Motorcycle Charity Ride sponsored by Baird & Warner Real Estate will be on Sunday, August 29, 2010

Baird & Warner Real Estate's Goodwill Network, located at 2255 Randall Road in Carpentersville, is sponsoring a Motorcycle Charity Ride benefiting the Ecker Center, on Sunday, August 30, 2010.  Prizes, raffles, food and drinks will be available at various stops along the ride route. Registration will start at 9:00 a.m. at the Baird & Warner office, and the ride will start at 9:45. Stops will be made at Prairie Pub in Garden Prairie, Kip & Deb's Tavern in Sharon, WI, Donovan's Reef in Twin Lakes, WI, Kief's Reef in McHenry, with the final stop at Bandito Barney's in East Dundee.  All event details are being handled by Baird & Warner; for additional information visit the website www.bwcharityride.com.  The clients, board and staff of the Ecker Center extend a big thank you for the $1,328 donation that the Baird & Warner's Motorcycle Charity Ride raised in 2009.  

 

 

Annual Festival of Trees

The Festival of Trees is Ecker Center's major fund-raiser.  It will be held on Saturday, November 13, 2010. Individuals, businesses and organizations sponsor and decorate approximately 40 Christmas trees.  The trees are put on display for two weeks at the Gail Borden Library in Elgin.  The community may view the trees at the library and vote for their favorite one.  The trees are then sold to the highest bidder during a live auction at the Gala Event.  Click on Festival of Trees for more information.

 

The Ecker Center's Annual Awards Breakfast

This year's Awards Breakfast was held on May 11th at the Elgin Country Club. Featured speakers at the Awards Breakfast were Betty and Floyd Brown.  The event was sponsored in part by Linden Group Health Services. To see the list of award winners, please click on the awards breakfast tab.

 

Community Fundraiser Event Featuring a Partnership with Elgin High School

Elgin High School students performed their Constellation Concert, featuring orchestra, jazz and song on Thursday, December 17, 2009 at Elgin High School.  Concert ticket proceeds were shared with the Ecker Center for Mental Health. The Ecker Center is grateful to Sandra Parsons and the faculty, administrators and students of Elgin High, for a wonderful concert and donation of $1,500 to the Ecker Center.