Obama fundraiser set for Friday
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- October
- 14
A fundraiser dubbed “Boogie for Obama” will be held from 7 p.m. to midnight Friday at the Nyack Center, 58 Depew Ave.
You have to be 18 or older to attend to attend the bash, which will feature Sam Waymon & The Magic Band, Whitley of Whitley & The Hard Time Band, Frankie D and D.J. Preston Powell.
Organizers also said the event will offer original videos, a silent auction, raffles, and lawn signs, T-shirts, buttons and other stuff that promotes Barack Obama’s presidential candidacy.
The sponsors are Rockland County Grassroots Volunteers for Barack Obama and Sign of the Times, a Nyack business at 112 Main St.
The donation is $25. Call Greg Jackman at 845-353-6142 or Kris Burns at 845-353-6590.
Rockland County Grassroots Volunteers for Barack Obama organized several months ago and has been meeting at 6:30 p.m. each Monday at Origins bookstore in the Nanuet Mall.
The group has registered more than 200 new voters in Rockland, and raised more than $10,000 for Obama’s campaign, according to one of its activists, Laurence Holland.
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