By Delarita Ford
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The community is invited to get tickets to a fall fashion show and luncheon planned for 10:30 a.m.-2 p.m. on Monday, Nov. 10, at The Colonnade, 19116 N. Colonnade Way in Surprise

New Image Fashions will provide outfits, featuring latest fall and winter selections for the event hosted by The Tikvah-West Valley Organization, a local chapter of Hadassah, an American women’s volunteer nonprofit organization with about 300,000 Hadassah members across the country and across generations, according to a press release.

Local residents who are Tikvah members will model outfits from the New Image Fashions collection with 15% of all fashion sales going directly to the nonprofit Hadassah.

Proceeds support Hadassah’s many charitable efforts including a hospital in Israel, which treats all Israelis and visitors plus Arabs, and Palestinians without charge.

“Hadassah hospital does millions of dollars of research every year,” stated Adrienne Kirschner-Bittman, a Surprise resident who has been a Hadassah member for over 30 years.

“At Hadassah, we believe that each of us has the power to heal our world. That means bringing healing - in every sense of the word - where it’s needed most, in the US, and around the globe.”

For more than 100 years, Hadassah has worked proactively to find and implement solutions to challenges facing each generation, from helping women “find their voices to advance health equity,” to fighting “hate and antisemitism in the US, and modeling shared society in Israel,” said Kirschner-Bittman.

“Thanks to the medical system in Israel we helped create new treatments. Hadassah supported scientific breakthroughs are saving lives around the world,” she added, noting the impacts of combining philanthropy and women’s leadership.

An event that used to be held in Scottsdale, enjoy shopping from New Image’s extension offerings locally in Surprise. Lunch includes a choice of salmon and Asian salad, or eggplant Parmesan with pasta and salad.

Tickets  are $40. Register online at Events.hadassah.org/TWVFashionShow.

Contact Judi Board: DesertMountain@hadassah.org.

Delarita Ford
Lead Reporter | Surprise

dford@iniusa.org

Meet Delarita
Delarita Ford originally joined Independent Newspapers Incorporated, now Independent Newsmedia, Inc. USA in 1997, as a general assignment reporter for the Delaware State News daily paper after starting her journalism career in Maryland in 1994, where she honed her skills by writing obituaries, covering community news from births to deaths, education to legislation and more. As a reporter, she has had the opportunity to cover sitting and former U.S. presidential visits in Baltimore, Delaware, and Arizona.

Community: One of the few seasoned journalists who still enjoys covering community events, she can be found with a reporter’s pad taking notes, her phone taking pictures while capturing life’s moments to memorialize them in print for the local newspapers and for the active-adult community where she lives. She maintains a presence with the Black media and the National Association of Black Journalists to encourage peers, socialize, and mentor younger writers.

Education: Life learner who learns from life. Aside from the collegiate education received, she got the best training from on-the-job experience with former editors who went through copy with a red pen and demanded the best writing for hard news and feature stories. 

Random Fact: While a Delaware State News reporter, she could call then Sen. Joe Biden and his wife, Dr. Jill Biden, usually late at night if a quote or input was needed for varying topics, including legislation and education.

Hobbies: Adopt rescue dogs and give them a nice home. Continuously read and critique news stories from various platforms.