news-press.com • August 17, 2009 Clear that closet for a good cause.
Clear that closet for a good cause. Starting today through Aug. 31, women can donate their dry-cleaned dresses of all kinds at nine drop-off locations in Lee and Collier counties. Donors will get a tax write-off and free admission to the Love That Dress! dress-buying party for charity from 6 to 9 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 1, at Embassy Suites, 10450 Corkscrew Commons Drive, near the intersection of Corkscrew Road and Interstate 75 in Estero. Admission is $10 for non-donors. Visit lovethatdress.net for more information. In the hotel ballroom, the donated dresses will be categorized by type and size for purchase. Nothing will be more than $100. There will be private dressing stalls and mirrors. Volunteers will help sort the dresses and guide the guests. A cash bar will be available, as well as hors d’oeuvres. There will be a silent auction for boxes filled with 15 items worth $500 or more.
Everything for the event will be donated, so all of the proceeds will go to the nonprofit organization PACE Lee County and its PACE Center for Girls in south Fort Myers, which helps troubled girls and young women better themselves through education, counseling, training and advocacy programs.