CCLP/LYNETTE SOWELL - Janie French and Rita Burgess with the Coryell County Rainbow Room receive a check for $2,160 from Nicole Vess and Shelby Kelly with Operation-CURLS.

Op CURLS raises $2,100 for county Rainbow Room

By LYNETTE SOWELL
Cove Leader-Press
 
Operation CURLS held their ticket drawing for their fundraiser on Tuesday afternoon and presented a check for $2,160 to the Coryell County Rainbow Room.
 
Nicole Vess, a National Banks employee and Morning Exchange Club member, is one of six founding members of Operation CURLS and is the fundraiser’s organizer. Vess chose the Coryell County Rainbow Room to benefit from the ticket sales.
 
“I usually organize two fundraisers for them, one in the spring and one in the fall,” Vess said. “I love the organization and what they stand for. I know 100 percent of the funds will go to support the kids. These kids have no voice; we just want to help the best we can.”
 
Four winners were drawn for a Dallas Cowboys gift basket worth $475, containing memorabilia as well as preseason game tickets; a newspaper gift basket with a newspaper subscription, Cinergy movie passes, Schlitterbahn tickets and two $100 gift certificates for Bold Guy Consulting, $400 total value; a Pacific tanning basket worth $155, containing one free month of tanning, one 30-minute massage session, one facial, and a $50 Visa gift card from The National Banks of Central Texas; and a Refresh Spa gift basket worth $300 that includes a for massage and facial package, essential oil travel case, mineral bath, hand creams, confectionery candle and a facial mask and more.
 
Operation CURLS was founded by couples, some of whom are military veterans and whose love of the Dallas Cowboys brought them together. They sponsor causes locally where they live as well as nationwide—regardless of whose team someone else cheers for. The CURLS acronym stands for Community, Unity, Respect, Loyalty, Sportsmanship.
 
Vess said she is already thinking up ideas for the group’s next fundraising endeavor in the fall.

 

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