Ticket sales launched for Malteenoes fundraiser

…fun & frolic for the entire family on Emancipation Day

The first Emancipation celebration was held on August 1, 1834 and it is this country’s oldest holiday. One hundred and eighty-seven years later, the Malteenoes Sport Club is staging a grand fundraiser on August 1, 2021 from 11:00h to 17:00h.
Tickets for the Emancipation Day Lunch will go on sale from today and can be purchased at the MSC clubhouse on Thomas Road, Thomas Lands (tel 225-6509); Jacobs Jewellery & Pawn Shop at 16 Pike Street, Kitty; Star Party Rentals at 21 Craig Street, Campbellville and Exotic Prints at 43 Norton Street, Lodge.
Lunches will include cook-up with all meats or veggie, fried fish, conkie and metemgee and cost $1500. Lunches could be take-away while outdoor dining is offered.
There will also be prizes for best African Wear; and children, men, women and people of all races can vie for prizes while those desirous of becoming members of the club will benefit from reduced membership fees and MSC T-shirts and caps at registration.
This fundraiser and membership drive is aimed improving at the Club’s facilities, especially the all-weather practice nets, and getting more people to join the club, which was founded in 1902 and has several members who have played for Guyana and the West Indies at all levels.
Malteenoes recently got its first Olympian when table tennis player Chelsea Edghill, who will participate in the Tokyo Olympics, became the first Guyanese female Olympian in that sport. (MSC)