The Salvation Army Women’s Auxiliary’s annual Celebrity Fashion Show will be Feb. 16 at 10 a.m. at the Salvation Army Family Store on Green Springs Highway.
The event is free and open to the public.
Models will wear outfits selected from clothing donated to the Salvation Army that is for sale at the Salvation Army stores. A special jewelry event will feature a large selection of jewelry also been donated for sale in the stores.
The Salvation Army’s Adult Rehabilitation Center (ARC), a residential program for men with drug and alcohol problems, is solely supported by the sale of donated items at the Family Stores with three locations in Birmingham: Green Springs Highway, Highway 150 in Hoover and downtown on Shuttlesworth Drive.
The purpose of the fashion show is to make people aware of the ARC program and the merchandise available for sale in the stores.
Planning the event are the auxiliary’s ARC committee chairman Janine Goode; Capt. Mary Matthews, director of special services for the Birmingham Adult Rehabilitation Center; and Major Christine Smith, the Salvation Army’s coordinator of women’s activities for Birmingham.
Also on the planning committee are Pat Bussey, Nita Collinsworth, Sue Patrick, Pat Robinson and Pat Scofield.
WDJC and Channel 13 are again partnering with the Salvation Army to sponsor the event along with the Aveda Institute, whose students will be doing model’s hair and makeup for the show.
Models for the event are auxiliary members, members of the Salvation Army Advisory Board and the Advisory Council of the ARC as well as local TV and radio celebrities. David Lamb of Channel 13 and “Joe in the Morning” of WDJC will emcee the show.
Miss Alabama Ashley Davis will be a guest model. Other models include Deborah Balentine, Shelley Barlow, Pat and Stan Bussey, Jeanne Clarke, Laine Crook, Jan Dickerson, A.D. Goode, Rev. Carl Johnson, Melva Jones, Ann and Tom Leopard, Sue Parker, Patsy Sandefer, Mary Sink, Major Christine Smith, Brigadier Luther and Esther Smith, Phyllis and Roy Tinsley, Nancy Warden and Aletha Watley.
