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moral support, comfort and solace from her friends; she needed financial help.
So the Jessie Waites Fund was organized last week.
“Lanise is all alone. She’s divorced, her mother and father are both dead. She doesn’t really have anybody she can turn to,” said Rae Haase, one of the founders of the group.
The word traveled.
Castleton’s firefighters agreed to loan the use of their fire hall for a benefit dinner Oct. 25. A score and seven cooks were called and asked to donate a pan of lasagne each.
Theresa Reynolds and Barbara Jolley, bakers for The Inn at Little Washington, said they would make the French bread.
Joyce Abell consented to oversee the salad committee.
Patrick O’Connell and Reinhart Lynch from The Inn inquired whether they could make a donation of wine for the benefit dinner.
Terry Waggoner and Vincent Day, the Rappahannock duo that entertains musically at Shenandoah National Park’s Sky land, volunteered to play dinner music.
Other volunteers were assigned to make iced tea, salad dressing, garlic butter and desserts.
The Fauquier Democrat agreed to print tickets for the dinner at cost.
Local artists Dan Lewis, Davette Leonard, Laurie Marshall, Linda Heimstra and Rex Slack were tapped for advertising posters.
Diana and Lee Bird, Alan and Joanne Berkowitz and Julie and Howard Coon each gave $50 to start an account for the Jessie Waites Fund at Rapphannock National Bank.
On a second front, Washington Volunteer Fire Department agreed to the use of its building for a benefit dance later in the year. Local and
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