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Annual Benefit Dinner
Dance
The club has hosted a benefit dance
since 1948. In its current format, the event is held at the Four
Rivers Cultural Center and features a traditional Basque dinner,
dance performance, lamb auction, and public dancing to live
music.
The dance has become known as a charitable community event, with the
money going back into the community in a variety of forms. Among
these is the Marge Plaza Memorial Scholarship, providing
the newspaper to the hospital and paying for meat for senior
dinners. In addition, a large donation is given to a selected
charity each year. In the past the Ontario Fire department and
Holy Rosary Hospital have received this donation for the purchase of
expensive equipment such as CAT scan equipment. The Senior Citizen
Center, Project Dove, and Help Them to Hope are among many other
charities that have received donations from the Ontario Basque
Club. Whatever is left over, after club insurance and
operating costs, is used for events such as Festival of Trees,
America’s Global Village and Festival, and fireworks on the Fourth
of July. More about this event
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 Summer
Picnic
Bring your own table service
and food. Drinks will be provided.
The 2004 picnic featured the first
annual "euskathlon", a series of traditional and
non-traditional team competitions including soka tira, txingak,
ikurrina relay, 2 x 4 trainerak, and combination
challenges. The txapeldunak or winners received
baseball caps with our Euskathlon logo. There was also a
Txiki Txapelketa for the little ones. Click here to see video
clips and photos from the 2004 picnic. The 2005
picnic and Euskathlon will be held Sunday, July 10th in Lions Park
beginning at 1:00 pm.
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