GALA BENEFITS SPECIAL OLYMPICS
UW-PARKSIDE STUDENT NURSE GALA BENEFITS SPECIAL OLYMPICS – APRIL 24
Student nurses at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside will host a charity gala Saturday, April 24, to benefit southeastern Wisconsin Special Olympics. The 4th annual event, sponsored by the Student Nurses Association at Parkside (SNAP), begins at 5:30 p.m. at Marina Shores, located at 302 58th St. in Kenosha.
“SNAP chose Special Olympics because it provides sports training and competition for nearly 10,000 athletes with cognitive disabilities in 18 different sports year-round,” said SNAP secretary Scott Mingilino. We ask anyone who wants to support this wonderful organization, an organization that does so much for the disabled in our community, to join us for the gala.”
Mingilino said the evening includes cocktails, a buffet dinner, speakers from Special Olympics-Wisconsin, live and silent auctions, and dancing to the Pat Crawford Big Band. He added that every penny raised during the event goes to Special Olympics.
Also during the evening, SNAP honors two of its most dedicated supporters: UW-Parkside Physics Professor Paul Mohazzabi as well as Jenny and John Heim and family and Heim’s Downtown Toy Store.
The SNAP Gala raised money for a different charitable organization each year. Past recipients of funds from this event include the Susan J. Komen Cancer Foundation, the southeastern Wisconsin Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, and the Kenosha Community Health Center.
Tickets for the 4th annual SNAP Gala are $30 and can be purchased at Carolyn’s Coffee Connection by phone at 262-595-2480 or by mail at UW-Parkside Consortial Nursing Program, 900 Wood Rd., P.O. Box 2000, Kenosha, Wis. 53141. Sponsorship opportunities are also available.
SNAP is a student organization in the consortial nursing program based at UW-Parkside and administered by UW-Milwaukee. SNAP projects and activities foster professionalism, improve the quality of nursing education; and increase cohesiveness between its students members and their faculty in order to positively influence the health and well-being of students, the community, and the world.
