UPTON – 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 and causes. 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 following dates, themes, and charitable causes have been selected for the 2015-2016 series of fundraising dinners:
September 10 – Ham St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital
October 1 – Italian Special Olympics
November 12 – Roast Turkey Stuart Mowry Applebey Self Esteem Foundation
December 10 – Pot Roast Shriner’s Hospital
January 14 – Roast Pork My One Wish
February 11 – Oven Roasted Chicken Leukemia & Lymphoma Society
March 24 – Salisbury Steak Multiple Sclerosis
April 14 – Fish & Chips Autism Speaks
May 12 – Porketta Smile Train
Proceeds will also benefit the Hole in the Wall Gang Camp, International Dyslexia Association, Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, the Be Like Brit Foundation, and the Friends of Rachel Scholarship.
Tickets are $15 for adults and $8 for children under 12. Dinner seatings are scheduled 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 BVT Friends of Rachel Club was formed by a group of students who were inspired by a Rachel’s Challenge program presentation made 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.
UPTON DAILY 