Tickets now available for a night of Jazz

(Seguin) -- Not only will your Valentine’s Day weekend plans be covered, but the Seguin Sunrise Rotary Club is giving families a chance to make another hearty investment in some welldeserving students from Seguin and Navarro High Schools.

Tickets are still available for this year’s Scholarship Sweetheart Dinner and Dance. The fundraising event will be held from 6 to 9 p.m. Saturday at the Texas Agricultural Education & Heritage Center, better known as the Big Red Barn.

Sunrise Rotary member Dennis Clarkson says the party is an annual effort to have fun while raising some much-needed funds.

“February 11th and that’s a Saturday and you know what that is right before... Valentine’s day exactly and so that’s why we call it the Sweetheart Dance. So, you bring your sweetheart. You bring several sweethearts. We don’t have a problem with that, and you are going to be dancing and prancing and we’ve got all kinds of stuff going on. This jazz band is unbelievable out of Austin, and we’ve got dinner and we’ve got a silent auction. We’ve got it all going on that night and just come on out, bring the whole family and have fun. They’ll have a spot there for the little kids in the back and they can play their games and we are just going to have a great time,” said Clarkson.

Unveiling the events of that special evening is Rotary member Xavier Norton. Norton says this year’s events, especially the live music, will be unmatched.

“The Michael Hale Trio, they are actually one of the toprated residencies for live music in Austin and they are actually the only jazz band on the list and so they are coming here to Seguin to give us an entire set. It’s going to be absolutely amazing. It’s something you don’t want to miss and as Dennis was saying, we are encouraging families to come because we... Jazz, pg. 3