Dancing with the Stars of the Magic City Presented by Surgical Care Affiliates

Contact:

Lani Powell

lani.powell@firstlightshelter.org

205-323-4277

Birmingham, Alabama, September 8, 2016 – Surgical Care Affiliates will present Dancing with the Stars of the Magic City to benefit First Light. 

Dancing with the Stars of the Magic City will be Thursday, October 6 at Old Car Heaven at 6:30 p.m. This is a project of First Light’s junior board, the First Light Young Partners.  Doors will open at 5:30 p.m., and the Old Town Pizza, Repicci’s Italian Ice & Gelato and Saw’s Street Kitchen food trucks and the cash bar at Old Car Heaven will begin serving then.

All the proceeds from this event will benefit First Light, our community’s only emergency shelter accessible to homeless women and their children 24 hours a day. Dancing teams will compete for trophies including the Torch People’s Choice Award—which will be given to the team which inspires the most support for First Light. 

The dancing teams are:

Johnathan Austin and Nadine Barton

Morgan Trotter Copes and Katie Rose Stephenson

Katie Roach Dudley and Sterling Burroughs

Coach Robert Ehsan and Jaima Miller

Scott Wells Ford and Denise Katz

Honora Gathings and Jenna McCoy

Jan Hunter and Hannah Strauch

Meaghan Thomas and McCall Scofield

Rep. Patricia Todd and Mackensie Garlow

First Light’s mission is to provide homeless women and children with hospitality in a safe and nurturing community, to encourage them to maintain dignity, to find hope, to seek opportunity, and to grow spiritually, thereby achieving their full potential.

First Light started as a makeshift shelter in the basement of a church when volunteers would not turn a blind eye to the suffering of women sleeping on the street.   First Light became a 501(C)(3) nonprofit organization in 1998 and, with the generous support of the community, renovated the old Granada Hotel at 2230 Fourth Avenue North to serve as an emergency shelter for homeless women and children.  First Light has also developed permanent supportive housing programs for disabled and chronically homeless women, a transitional supportive housing program for victims of domestic violence, and a new rapid-rehousing program for homeless women with children.    Last year 978 homeless women and children found safety, hospitality and hope at First Light.  Volunteers continue to be the light that makes First Light shine.  More than 1,000 volunteers donate more than 10,000 hours each year at First Light—dramatically reducing expenses while reassuring guests they are part of a caring community. 

First Light is 501(C)3 nonprofit organization and gifts to First Light are tax deductible.

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