NCOAC Chair-ity event Sept. 26

TONKAWA — Tickets are on sale for The North Central Oklahoma Arts Council’s 6th Anniversary Chair-ity Event to be held at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 26 at the Tonkawa Casino Pool.

The special guest is musical ambassador Kyle Dillingham of Oklahoma City. It will be his third time to appear at the Chair-ity Event.

Tickets are $40 and are available at Frames and Things and First National Bank in Tonkawa and Ponca City.

The annual event raises funds for arts grants in North Central Oklahoma within 30 miles of Tonkawa and Northern Oklahoma College students.

A Silent Auction will be held at the event as well as Themed Baskets for sale.

Auction items include the following:

• A Night on the Town in Enid — Overnight stay, two Gaslight Theatre tickets, $40 Costello’s Continental Cuisine Gift Certificate.
• An OSU package includes two football tickets to the OSU-TCU game on Nov. 2.
• Branson, MO package over Fall Break.  Three nights Oct. 17-19 at Wyndham Mountain Vista (3 bedroom suite) Bourbon / $50 Visa Card.
• NYE / NYC package includes Southwest Airline Airfare, 4 nights Dec. 30 – Jan. 3 Wyndham Mid Town 4, 1 bedroom suite with living room & kitchen, (in Manhattan, about 2 blocks from Times Square), I heart NY wine glasses & cinch bag, wine, laminated site map, art museum passes to MOMA, the Met, & Guggenheim, $50 visa card.
• Hand woven rag basket, hand woven rag wine bottle holder, wine, farm house style picture frame, farm house style vase w/ small flower arrangement, hand painted image of pumpkin, faux style wooden candles, and ornamental resin pumpkin.
• Two Pillows of chair decorated fabric.
• A barn quilt.
•  Civic Center Music Hall, 2 tickets to The SpongeBob Musical, in November.
• Chairs donated for our musical chairs game. A porch rocker from Tractor Supply, and an accent chair from Smith Home Furnishing – both Ponca City Stores.
• Over 30 small varied size square paintings, photographs, or other art of chair images.
• An actual chair painted to represent Matisse’s painting Harmony in Red, anonymous artist.

The Donor List includes First National Bank, Visit Enid, Tractor Supply, Smith Home Furnishings, Bill & Katrina Erwin, Mike & Kim Loftis, Theresa McIninch, Jena Kodesh, Dianne Braden, Cecelia Tarrant, James Oxford, and Marilynn Patton.

Various Artists include Louise Rigdon, Dianne Braden, Melinda Glasgow, Irene Ackerson, Gene Dougherty, Val Buss, Jo Decker, Cheryl Swanson, Linda Strong, Pam Gilbreath, Charla Enns, Frances Williams, Jena Kodesh, Dawn Huff, Holly Peart, Brad Matson, Hope Bradford, Addy Harmon, Ashlyn Cantrell, Betty Bowen Hancock, and many others.

A Heavy Hors D ‘Oeuvres Buffet will be available with a Cash Bar.

For additional information, call 628-3400.

The casino is located at I-35 and Highway 60 west of Tonkawa.