APRIL 2, 2009 ISSUE
Hope du Jour
4th Annual Celebrity Serve Takes Over Two-Dozen Area Restaurants April 7
Whether you’re looking for a five-course feast or just a sandwich to help get you through the day, there’s no better time to go out to eat than on Tuesday, April 7. For the fourth consecutive year, area restaurants will open their doors and their cash registers to help make a difference in the High Country with Celebrity Serve.
From TV personalities and ASU athletes, to local pastors and dignitaries, familiar faces will strap on aprons and wait on you hand and foot to raise money for the Hospitality House’s Giving Hope a Hand Combined Campaign. The nonprofit plans to use the funds to build and operate a new homeless shelter for the High Country.
While Celebrity Serve initially took place at restaurants in Boone, the annual excuse to get out of the kitchen has become an event that encompasses dining spots throughout the High Country.
Familiar to last year’s participants will be the highly anticipated silent auction. This year’s hottest item up for bid is dinner for two on Thursday, April 9, with the players from the Carolina Barnstorming Tour at the Holmes Center, including 2008 NCAA Men’s Basketball National Player of the Year Tyler Hansbrough, along with UNC stars Danny Greene and Bobby Frasor, and Duke University seniors Greg Paulus and David McClure, as well as several other players on the all-star squad.
Each participating restaurant will have a silent auction sheet on which folks may bid. The top bidders will most likely meet on Tuesday night at Makoto’s for a live auction at the end of Celebrity Serve.
An exciting array of other goodies will be up for grabs throughout the evening including a football signed by former NFL star Hershel Walker, golf packages and gift baskets ranging in value from $1,200 to $1,700.
Last year’s big ticket item was an ASU vs. Michigan game ball signed by the entire ASU team, which sold for $10,000 and helped raise a total of $45,273 for the new Ted Mackorell Soccer Complex on Brookshire Road in Boone.
For more information on this year’s Celebrity Serve, call Dhing at 828-264-7976. The event also has a page on Facebook.
High Country Churches Get Involved in Celebrity Serve
While much about the Bible can be debated among scholars and churchgoers, virtually all Christians can agree that God intended his flock to serve others. For the 4th annual Celebrity Serve, more than 20 area congregations will lend a hand by selling raffle tickets, staffing restaurants and spreading the word about the Hospitality House’s Giving Hope a Hand Combined Campaign. From pastors and elders, to youth groups and other parishioners, High Country churches are aiming to help Celebrity Serve surpass last year’s total of more than $45,000.
Unitarian
St. Elizabeth’s
Faithbridge United Methodist
St. Luke’s Episcopal
Rumple Memorial Presbyterian
St. Mary of the Hills Episcopal
Oak Grove Baptist
Deerfield Methodist
Foscoe Christian
Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter Day Saints
Mt. Calvary Baptist
St. Bernadette Catholic
Grace Lutheran
Boone United Methodist
First Presbyterian
Alliance Bible Fellowship
Laurel Fork Baptist
First Baptist of Blowing Rock
High Country United Church of Christ
Holy Cross Episcopal
Perkinsville Baptist
Valle Crucis Methodist
Restaurants Participating in Celebrity Serve 2009
With two-dozen area eateries participating in the 2009 Celebrity Serve, you won’t have any trouble finding something to tempt your taste buds. Throughout Boone and Blowing Rock, more restaurants than ever will be handing over their serving duties to local celebrities to raise money. Restaurants will donate 10 percent of the day’s total sales to the Hospitality House’s Giving Hope a Hand Combined Campaign.
Bandana’s
Beef O’Brady’s
The Bistro
Blimpie’s
Capone’s
Casa Rustica
Chick-Fil-A
Chetola’s Manor House
Char
Gadabouts
Glidewell’s
Los Arcoiris
Makoto’s
Mast Farm Inn
Mr. Original Gyros
The Peddler
Pepper’s
Red Onion
Six Pence Pub
Sledgehammer Charlie’s
Storie Street Grille
Sunrise Grill
Troy’s 105 Diner
The Woodlands BBQ
Local Celebrities Participating in Celebrity Serve
If you’re out to eat on Tuesday, April 2, don’t be surprised if the person bringing your drinks and taking your order isn’t your regular server. From ASU sports stars, local business owners, doctors and more, scores of familiar names and faces from around the High Country will strap on an apron and make sure you don’t go home hungry. Below is a partial list of participating celebrities who will be donating their time and tips to charity.
Jerry Moore (ASU Football Coach)
Mark Speir (ASU Football Coach)
Ray Russell (Ray’s Weather)
Armanti Edwards (ASU Football)
Cortez Gilbert (ASU Football)
Dan Meyer (Boone Chamber of Commerce)
Britney Swain (The Visitors Channel
Tom Lanier (WECR 102.3)
Ed Shuford (High Country Bank)
Jason Reagan (Watauga Democrat)
Chuck Mantooth (Cannon Memorial Hosptital)
Dr. Larry Cook (Blue Ridge General Denistry)
Reggie Hassler (Boone Fire Chief)
Eddie Bermudez (ASU Basketball)
Ryann Abraham (ASU Basketball)
Donte Minter (ASU Basketball)
Joe Miller (Cheap Joe’s Art Stuff)
Hanes Boren (Footsloggers)
Sherri Norris (All About Women Magazine)
Tim Baxter (Baxter Mountain Properties)
Buzz Berry (Sqrambled Scuares)
And many, many more…
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