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Heartland Family Service ‘Carnival of Love’ Gala
JOHN JEANETTA, JENNY OLIVE, DONNA DOSTAL AND SHERI SHONKA
ANN KUTILEK, DANNA BARNHART AND NATALIE PETERSEN
About 540 guests took a stroll down the boardwalk for the Heartland Family Service “Carnival of Love” Gala at the Embassy Suites on Saturday, Feb. 13, helping to raise a record $264,000 to serve the most vulnerable children and families in our community. The previous record of $257,000 was set in 2013. Guests were transported to an ocean-side boardwalk carnival at the annual casual-attire event with “wooden” plank signs pointing the way to libations, appetizers of popcorn, mini-corn dogs and funnel cake fries, and several midway-style games — Wine Toss, Jump-Shot Basketball, and Hole-in-One Putt-Putt Challenge.
MARY LOU BRASEE, KARLA CASSELS AND MELANIE HECKER
SUZANNE AND DR. RUDY KOTULA
As Heartland Family Service’s largest fundraiser of the year, the “Carnival of Love” Gala helps create the path to a better tomorrow for the over 40,000 individuals the agency serves each year from more than 15 locations in east central Nebraska and southwest Iowa. Among the more than 50 programs that will receive financial support from the “Carnival of Love” are the Safe Haven domestic violence/sexual assault emergency and transitional shelter, Youth Links crisis center for teens in the juvenile justice system and the Ready in 5 kindergarten preparedness program for refugee children. For more Information: 402.553.3000 | HeartlandFamilyService.org
DAN AND CHRIS DENNELL WITH DAVE AND KRISTI EPPERSON
KEVIN COOK AND LENA FOYE
NIKKI ROGGE, ANNA KOTULA, MADELINE VOVK AND JANAN MANIVANNAN
KATI CANIGLIA, AMY COX, CANDI BABUTZKE AND JENNY OLIVE
CHRIS OLSON WITH JOHN AND CONNIE KINNEAR
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