By CHASITY WEBB
Assistant Features Editor

On Friday, April 9, Chi Omega Women’s Fraternity held it’ second annual Wings For Wishes event in the MUC Plaza.

Participants in this event paid a $7 fee for a ticket and were invited to an “all-you-care to eat” chicken wing buffet.

Local wings vendors including Buffalo Wild Wings, Dominos, Hooters, Zaxby’s and Choppin Block donated the wings for the event.

T-shirts were also sold at the event and there was a silent auction. Many items were included in the silent auction.

Several of these are themed baskets created by the women of APSU’s Chi Omega chapter. For example, there were baskets created for each fraternity and sorority.

“Some [other] items auctioned were the poster signed by Keith Urban, free spa days, gift cards to restaurants and a three-month membership to the YMCA,” said sophomore Chi Omega member Sarah Nagy. Nagy served as the Wings for Wishes chair.

The Make-A-Wish foundation is Chi Omega’s national philanthropy, which was the organization they chose to raise money for.

The foundation’s mission is to grant children with life-threatening medical conditions their one true wish.

According to the Make-A-Wish foundation’s Web site, www.wish.org,it was founded in 1980 when Chris Graicius, a young boy, realized his life’s dream was to become a police officer.

The organization granted his wish and has continued to grant wishes for thirty years.

At the previous years event, Chi Omega raised $5,000 for the Make A Wish Foundation. This year they added to their pot by raising $7,000.

According to the President of Chi Omega Women’s Fraternity, Kelsea Cox, each wish costs about $5,000 to grant a wish. For the two years that Wings for Wishes has taken place, Chi Omega has been able to grant two wishes.

“On average it costs $5,000 to grant a wish, so we are able to grant another wish this year. Therefore I say the event was successful,” Cox, a junior elementary education major said. “I am so proud to be a part of this event.”

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