25th annual and final Gorgeous Gals Gala this Saturday

WORLAND – The 25th annual and final Gorgeous Gals Gala, sponsored by the Business and Professional Women’s Organization, is Saturday evening, Oct. 5 at the Worland Community Center Complex located at 1200 Culbertson Avenue in Worland.

When asked why the 25th annual gala will be the last gala Gorgeous Gal member Meg Stark stated, “This is the last one it’s the 25th annual and it is the last. People are too busy in their own lives to be part of it, I guess. It’s like every other club that’s dying in town and you can’t make it go if you don’t have people, it takes a village.”

The event begins at 6 p.m. with wine tasting and hors d’oeuvres. After a gourmet dinner will be served under the care and supervision of Cindy Stickler. Katy Gossens and friends will provide dessert. Followed by a skit, which Stark implied will be celebrating/remembering Woodstock. “It’s Woodstock’s 50th anniversary so wear your tie dyes,” Stark said.

Stark stated that proceeds from the event will be going to help people with cancer in Washakie and Hot Springs County for transportation to doctors in other towns/cities.

“Over the many years we have bought furniture for the old hospital and for [chemotherapy] and we have done things to promote the bus that goes from Thermopolis that goes through all the towns and ends up in Cody. We have donated monies for it several times and we have had the Visa gift cards up in Cody at the clinic for people that needed transportation money. The one we are doing now is for lodging or meals, gas or whatever is needed to make them comfortable,” Stark said.

Door prizes will be given throughout the evening and include a .22 rifle, half a pig, artwork by Jim Yule, a handmade quilt, tool kits and Swarovski crystal jewelry.

HISTORY

According to Stark, the first Gorgeous Gals Gala on Oct. 27, 1994 was the brain child of Aldeen Swartzendruber and Cheri Bundren and the first “models in disguise” were Meg Stark, Dorene Atkinson, Mary Grace Strauch, Lavera Cruickshank, Aldeen Swartzendruber, Eloise Shaw, Eveyln Ilg, Mary Lebaron, Fern Woodhams, Helen Bond and Barbara Edwards.

“They got us together and we had our first ones (galas) in the old museum and it was just a dessert and coffee-type thing and it grew from there. My son graduated from chef school and he would come and do hors d’oeuvres and then that mushroomed into gourmet dinners,” Stark said.

Anyone interested in attending the event may call Meg Stark at 347-3845 or Sarah Radabaugh at 347-3500. Tickets will not be sold at the door.