Staff Reports
A St. Patrick's Day murder mystery fundraising dinner for the Carson Valley Arts Council is 5 p.m. March 17 in the Shannon Ballroom at the Carson Valley Inn in Minden.
The Carson Valley Arts Council's St. Patrick's Day event includes a buffet dinner, raffle, and silent auction of items donated by local artists and businesses. The Carson Valley Community Theatre presents "A Murder Most Green" murder mystery.
Social hour begins at 5 p.m. The no-host bar features a "green" drink, with proceeds benefiting CVAC.
Dinner is 6-8:30 p.m. with an Irish-themed buffet dinner of lamb and barley soup, green potato salad, pickled herring, green salad, cucumbers in dilly, fresh fruit, entrees of beef and stout beef casserole, braised pork loin with apples and cider, corned beef and cabbage with horseradish sauce, whiskey mustard baked chicken, smoked lamp chop with roasted Guinness glaze, green peas and pearl onions, carrots, cabbage and butter, rosemary potato pancakes, Cullen's colcannon, and deep dish apple pie, shamrock cookies, and Irish almond cake for dessert.
The event supports education outreach to the youth in the community. Tickets are $35 for adults, $25 for children 10 and younger, available 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Saturday in the CVAC office or Heartstrings gifts in the Copeland Cultural Arts Center, 1572 Highway 395, Gardnerville, or wwwartscouncil.com. Information, 782-8207.
