Southland Association director, Crystal Stites, faces a serious medical condition, and her friends are working on a dinner benefit to help raise funds for her medical treatment. Please take a look at the article published in Wednesday’s Herald-Leader below, which explains details.
A dinner benefit is being held in honor of Crystal Stites at the Oleika Temple, 326 Southland Drive, from 4 to 7 p.m., Sunday, Aug. 19. The dinner will be catered by Good Foods Market & Cafe and Chef Josh Moore. The menu will include roast chicken, yellow squash casserole, roasted potatoes, vegetable saute, and fruit cobbler. Live bluegrass music will be provided by Southland Jamboree bands performing between 4 to 6 p.m. Also included is a silent auction, as well as a raffle. Admission is $15. for adults, $5. for children younger than 16.
Buy tickets in advance at Good Foods Market & Cafe at 455 Southland Drive or by contacting Rebecca Lamb at (517) 862-6771 or rebalamb@gmail.com Tickets also will be available at the door.
All proceeds will go to pay for Stites’ medical bills. She was diagnosed with a pancreatic tumor in January 2007, and underwent surgery in April 2007. Surgery was unsuccessful and Crystal needs the help of her community to help pay for medical treatments.
I’ve had the pleasure of working closely with Crystal on various Southland Association community projects and events. Crystal, as an unpaid director, has always shared her talents and hard work in very unselfish ways. In spite of her serious medical condition, she continues her work as best she can. I’d like to encourage Southland Association members to try and help Crystal in her special time of need.
Some ways to help, would, of course, be to purchase tickets for the dinner benefit as outlined in the newspaper article. I’d also like to encourage our Southland Association merchants to consider giving a gift to be auctioned or raffled. For our members who are not merchants, please consider purchasing a gift certificate or item for the auction or raffle from Southland Association merchants. An example would be for commercial property owners, and service providers, to purchase gifts or gift certificates, such as $25.00 dinner certificates from our Southland Association member restaurants.
If anyone has any other ideas for helping Crystal at this time, please let me know. Many thanks for your kindness and generosity.
For additional information on Crystal’s condition, there is also an article in Ace Weekly with more details:
http://www.aceweekly.com/Cover_Story/Cover_Story/Cover_Story_-_Crystal_Clear.html
http://crystal.supermegawebsitego.com/
Phil Wyant
President
The Southland Association
P.O. Box 4756
Lexington, Ky 40544-4756
Ph: 276-4692
Fax: 276-0662
E-mail: pcwyant@aol.com