Saturday’s Derby Jam was a team effort.
The Mexico Elks 919 hosted a Derby Jam fundraiser with the Central Missouri Veterans Monument to raise money for the monument.
Jeannie Morris of …
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Saturday’s Derby Jam was a team effort.
The Mexico Elks 919 hosted a Derby Jam fundraiser with the Central Missouri Veterans Monument to raise money for the monument.
Jeannie Morris of the Mexico Elks spearheaded the event, but she wouldn’t take credit for something she called a “team effort” between Mexico’s philanthropic organizations.
“My dad was in Korea, my boyfriend’s dad was in Korea, and we have a lot of military that’s in our families to this day,” Morris said. “We wanted to do something to try to give back to the Central Missouri Veterans Monument foundation.”
Morris said it all started with Dennis Benjamin, a musician locally known as Ben Jammin, who wanted to have an all day “jam” with different bands. The entertainment line up was Ben Jammin, The Echo’s and the Brass Brothers and Sisters.
The theme, Morris said, was courtesy of Tim Schoonie and inspired by Kentucky Derby Day.
There were plenty of fundraising opportunities between the auction, lottery raffle and, of course, all-day derby races.
“Eighty percent of those proceeds also go to the Veterans Memorial Monument,” Morris said. “I think with the donations that we received throughout the community, it made it to where the silent auction was very successful,” Morris said, adding that the monetary donations made throughout the day also helped.
