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For more information contact: Christine Todd

Phone: (414) 281-6358

                                  ZONTA CLUB OF MILWAUKEE’S

                   “A TRIBUTE TO MOTHERS…A FAMILY AFFAIR”

                                    FASHION SHOW/FUNDRAISER 

                                            Saturday, April 21, 2007

Milwaukee, Wisconsin, January 26, 2007…

zontamilwaukee@hotmail.com 

The Zonta Club of Milwaukee and its Foundation will present its 2007 Fashion Show/Fundraiser on Saturday, April 21, 2007 at the Italian Community Center.  Our theme is “A Tribute to Mothers…A Family Affair.”  Plan to come and enjoy the latest in women’s Spring fashions by Talbots and men’s wear by Bachrach at Mayfair. 

Come for the reception, raffles, and silent auction beginning at 10:30 A.M.  A few items to get your bidding juices flowing include:  An area flight with an experienced pilot in his Cirrus plane, an autographed baseball by a popular Milwaukee Brewer, a passport to WI that includes restaurant certificates en route to a 2-night stay in a Bayfield B&B and cruise around the Apostle Islands, chances to enjoy many of Milwaukee’s great 2007 events, join in a cooking class with an expert chef, wine and dine at one of our best area restaurants, try for a basket of wines, beauty products, special facials, and more for the entire family.  A delicious luncheon will be followed by the fashion show, raffles and special prizes.

Tickets are $50 per person, and $400 for a table of 8.  Tickets will not be sold at the door. Reservations are required by Sunday, April 1, 2007.  Contact us for more information and we will respond with an invitation to this special Spring event!

In 2007, Zonta will continue to support financially with Fashion Show proceeds the Zonta International global service projects as well as several local service projects initiated in 2005 and supported in 2006: 

-         Mental Health Association in Milwaukee County Invisible Children’s Program

-         Meta House “Seeking Safety”

-         Our Next Generation, Inc. Homework Club

We will also continue support of a past agency but with a new project:

-         Milwaukee Women’s Center Older Abused Women’s Program

The Zonta Foundation also supports several local scholarships for young women, also initiated in 2005:

-         Young Women in Public Affairs Award

-          Jane Klausman Women in Business Award

-          Technical Speciality Award—Just renamed the “Ernestine O’Bee Scholarship Award” for our

           long-standing Zonta Club member of 44 years who passed away in January 2007.

-          Women in Science Award

For the past 81 years, the Zonta Club of Milwaukee has been fundraising and actively volunteering service to support more than 50 charitable organizations in the southeastern Wisconsin area that benefit women and children.

Zonta International, with world headquarters in Chicago, IL, USA, and 1,240 clubs in 68 countries, is a worldwide service organization of executives in business and the professions working together to advance the status of women.  Zonta International programs supported by the Milwaukee club scholarships in aerospace/engineering,  public service, and business; Zonta International Strategies to address Violence Against Women (ZISVAW), and service projects in Niger (HIV/AIDS), Afghanistan (access to education and health care), Bolivia (literacy, health education and life skills development for working girls and young women), and Sri Lanka (women’s economic self-sufficiency post-tsunami).

For more information about Zonta, please contact us at zontamilwaukee@hotmail.com