Ruth Blencoe and her husband, George, pictured in a Vernon Winter Carnival contest photo. Ruth Blencoe died in a February car accident and George is hoping to revive one of her favourite events, the Christmas Lunch, by helping to organize a fundraising dance in her memory. Tickets for the dance are still available. (Morning Star - file photo)

Ruth Blencoe and her husband, George, pictured in a Vernon Winter Carnival contest photo. Ruth Blencoe died in a February car accident and George is hoping to revive one of her favourite events, the Christmas Lunch, by helping to organize a fundraising dance in her memory. Tickets for the dance are still available. (Morning Star - file photo)

Tickets still available for Vernon fundraising dance

Event held in memory of Ruth Blencoe to raise funds for revival of the Christmas Lunch event

  • Sep. 24, 2019 12:00 a.m.

Tickets are still available for a fundraising event being held in memory of a popular dance instructor.

The Dancing In The Moonlight country dance featuring Lee Dinwoodie is set for Saturday, Oct. 5, at the Schubert Centre. Doors will open at 7 p.m. and the dance begins at 8 p.m.

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The dance will help raise funds for the Blencoe Christmas Lunch, the favourite non-dancing event of local instructor Ruth Blencoe, also a former Kindale Developmental Association employee, who was killed in a car accident in February.

The Christmas Lunch was a catered feast held annually at the Vernon Recreation Complex. Blencoe’s widower, George, said his wife loved seeing the joy that the celebration brought to a segment of the population in the community often forgotten at Christmas.

George hopes to bring the event back as the Blencoe Christmas Lunch.

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The dance will help raise funds for the lunch.

Tickets are $30 in advance from Bannister Honda, White House Mortgages and the Schubert Centre. The price for tickets at the door will be $40.


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