Students from the Blackstone Valley Tech (BVT) Friends of Rachel Club and Culinary Arts program are once again hosting a series of fundraising dinners to benefit several charitable organizations. The monthly dinners are held in the student-run Three Seasons Restaurant located on the BVT campus at 65 Pleasant Street in Upton, MA.
Each all-you-can-eat dinner is held on a Thursday evening and consists of a themed buffet, dessert and beverage. The 2013-2014 Friends of Rachel Dinners will be held on:
Oct. 10: Italian dinner to benefit the Special Olympics
Nov. 14: Roasted Turkey dinner to benefit the Shiner’s Burn Unit
Dec. 12: Pot Roast dinner to benefit the Stuart Mowry Applebey Self Esteem Foundation
Jan. 09: Roast Pork dinner to benefit the My One Wish Foundation
Feb. 13: Oven Roasted Chicken dinner to benefit the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society
Mar. 20: Corned Beef & Cabbage dinner to benefit the Central New England Chapter of the National Multiple Sclerosis Society
April 17: Fish & Chips dinner to benefit Autism Speaks
May 08: Porketta dinner to benefit St. Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital
Proceeds will also benefit the Hole in the Wall Gang Camp, International Dyslexia Association, Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, Be Like Brit and the Friends of Rachel Scholarship.
Dinner prices are $14 for adults and $8 for children under 12. Dinner seatings are available every half hour from 5:00-6:30 p.m. Seats are limited and reservations are required. Call Dawn
Dubois at 508-529-7758, ext. 2143 to book your reservation.
The Friends of Rachel Club is a group of students who were inspired by a Rachel’s Challenge program presentation made at BVT during the 2010-11 school year. The program is named after
Rachel Scott, who was the first person killed during the horrific massacre at Columbine High School in 1999. Her acts of kindness and compassion coupled with the contents of her personal
diaries have become the foundation for the life-changing program which has had a profound effect on Valley Tech students. The Friends of Rachel Club formed as a means for the students
to perpetuate the program’s positive message by practicing random acts of kindness.
Blackstone Valley Regional Vocational Technical High School serves the towns of Bellingham, Blackstone, Douglas, Grafton, Hopedale, Mendon, Milford, Millbury, Millville, Northbridge,
Sutton, Upton and Uxbridge. The school’s website is http://www.valleytech.k12.ma.us.
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