Celebrate a great cause at the Annual CASA Mercedes Kick-Off bash! Held on Thursday, May 28 from 5 to 8 p.m., this event will help launch CASA’s 2009 Mercedes Raffle Contest. An annual fundraiser for the organization, the raffle gives participants a chance of winning a brand new Mercedes-Benz. This year, the kick-off party is sponsored by Tafel Motors and will be located inside their main showroom on 4156 Shelbyville Road.

Second prize is free gas for a year from Thornton’s valued at $2,000 and third prize is two round-trip airline tickets from American Airlines to anywhere in the continental United States!

This event is only open to people who purchased a 2008 or 2009 raffle ticket. Raffle tickets are on sale now through October for $100 each and may be purchased by calling CASA headquarters at 502-595-4911 or visiting www.casajc.org. The drawing will be held live on WAVE 3 TV during the “WAVE 3 Listens” Show. Winner need not be present.

“This party is our way of thanking our supporters of the raffle,” said CASA chair Barbara Grosso O’Bryan. “We will have food, entertainment, door prizes and a chance to check out the beautiful car that you can win. Giving back to the community is supposed to be fun and the kick-off party is one way CASA expresses this philosophy.”

Food and drinks will be available to all guests, compliments of Silver Spoon caterers. Valet parking will also be available for the evening. Door prizes will include a pair of American Airline tickets to anywhere in the continental United States!

CASA is a private, non-profit organization that trains and supports volunteer advocates who are appointed by the Jefferson County Family Courts to work on behalf of abused and neglected children. Every year in our community more than 2,000 innocent children appear before a family court judge. The Jefferson County CASA Project, founded in 1985, was the first one in Kentucky and is one of more than 900 CASA projects in 50 states nationwide.