foundation dinner

arriving at the casino

Every year NCCC Foundation holds a dinner and charity auction to raise money for scholarships for NCCC students. It is always a classy event and a chance to get dressed up. In the past it has always been held at the college and always catered by the students in the culinary department. Every meal I've ever had at NCCC for any function has always been superb and a delight. This year the venue was changed to the Seneca Niagara Casino in Niagara Falls. I was concerned that the food would be catered by the casino so was pleasantly surprised to find the best of both worlds...a beautiful venue and the NCCC students still catered the food. After walking through the casino under the big sun we were in the hotel part of the casino.


interview area from the second floor

We were escorted to the second floor by Paul who had been a scholarship recipient the previous year. We took the escalator up to the second floor to the banquet rooms. At the top of the landing three NCCC students who are majoring in broadcasting were interviewing people like Joan and Melissa Rivers do at the Oscars. This was being broadcast and shown on TVs in the reception area where we enjoyed hor doures, champagne, wine and mixed drinks.


dance troupe in shimmy dresses

Tickets for the Chinese Auction were being sold by six girls in various color shimmy dresses. They were part of a dance troupe that later in the evening performed a couple numbers for us.


Chinese auction baskets


more baskets


Indian art viewed from the second floor


I've never seen so many woman in black dresses. I swear I only saw one red, one silver and the rest of the ladies including me were in black.


roulette


table in the banquet room

After the Chinese Auction closed we were all asked to proceed to the banquet room. There were 45 tables. B and I were seated at table #6.


napkin with dice


comma shaped pear cake with candied pear and jellied caramel aspic


flowers in the bathroom


Inside of my purse seems to go along with the evening's color scheme of red and black. We each received a deck of cards as a favor.


My setting late in the evening just before we bid on and won a framed photograph of Niagara Falls circa 1915 in the live auction.


another shot of the casino