Mary Patrick and Joe Roan competing in the 2013 Dancing Like a Star event.
This may be a first—there are no big events on our calendar this week. Given the vagaries of our weather, that’s probably a good thing. Of course, there are music sessions and ceili dancing from Philadelphia to Bethlehem as there are every week, but there are some big things coming up that you should know about.
First the Irish American Business Chamber and Network is holding its Ambassador Awards on February 20 at the Hyatt at The Bellevue on Broad Street in Philadelphia. SAP USA, a an international business software company with an office in Newtown Square, will receive The Ambassador Award from Anne Anderson, the Irish ambassador to the US at the luncheon event.
Also honored will be Denis P. O’Brien, senior executive vice president of Exelon Corporation and chief executive officer of Exelon Utilities, a provider of energy services who will receive the Taoiseach Award, and Ann Claffey Baiada, a founder and director of Bayada Nurses, a home health care company headquartered in Moorestown,NJ, will accept the Uachtaran Award.
For more information, contact the Chamber via its website.
The Delco Gael’s annual fundraiser, Dancing Like a Star, is scheduled for February 21 at the Springfield Country Club in Springfield, Delaware County. And it’s not too soon to order tickets. The event regularly sells out. Money from the event helps support the Gaels, a youth Gaelic sports club that’s the largest in the Philadelphia area, with more than 300 children playing footballs, hurling and camogie last year.
The dancing contestants this year: Siobhan Trainor and James Conboy; Anita Robbins and Joe McCormick; Laurie McGarrity and Bill McClafferty; Kathleen Seward and Tom Farrelly; MaryAnn Klein and Tom Ivory; Amy McKeever and Brian Gondek; Genevieve Smith and Paul Welsh; Charlotte Comasky and Caine Donaghy.
I shouldn’t play favorites, but this is my all-time favorite fundraiser of the year. The Gaels know how to put the “fun” in fundraiser and if you’re free that night, you’ll have a great time—guaranteed.
For more information or to buy tickets, go to the Gael’s website where you can also find out about the Delco Gaels Open House and Indoor Leage. The open house is on Tuesday, January 11, at Maple Zone Aston, 1451 Conchester Highway, Garnet Valley, and the indoor league follows over the next six weeks.
