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NEWS RELEASE For release Jan. 18, 2008
Heritage Dinner features roast beef
for Southampton's 150th anniversary
Southampton, Ont., Jan. 18, 2008 -- A roast beef dinner, musical entertainment, prizes and draws will make for an exciting evening at the Curling Club in Southampton on Saturday, Feb. 16. Social hour starts at 5:30 and dinner at 6:30.
Tickets ($25 per person) are available at Bayberry's, Escape Ladies' Wear, Hills Insurance and Vincent Jewellers. It's a licensed event.
This year the annual Heritage Dinner is also a Southampton 150th Anniversary fundraiser ... just one of the events marking 150 years since Southampton was incorporated as a village, on July 24, 1858.
The roast beef dinner will be prepared by Mary Ellen Harrigan of Harrigan's Red & White, helped by a host of volunteers armed with vegetable peelers. A birthday cake is not forgotten, and it will have to be enormous if it is to hold 150 candles.
Plan on a fun evening including music by Marian Ramsdale, door prizes and a 50/50 draw. Door prizes include souvenir 150th anniversary T-shirts and caps donated by Logan's on High Street.
The Heritage Roast Beef Dinner is a great opportunity to pick up 2008 souvenirs -- 150th anniversary buttons, Southampton flags, and Southampton, Then and Now calendars. Plus you'll have a chance to get raffle tickets for the Rotary Club's 150th Anniversary Quilt -- they're $2 each, 3 for $5 or 10 for $10.
150th Anniversary events are listed at www.familyhelper.net/150/events.html.
For more information, contact Shirley Irwin, 797-5610, or visit Southampton's 150th Anniversary, www.saugeenshores.ca/southampton150.
For all news releases, see www.familyhelper.net/150/news
For a complete list of 150th anniversary events, pick up the Events Flyer at the Chamber of Commerce and at various locations around Southampton, or see www.familyhelper.net/150/events.html
2008 marks 150 years since Southampton was incorporated as a village on July 24, 1858. For more about Southampton's 150th Anniversary, see www.saugeenshores.ca/southampton150
See the summary of 150 years of Southampton history (1816 to 1993) at www.familyhelper.net/150/historydates.html
The Southampton, Then and Now calendar is available at selected locations, listed at www.familyhelper.net/150/calendar.html. Proceeds support the 150th anniversary celebrations.
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The Southampton 150th Anniversary Committee is a sub-committee of the Saugeen Shores Chamber of Commerce. As a steering committee, it works closely with local groups and organizations, which also run their own 150th anniversary events along with their regular programming.
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