Eat, dance, tour and support A Night for the Nest

July 5, 2011 thenestlexington

We’re almost ready to begin the countdown! Since the cold days of winter the Board of Directors and Staff at The Nest Center for Women, Children & Families have been pooling ideas and energy to plan a fun-filled celebration for our annual Night for the Nest. This year’s evening will be August 6 at beautiful Normandy Farm on Paris Pike, 7 p.m. to 11 p.m.

Besides giving us an opportunity to celebrate all of the people who support us through donations and volunteering, the event also provides attendees a chance to tour beautiful Normandy Farm. Honorary event hostess and board member Nancy Polk says guests will see the farm’s equine graveyard with a full-size statue of Man o’ War’s sire Fair Play, who, along with Man O’ War’s dam Mahubah, is buried here. Elsewhere on the 262-acres Thoroughbred breeding farm, the Normandy barn is fashioned after the French style of Normandy, France with a tower and porcelain figures atop the structure for good luck. There are bird figures and even cats who appear to be playing. Viewers of the movie “Seabiscuit” saw the barn used in that film as the stable at Pimlico for War Admiral.

The event itself will be held in the courtyard of the U-barn. Farm tours will be available during A Night for the Nest. There will also be drinks, hors d’oeuvres, cash bar, silent auction, Caribbean vacation raffle and entertainment from the band, Catch 22. The band features Fred Siegelman, mayor of Versailles, and five other talented Central Kentucky musicians. The band plays classic rock and rhythm and blues, including covers of tunes by Bob Seger, Eric Clapton, Bruce Springsteen, Zac Brown Band, The Fabulous Thunderbirds and many more.

Event tickets are $75 per person or $500 for a table for eight. Vacation raffle tickets are $25 each and only 500 will be sold. Breeze Financial is sponsoring the raffle which includes one week in the Caribbean plus airfare up to $1,000. The total prize value is $4,600.

Event sponsors this year include Austin Mehr Law Office and Toyota Motor Manufacturing of Georgetown. Proceeds from this event support the work we do daily with families. The Nest—Center for Women, Children and Families is a nonprofit Lexington, Kentucky-based social service agency that provides a safe, accessible and healing environment for children, while developing the strength and self-sufficiency of women and families through education, support, counseling and advocacy.

For ticket information, please call (859) 259-1974 ext. 34 or visit the website at www.thenestlexington.org/donatenow.php.

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