On October 5, 2013 at 7:00 pm Raue
Center For The Arts will celebrate the arts on stage at their largest annual
fundraiser. This glamorous gala is filled with signature cocktails, delectable
local cuisine, dancing, a live and silent auction and more, and helps to ensure
the arts are alive and thriving in the community for generation to come. NBC’s
Rob Elgas will serve as the evening’s emcee.
Stargazers Ball helps to raise funds
for their current long-term needs – like their $1.8 million dollar mortgage –
that directly impacts operational needs for programs like Mission Imagination,
their children’s programming, and Williams Street Repertory, their in-house
theatre company. This year the center will focus on the Mission Imagination
programming and the need is great in light of the government shutdown. Raue
Center services 22,000 from McHenry County each season.
Live auction pieces include a weekend
escape in Galena, a week trip to Cancun, a sports package complete with Cubs
Skybox and Bulls tickets and a wine soiree prepared by Senator Pam Althoff,
Representative Mike Tryon and Mayor Aaron Shepley. Mayor Shepley will also serve as guest
auctioneer with WSR ensemble member and star Amanda Flahive. The evening will
also include a silent auction.
Mike Potts and Dave Radford, of Felix
and Fingers, supported by a full band, will provide musical entertainment. The
addition, the evening will feature special guest appearances by Sage Studio
youth participants.
Raue Center would like to thank their
sponsors Countryside Flower Shop, Garden Center and Nursery, Dalzell Jewelers,
EISENMANN, Intren, Market Financial Group, Sage Products, Inc. and Shaw Media
for their support of this event. Special thanks to James Keating of Luxury
Link, Jenny Dalzell of Dalzell Jewelers and Rich Naponelli, CEO of Sage
Products!
Tickets are on sale now for Raue Center’s
2013/2014 season at www.rauecenter.org, or via the Box Office
located at 26 N. Williams Street in Historic Downtown Crystal Lake or by phone
815.356.9212.
About Rob Elgas
Rob Elgas joined NBC5 News in August
2002 as a general assignment reporter. He currently co-anchors NBC5′s 430PM
newscast with Marion Brooks and reports for the 10PM news.
Elgas came to NBC5 from the ABC
affiliate in El Paso, Texas where he anchored their two-hour morning program.
Prior to the El Paso station, Elgas
worked for the NBC affiliate in Champaign. His duties included photographer
(‘one-man band’), reporter, fill-in anchor, and even weather forecaster. Elgas
started his broadcasting career in Champaign-Urbana, attending the University
of Illinois, his first journalism job was as a summer columnist for the student
newspaper The Daily Illini.
In 2005, Elgas won a regional Emmy for
his work on a feature story called “Stuck in the Middle”. He’s won several
Emmys co-hosting various NBC5 special broadcasts including “Hometown Hopefuls”
a half hour program about Chicago’s winter Olympians in 2006. Elgas has been
featured on NBC5’s Chicago marathon live broadcasts, interviewing the world’s
best runners after they crossed the finish line. He’s also co-hosted the
Chicago Auto Show and NBC’s Education Nation initiative.
In 2006, Elgas traveled to Turin,
Italy for the winter Olympics. He has also covered wildfires in San Diego, the
NCAA men’s basketball national championship and the White Sox incredible World
Series run in 2005.
Born in suburban Arlington Heights and
raised in Crystal Lake, Rob calls Chicago home.
He loves sports, and you might find him on the hardwood playing hoops,
or watching any Chicago team during the year.
Rob attended the University of
Illinois in Champaign/Urbana, studying broadcast journalism and agricultural
communications. His family now lives in southern Texas, near the border of
Mexico — a place Rob calls his home away from home.
For information, visit www.rauecenter.org, www.facebook.com/RaueCenter and www.twitter.com/RaueCenter.
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