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Sunday, April 1, 2007 10:10 PM CDT
Sarah’s Showcase of TableTops funds health care scholarships
By ROB STROUD, Staff Writer
rstroud@jg-tc.com
MATTOON -- Young Jacey Dillon has staged tea parties since she was old enough to hold a cup and sit in a chair on her own.
Consequently, the Charleston youth was pretty impressed when she paid her first visit to the Sarah’s Showcase of TableTops benefit last year.
“I liked it, and it was neat to see all the different tables and how they were set up,” said Jacey, now 9 years old.
Jacey designed a table top of her own for the 2007 Sarah’s Showcase on Saturday with a theme of “Springtime Tea with Dolly and Me.” The table was set with colorful dishes from Jacey’s own tea set collection and area shops.
The table top also featured keepsakes from Jacey’s grandmothers Linda Dillon and Judy Duncan as well as her great grandmothers Dorothy Durham and Alma Wilson.
“It’s a collaboration of family traditions,” said Justine Dillon, Jacey’s mother. Justine Dillon and Judy Duncan sponsored the table top.
Jacey’s table top was one of 20 entered in this year’s Sarah’s Showcase on Saturday at Sarah Bush Lincoln Health Center’s Education Center. The Sarah Bush Lincoln Volunteer Guild holds the event to raise funds for health care scholarships.
Each year Sarah’s Showcase features table tops designed to complement old and new china patterns from local businesses and individuals.
Dotty Shepherd, who has participated in Sarah’s Showcase since the start, said the event raises money for a good cause and displays creative table-top designs. She said the china sets often bring back memories for those who see them.
Shepherd said she was moved by Beth and Julie Morrisey’s “Tea Party for Carrie” table top. This was a memorial to their late mother, Caroline Morrisey.
Every year, Shepherd and husband David submit a table top for a sponsor. She said her husband designs the displays using inventory from his Black Sheep Antiques business and other keepsakes.
The Shepherds submitted a table top with the theme, “Tea with Daddy,” this year for the Dr. Edward Hoppin family. The display featured Shepherd’s salesman sample Hoosier cabinet as well as her pink Depression Doric and Pansy children’s tea sets.
“We always try to do something very different every year so we don’t repeat anything,” Shepherd said. “We usually pick something we want to put on the table and we design the whole table top around that.“
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 KEVIN KILHOFFER (JG/T-C)
David and Dotty Shepherd of Charleston set up their tabletop display Friday for Sarah's Showcase of TableTops held Saturday at Sarah Bush Lincoln Health Center.
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