Saturday Galabration benefits SMIP school

PLAINFIELD, IL - This year, St. Mary Immaculate School (SMIP) is featuring some notable auction items at its annual fundraiser, Galabration ’12: Diamonds & Denim, to benefit the school and its children.

Galabration ’12 is on Saturday, Feb. 11, from 6 to 11:30 p.m. at The Joliet Renaissance Center, 214 N. Ottawa St., Joliet.

Preferred dress is Denim & Bling. You can dress up or dress down, there are no rules, just lots of glitz and glamour.

Tickets cost $67.50 per person, which includes cocktails and substantial appetizers, dancing and admission to the auctions. For more information or to purchase your tickets visit www.galabration.org or email chairs@galabration.org.

The past 15 years, with the help of local and national patrons and sponsors, SMIP has raised funds to help each child attending the school.

In addition to the auction, the evening includes white-glove appetizer service, cocktails and dancing.

A benefit auction will feature both live and silent-auction items. Highlights of both auctions include seven night accommodations to a Caribbean resort and a Chicago Sports Fan Package.

• Instant Wine Cellar with Winery Tour and Tastings package

• Ultimate Golf Package with foursome at a number of local golf clubs

• Limited edition signed and numbered beautifully framed “Le Reve Bleu” by Claude Cambour print and much more.

About SMI School

St. Mary Immaculate Parish School is a grade school in Plainfield, IL that supports children from Preschool through the eighth grade with a unique approach to learning and encouraging students to achieve high potentials in the academic and daily life. The school provides an excellent academic environment and promotes a service oriented culture with school projects that include: raising food and funds for the Plainfield Interfaith Food Pantry;· raising funds for its sister school in Blantyre, Malawi, Africa for school supplies; participating in Feed My Starving Children in Aurora by hand-packing meals formulated specially for starving children that are shipped to nearly 70 countries around the world; raising money for Let’s Ace Leukemia (American Cancer Society); and other fine charity work which has empowered the SMI student body to make the right choices, teach them to respect themselves, others and their community, and will give the students the academic and service resources to face this ever changing and diverse world.