Friends of NRA panel plans annual banquet

YOUNGSTOWN — The Mahoning Valley Friends of the NRA Committee is hosting its annual fundraising banquet March 18 at the ITAM Club, 113 S. Meridian Road. Doors open at 5:30 p.m. and dinner will be served at 7 p.m.

Fundraising opportunities include games, raffles, Chinese auctions, silent auctions and live auctions.

Net proceeds of the event have been used primarily to support youth shooting opportunities in Trumbull, Mahoning and Columbiana counties.

Dinner tickets are $35 per person. A sponsor package costs $250, including two dinners, a hat, $160 in raffle tickets, a 1‚Ñ8-page ad in the brochure and a sculpture. A deluxe sponsor package costs $360 and includes all the above items except for a total of eight dinner tickets.

No tickets will be sold at the door. For information or tickets, call (330) 482-1607, (330) 898-4446, or (330) 427-2091 or e-mail RandallHartnyl@comcast.net, larrybeard@aol.com, or pbrnra13@comcost.net.