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Evan's Upcoming Events

 

 

February 17th

(Friday)

Warm up with a bowl of chili at the Annual Chili Dinner Event on Friday, February 17th at the Active Living Center in Jim Barnett Park. Our celebrity waiters will be dishing out chili from 5:30 - 8pm and there will be live entertainment to keep the party going.

 

We look forward to this event every year and thank our friends at R & L Foods Inc (Wendy's), Royal Crown Bottling, Action Concrete Supplies, and Gaunt's Drug Store for their generous donations that make it possible. Please join us and make it a success!

 

Tickets are on sale at Gaunt's Drug Store on 1 Valley Avenue, Edward Jones Investments at 603 E. Jubal Early Drive, Summit Community Bank on 100 W. Jubal Early Drive, and Auto Tech Service Center on 669 N. Loudoun Street in Winchester, VA. 

 

Evan's Annual Events

February

 

 

The Chili Dinner

Mmmmmm, chili in February,that will warm you right up. Every year we look forward to this event where our celebrity waiters come out to server you chili, salad, and beverages generously donated from Wendy's, Martins, Costco, Royal Crown Bottling and more. We light up the stage with various talent including appearances from Tara Jackson and The Consonants.

 

Recaps:

2011

2010

2009

 September

 

Our Big Event

Who knew donating money could be so fun? Every year with the help of a friend of the Evans Home, we throw a great party with great entertainment, fine dining, and all of our friends.

 

Recaps: 

2010: 'The Big Event'

2009: 'Casino Night' 

December

 

 

Annual Doll Auctions

We are on our 41st annual doll auction this year! That's right, for 41 years special members of our community have donated their time, effort and creativity to dress up these gorgeous porcelain dolls that we then auction off to raise money to support our children.

 

Recaps:

2009 Winchester Star article

2009 Winchester Star features doll maker, Frances Miller

2008 Winchester Star article 

 

 

Read the latest Children's Update from our Director, Marc Jaccard.

 

 

In the News

 

42nd Annual Doll Auction posted December 1st, 2011 by Erica M. Stocks.

 

Find out why our house mother is 'the quintessential mom', posted May 9th, 2011 in the Winchester Star!

 

'Burden' for children' posted April 21st, 2010 by Adrian O'Conner, author of the Winchester Star's 'Valley Pike' column.

 

'Early years at the Evans Home' posted April 14th, 2010 by Adrian O'Conner, author of the Winchester Star's 'Valley Pike' column.

 

'Who are those guys' posted April 7th, 2010 by Adrian O'Conner, author of the Winchester Star's 'Valley Pike' column.

 

Rotary Kaleidoscope benefits Evans Home (Winchester Star - 3/23/2010). Money raised at the Rotary Club of Winchester's annual Kaleidoscope Gala usual goes towards....

 

Evans Home Takes the Cake - Twice!

Fall 2009: We are proud to announce that we've received the Friend of Education Award from the Winchester Education Association as well as the 'Distinguished Administrator Award' presented by the Virginia Association of Children's Homes.

 

Something Bigger and Greater - Evans Home created foundation for soon-to-be-deployed soldier (Winchester Star - July 6th, 2004)

 

New Lloyd House is Special Present for Future Adults (Winchester Star - July 1st, 2004)

 

‘Amazing’ Evans Home Worker Wins Award (Winchester Star - November 4th, 2003)

 

WINC Chain of Checks
Henry & William Evans Home for Children was named the recipient of the WINC Chain of Checks fundraiser 2003 which raised a total of $72,030.46 Evans Home will use the money raised to complete the construction of the  "Lloyd House" - a building where former Evans Home residents can live during the holidays or at other times.