Dancing Under the Stars and Stripes

One thing I admire about you South Siders is your talent for raising money. It must come from all those years of attending Catholic schools selling raffle tickets and candy bars.

The Oak Lawn Rotary Club, led by the indefatigable Dr. Sandra Bury, has raised about half of the $100,000 needed for the 9/11 First Responders Monument that will be installed outside of the Oak Lawn Metra Station. The village acquired four beams from the fallen World Trade Center last December and has hired a world-class artist to design and build the sculpture.

Next Saturday, June 25, the Rotary Club is going to try an Oak Lawn first by holding a dinner dance on the roof of the Metra Station parking garage.

“Dancing Under the Stars and Stripes” features an elegant dinner by Palermo’s, open bar, a DJ and dancing with the City Lights Orchestra.

There’s still plenty of room on the roof. Even if you don’t go, you’ll probably hear the party.

Cocktails begin at 6 p.m., followed by the installation of new Rotary officers and then dinner at 7:30 p.m. at the Metra Station Parking Facility.

Tickets are $75 per person and can be purchased by calling John Zawaski at 708-259-5460.

Then come back again in July for the Oak Lawn Chamber of Commerce golf outing, where hundreds of golf balls will be dropped from a helicopter over Stony Creek Golf Course to raise even more money for 9/11 First Responders Monument. Whichever numbered ball falls into or comes closet to hole wins that lucky person $5,000. I definitely want to be there to see that.