It’s Yacht Party 2 Mexican Riviera beginning at 5 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 8, at Amador Live, 302 S. Main St., as Dress the Child of Las Cruces celebrates its 37th year of raising funds to buy new clothes and shoes for children in need.
Tickets are $100 and are available in advance and at the door with reservations.
Hilary Floren, the long-time host of KVIA-TV’s Good Morning El Paso, will return for a second consecutive year as the event’s emcee. DJ Neo Kid will play music from a variety of musical genres.
“We encourage everyone to buy tickets in advance, because last year’s dinner, our first with a yacht-party theme at Amador Live, sold out,” said long-time Dress the Child coordinator Doug Boberg.
All proceeds from the dinner go to the Dress the Child program, which has provided new clothes and shoes for thousands of local children in need.
Here is the dinner menu, with the name of the food station followed by the dish:
• Ensanada: Shrimp with chimichurri sauce, prepared by Grapevine Plaza and Event Center Chef Vince Campbell, who is also Dress the Child’s food coordinator;
• Caba San Lucas: Paella de Marsicos, prepared by Amador Bar and Grill Executive Chef Enrique Hernandez;
• Manzanillo: Salbutes, Yucatan tacos with shredded turkey, prepared by Tom Drake, chef and culinary arts director for Doña Ana Community College (DACC);
• Acapulco: Cochinita pibil, seasoned pork roasted in banana leaves served with radish salsa, prepared by D.H. Lescombes Winery and Bistro Executive Chef Garrett Moore;
• Puerto Vallarta: marinated tri-tip with papaya chutney, prepared by MountainView Regional Medical Center Executive Chef and Food Service Director Paul McKim;
• Puerto Escondido: Pila’n verde pork tacos, slow-roasted pork with mole verde and cojita cheese, prepared by Hacienda de Mesilla Executive Chef Cecelia Castro;
• Huatulco: Pollo al Ajillo, white wine and garlic chicken, prepared by Salud de Mesilla Chef/owner Russell Hernandez;
• Mazatlán: Coconut mango penna cotta and assorted chocolate truffles, prepared by Doña Ana Community College cake and patisserie instructor Jenn Hart.
Dinner sponsors include Citizens Bank, Household Furniture, Mynatt Springer P.C. and Conterra Networks, with support from Amador Live and Del Valle Design and Imaging. Students from Centennial High School’s Family, Career and Community Leaders of America program and student government, supervised by Carleigh Salmon, Megan Romig and Melanie Stuart, will be servers. Students from DACC’s Culinary Arts Program will assist the chefs. Table decorations are provided by Jan and Giuseppe Portillo, Jamie and Jake Painter and Anne Clark.
New at this year’s dinner is a Giving Tree. A miniature Christmas tree set up inside the Amador will have ornaments made by students in Annie Lisak’s Tombaugh Elementary School art classes. Each ornament will have the name of the child who made it and a suggested dollar amount. The donor will present the ornament and donation during the dinner, Boberg said.
Dinner ticket sales will be a major contributor to the Dress the Child program’s $70,000 goal for 2023, Boberg said. Children selected to participate in the program by Las Cruces Public Schools and Gadsden Independent School District will be taken on shopping trips to Old Navy in November and Kohl’s in December.
Dress the Child is a project of the Rio Grande Rotary Club Foundation. To purchase tickets, visit www.dressthechildlc.org and click on “MORE” and “ANNUAL FUNDRAISING DINNER.” Also visit Dress the Child Las Cruces on Facebook.
To donate to Dress the Child, send a check to Las Cruces Rio Grande Rotary Foundation, ATTN: Loren Kuehne, 3265 Arrowhead Road, Suite 200, Las Cruces, NM 88011.
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