2/14/13 - The Livingston Sunrise Rotary is preparing to hold its fourth annual Midnight in the Tropics fundraising event this weekend to benefit a pair of local youth charities. The event will take place Saturday and include dinner, live and silent auctions, live entertainment, and prize drawings. One of the organizations that will benefit from the Midnight in the Tropics is Reaching Higher, a Brighton-based non-profit organization dedicated to helping young men and women live healthier, happier lives. The groupâs leadership training program teaches middle and high school students how to make positive life choices and steer their future in the right direction. Susie Dahlmann founded the program in 1997 after working for 25 years as a teacher in the Walled Lake district. Speaking with WHMI's Mike & Jon in the Morning (Click Here for interview), Dahlmann says that after attending eight, 2-hour classes, teens are able to achieve greater self-esteem and social competence, develop the ability to thrive in difficult and pressure situations, maintain stronger academic achievement and understand and utilize positive conflict resolution skills. The other organization to benefit from Saturdayâs fundraiser will be The Connection Youth Services in Howell. The theme of Midnight in the Tropics, which last year raised about $16,000, is tropical, with Hawaiian shirts and flip-flops encouraged. In keeping with this theme, the grand prize for the drawing will be a weeklong vacation at a beach resort on the island of St. Croix in the U.S. Virgin Islands. Tickets to Midnight in the Tropics are $50 and include dinner and entry into the prize drawing. The event will take place in the Johnson Center at Cleary University, but ticket holders need not be present to win prizes. For more information call Bryan at 248-361-6392. (JK)
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