FORT PIERCE \u2014 A night of dinner, dancing and auctions will help put money into St. Lucie County classrooms when the St. Lucie County Education Foundation hosts its annual fundraiser Nov. 7.<\/p>\n
An Evening for Education, themed \u201cBack to the Future,\u201d is scheduled for 6 to 10 p.m. at the Pelican Yacht Club in Fort Pierce.<\/p>\n
The foundation\u2019s largest fundraiser of the year, the event will feature a plated dinner, live and silent auctions and a celebration of public education. Proceeds will support classroom grants and scholarships for local students.<\/p>\n
The foundation has been supporting St. Lucie County teachers and students since 1990. During the most recent school year, it provided $226,000 in teacher grants and $52,000 in scholarships to 48 graduating seniors.<\/p>\n
This year\u2019s 1980s-inspired theme includes sponsorship levels named after characters and references from the movie \u201cBack to the Future.\u201d Sponsorships range from $1,500 to $6,000, while community members can sponsor a teacher to attend the event for $150.<\/p>\n
Individual tickets are $200, couples tickets are $375 and four tickets are $750. Discounted tickets are available for St. Lucie Public Schools employees.<\/p>\n
Ticket prices are scheduled to increase Oct. 1.<\/p>\n
For tickets or sponsorship information, visit the St. Lucie County Education Foundation website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FORT PIERCE \u2014 A night of dinner, dancing and auctions will help put money into St. Lucie County…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":414966,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[171,173,172,563],"class_list":["post-414965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-port-st-lucie","tag-port-st-lucie","tag-port-st-lucie-headlines","tag-port-st-lucie-news","tag-st_lucie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=414965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414965\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/414966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=414965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=414965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=414965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}