Tickets still on sale for tonight’s Mardi Gras 2024
(Seguin) — Mardi Gras might have been on Feb. 13 but here in Seguin, the celebration is just getting started. Tickets are still available for tonight’s Seguin Education Foundation’s Mardi Gras 2024 fundraiser. The event will be held from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. at the Seguin Coliseum. The celebration, an annual tradition for the SEF, lends itself to a night of live and silent auctions, raffles, music, Cajun food plus New Orleans Hurricanes to help wash it all down.
Encouraging folks to grab a mask and join them tonight is Event Co-Chair Bryan Spahn. Spahn says the event is a night were businesses and the community come together in support of local kids.
“We’ve got the Dirty River Jazz Band coming who are just exceptional. Lots of local people love to hear them. If you are a fan of theirs, that’s just a great reason to come and we have some great auction items this year. Just on the live auction which you can go online and do, we’ve got tickets to Astros games, Rangers games and all kinds of things that you can do around town. So, that’s a great way if you can’t actually physically be there, you can go online and help support us too,” said Spahn.
Spahn says the Seguin Education Foundation for years has supported classroom learning by providing grants. He says teachers apply for the money with hopes of providing new and innovative classroom tools for their students.
“As a husband of a teacher, I’ve seen first hand how they react when they are getting the grants and then just to see how that rolls over to the kids and how it affects them and to be able to give where things aren’t in the budget for the school district, we are able to provide some of those things and really give them extra opportunities that they might not have somewhere else and so, really feeling how that affects those kids and can help them to grow into better citizens. That’s a really great cause to be behind,” said Spahn.
Not only will proceeds help to fund the classroom grants but Spahn says dollars will also go to help support the recently acquired Irma Lewis Seguin Outdoor Learning Center.
“I really think that Fund-A-Need this year with our Irma Lewis Outdoor Learning Center is going to be huge. Getting kids out into nature is just such a big deal. Getting them outside off of electronics and that’s going to be a huge part of what we are raising for this year and lots of people in Seguin know the Irma Lewis Center. They have supported her for a long long time so this is keeping in with that vision that she had for Seguin and for an outdoor learning space and I think that’s going to be a really cool opportunity to see what could become of that land out there,” said Spahn.
This year’s Golden Ticket winner will also be chosen at tonight’s Mardi Gras celebration. Tickets for the raffle are $100 each. The winner will get to choose from four vacation destinations. Those travel destinations include Cabo, Puerto Vallarta; Tuscany, Italy and Las Vegas. Ticketholders do not need to be present to win and only 100 tickets will be sold.
Cost for tonight’s Mardi Gras celebration is $50 and includes food and drink.
Both the Golden Ticket and Mardi Gras tickets can be purchased online by visiting the Seguin Education Foundation Facebook page. A link on that page will also be available for this year’s silent auction.