Archive: Around Town

	Key 2008 Parties Stories CDC Raises $24,500 Rogues Harbor Reopens Historic Ballroom

If you missed the reopening of the Rogues Harbor Inn ballroom in December or the CDC Auction and Dance in October you missed the Lansing 'It' parties of the season.  One celebrated Lansing's past, and the other Lansing's future.

The Corporate Development Committee had just purchased $60,000 of technology equipment for the Lansing schools when it turned around and hosted its 12th annual auction.  They raised another $24,000.

December's celebration of the repeal of Prohibition was the first event to be held in the Rogues harbor Inn's 1830 ballroom in decades.  Most recently owner Eileen Stout and her family had been living in the space.  Very little had been changed since the spring-floored, vaulted ceilinged ballroom was built.  Stout said celebrating the end of Prohibition was appropriate because as far as she knows the inn never acknowledged Prhohibition.  Instead they served home brewed whiskey in tea pots to the rogues who knew how to ask for 'tea.'

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