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Next Event:
Saturday, December 14, 2024
11 AM to 2 PM
at the Taylor Ranch
Community Center
4900 Kachina St NW, Albuquerque
The Annual
IAS Christmas Party!
It’s time again for our annual Christmas Party, this year at the Taylor Ranch Community Center on the Westside. Come wearing your Christmas garlands, bring the kids, bring some food to share, participate in the Silent Raffle, and enjoy fine music and Irish dancing with your fellow IAS members! (We will provide coffee, tea, hot chocolate, and soft drinks. Please bring a dish to share and be sure to mark your utensils.) And please let us know if you have any items to donate to the Raffle by emailing Caren Garcia (careng225@msn.com).
Christmas Party schedule:
11:00: Start time
11:30: Performance by the Brightburn Academy of Irish Dance Irish Step Dancers
12:15: Performance by the Duke City Ceili Band and the Duke City Ceili Dancers
12:45: Announcement of Raffle winners
Ongoing: Mrs. O’Halloran’s Irish Money-Making Scheme Raffle!
Instructions for the Raffle at the Christmas Party:
1. Buy as many raffle tickets as you like ($1.00 each; 6 for $5) and put your name on the part you will use to enter the raffle.
2. Wander over to the raffle area and peruse which items you’d like to win in the raffle.
3. Put one of your raffle tickets with your name on it in the bag in front of the item you choose. (Or put 50 raffle tickets in there if you really want to win!)
4. At 12:45, we will draw a ticket from each bag and paper clip it to the bag. Check to see if your raffle ticket was drawn.
5. Collect your winnings! (And thanks for supporting the IAS!)