The Chill will be rocking the riverfront in Vidalia on Saturday night for the Vidalia Women’s Club annual Chilling on the River Dance.

The amphitheater on the Vidalia Riverfront will be the hot spot from 8 p.m. to midnight, so put on your dancing shoes and bring the whole family. Advance tickets are still $8, but you can buy tickets at the entrance for $10. Advance $8 tickets will be on sale at Hammer’s Drive Thru or from any Vidalia Women’s Club member; they will also be on sale at the club’s Coca Cola booth at the Jim Bowie Festival.

Go online and check out this fabulous rock and roll band www.chillband.com. For more information on the dance, call Jan Simpson at 601-597-8426 or Heather Lancaster at 318-719-5733.

No ice chests, bottles or cans are allowed; the Vidalia Quarterback Club will have a Coca-Cola and a food booth on site. The 2009 sponsors for this event are the City of Vidalia, Sheriff Randy Maxwell and the Concordia Parish Sheriff’s Office, the Great Mississippi River Balloon Race, Chuck Norris, Miss-Lou Physical Therapy, Bug Busters, A1 Towing, 107.1 The River and Hammers Drive Thru. Additional sponsors are always welcome.

Look forward to a great evening sitting in the amphitheater, listening to great rock ’n‘ roll and enjoying your family and friends.

The annual Vidalia Women’s Club street dance is our primary fundraiser for the 2009-2010 year. The money collected from the Chilling On the River Street Dance and the Jim Bowie Festival Coca Cola booth finances all of our projects this year. We would not be able to offer the kind of generosity in the community, as we do now, without these funds. I hope that you will join us Saturday and remember that all proceeds go for good community causes!

The Vidalia Women’s Club participates in many philanthropic activities in the Miss-Lou, so I would like to let you know what you can expect from us this year.

Our next big project will be the annual Vidalia Christmas Parade in December. The Miss Vidalia Pageant will come up in January and a big community event in April and May, we put a huge effort into the American Cancer Society-Relay for Life campaign, fundraising and soliciting donations to find a cure for cancer.

Some of the other undertakings that we donate time and money to are: Feed the Hungry, Flags for Veterans, Adopt-a-family, the Council on Aging, Pleasant Acre Day Care, the Sunshine Shelter, the Natchez Children’s Home, the Natchez Humane Society, the Annual Dinner, the American Heart Association, Operation Christmas Child, the Guardian Shelter, various programs with the lower and upper Vidalia Elementary schools including the Thanksgiving Day program, classroom readers and uniform distributions, mission work with local churches, Arbor Day, children’s spring art contest, and the Kristi and Beth Foster Memorial Scholarship. All of these are worthy activities and our club hopes to continue working on them and future projects that come up.

Please join the Vidalia Women’s Club on the Riverfront for music and fun, at 8 p.m. Saturday.

Kaye Harris is the reporter for the Vidalia Women’s Club.