ROTARY CLUB OF SAN MARCOS
The Rotary Club of San Marcos is hosting a Mardi Gras Casino Night fundraiser on Friday, Feb. 13 from 6:30 to 10 p.m. La Cima will serve as the Presenting Sponsor for the event.
The venue for the Casino will be the Centex Wing of the Commemorative Air Force Museum, 2249 Airport Rd. There will be casino games, Cajun food, beer and wine, prizes and a $15,000 diamond raffle. Attendees are encouraged to wear beads, masks and other Mardi Gras accessories. The Museum hanger will be festively decorated for the Sweetheart’s Mardi Gras theme.
The Central Texas Wing Museum houses seven aircraft for which the Wing has maintenance and restoration responsibility: a very-rare flying Bell P-39Q Airacobra Miss Connie, the NAA B-25J Yellow Rose, a Vultee BT-13 Valiant, a Cessna U-3A Administrator, a Beech C-45 Expeditor Lone Star Lady, the NAA AT-6 Texan,
and the Douglas Sktrain C-47 named That’s All Brother.
The Commemorative Air Force (CAF), formerly known as the Confederate Air Force, is an American nonprofit organization based in Dallas that preserves and exhibits historical aircraft at airshows and museums, primarily in the U.S. and Canada. The CAF began in 1953, and today has about 13,000 members, more than 70 chapters, and more than 170 aircraft, including the world’s largest collection of airworthy military aircraft.
Sponsorships and reserved tables for eight are available in advance by emailing SMTXrotary@ gmail.com. General admission tickets are $50 and can be purchased online at SMTXrotary.com.
Rotary is nonprofit, nonpolitical and nonreligious. Proceeds support a variety of Rotary club service projects, including funding for the new Dick Burdick /Rotary International Scholarship in the McCoy College of Business at Texas State University. The Rotary Club of San Marcos is 104 years old.
Photos courtesy of Rotary Club of San Marcos
