabilities where individual potential is defined by character and God-given talent, not by limitations. A special feature of the evening will be a dance performance by a Baddour resident dance duo.
 

Trophies will be given for Overall Winner, Crowd’s Choice and Best Dance.

Press Release: 
Media stars, a mayor and other prominent community leaders are coming together for The Baddour Center’s first-ever Dancing For Our Stars fundraiser on Thursday, February 26, 2015.  Modeled after the popular television show, Dancing With the Stars, the event pairs seasoned dancers with community leader “celebrities” for a competition to benefit The Baddour Center, a residential community for adults with intellectual disabilities.  Dinner and drinks will be at 6 p.m. with the program beginning at 7 p.m. at First Choice Catering, 5905 Scott Blvd. in Horn Lake, Miss. First Choice Catering is also the presenting sponsor.  The DeSoto Times and CLICK magazine and Anton Realty and Appraisals, Inc. are also sponsors.

“This type of event has been successful in other cities,” said Ruth Ann Hale, director of development and public relations at The Baddour Center. “We want everyone to vote for their favorites.” 

Voting is open now at www.dancingforourstars.com for $1 per vote, and voting will also take place at the event.  Sponsorship opportunities are also available. Hale said she hopes this will become an annual event.

Professional dancers from the area are being paired with celebrity dancers.  The dance duos will be:

1. Joe Birch of WMC-TV with Paula Wyatt
2. Kendall Kirkham of WMC-TV with Jim Frommel
3. Hernando, Miss. Mayor Chip Johnson with Cat Woods
4. Jim Eikner of WKNO with Jane Riggen
5. John Woods of First Choice Catering with Jill Morris
6. Katharine Klunk of Varsity Spirit with Benji Smith
7. Michelle Barker Ford of The Cleaning Crew in Hernando with Ed Preston, and
8. Bill Haley , formerly of The Baddour Center, with Judy Cole

Emcees: Betty Ann Hurt Strain and

News Channel 3’s Todd Demers

Sponsorships remain available.  Please contact Ruth Ann Hale at 662-366-6929 or email rhale@baddour.org for form.