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After a two-year hiatus, princesses will have the opportunity to dance the night away again at the Berryville Community Center.
The Third Annual Berryville Rotary Club Princess Ball, presented by Richard Mary Lou Harp, will be held from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 22 at the community center.
Because of COVID-19, this year’s event will be the first one since 2019.
“It’s really a truly special event, said Cody Qualls, president of the Berryville Rotary Club. “I’ve got a 3-year-old who is about to be 4 and she’s been asking me about it every day.
“It’s going to be a great, great time.”
Qualls said the Princess Ball is the Rotary Club’s biggest fundraiser of the year. This year, most of the proceeds will be donated to the new Berryville library project.
“This event is 20 times bigger than any other event we do,” Qualls said. “A lot of money from the first two balls have gone into the building of the pavilion at the community center playground.
“So, that’s really the point of the event, other than bringing the community together and getting the kids to have a great time, that’s the primary point. We will give away a majority of the money and then some of the money will go back into Rotary to support other projects that we do, like the dictionary program that we bring to the kids in the schools and trash pickups and things like that.”
The event is open to kids and any parent, guardian or friend, Qualls said.
“I just want to make sure that nobody stays home because they feel like it’s exclusively a daddy-daughter event,” he said. “We have had a lot of mothers, grandmothers there before.”
The event will include dancing, music, a dessert table, and the kids will get to interact with “real-life princesses,” Qualls said.
“We’ve had over 100 kids at both the prior events, so over 200 people at both events,” Qualls said. “And we actually sold out the first year because of the fire code and I actually literally had to turn away people at the door.
“So that’s one thing that we would like to impress upon people is if we have extra tickets, there will be tickets for sale at the door. But you’re not guaranteed.”
Tickets are $15 per attendee and can be purchased at the Berryville Library or at Berryville locations of CS Bank, Arvest Bank, Bank of 1889 and Equity Bank.
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