The Help Hershey Heal Tupperware Fundraiser offers an early Christmas shopping opportunity with a bonus -- a boost to a good dog.

Hershey, a nearly 6-month-old chocolate Labrador retriever mix, was born with severe birth defects. Some of his friends are raising money to pay for surgery on his front legs, so deformed that Hershey walks and runs on his elbows.

"Hershey doesn't know he has a handicap," says Gay Eastman of Rochester. "He has zest for life, and for chasing balls." Eastman organized the Help Hershey Heal Tupperware benefit -- Tupperware will give 40 percent of the profits to the Hershey fund.

You can shop online at www.siteimpressions.com/resources9/fundraising/TWFRCatalog09.pdf, or call Eastman at 280-7825.

Or shop in person this Sunday from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m., at Sue Stanek's Tupperware Open House, 2407 Ninth Ave. N.W.

To learn more about Hershey, go to www.pawsandclaws.org/hershey.php or http://helphershey.weebly.com/index.html.

'Hats Off to Fall'

Hat police will hand out tickets, and flappers will strut at St. Charles Catholic Daughters' fall luncheon. The theme of the occasion is "Hats Off to Fall," and the hat force will ticket everybody sporting a chapeau, vintage or new. (They're desirable tickets, the kind that involve a prize drawing.)

A generational style show will feature fashions "from flappers through current times," says Hats Off co-chair Bev Puterbaugh.

If you go

"Hats Off to Fall" luncheon

When: 11:30 a.m. Saturday, Nov. 14

Where: St. Charles Borromeo Church, St. Charles

Cost: $8 presale, available from Catholic Daughters members, or contact Puterbaugh at Mike's Food Center, St. Charles. A limited number of tickets at $9 will be available at the door.

Recycled greeting cards

Team Oshkosh B'Gosh -- Jeanne Rasmussen and her daughter, Taylor, 11 -- thank Post-Bulletin readers for donating 5,000 used greeting cards. In Scene & Heard on Jan. 10, the Rasmussens asked for cards to fashion anew and sell. Proceeds go to the Alzheimer's Association.

The artistically recycled cards are ready now. "I have birthday, thank you, anniversary, get well soon and blank note cards," Rasmussen says. And, of course, holiday cards. You can contact her at teamoshkoshbgosh@yahoo.com.

She'll also sell cards at the Pine Island Craft Show/Business Expo she's organizing. The event, Nov. 15, 1 p.m. to 4 p.m., at the Pine Island American Legion, will spotlight 48 (or more) exhibitors. (For more, see www.eventsetter.com/events/USA/Minnesota/Rochester/Trade_Shows-Industry_Expos/event92499.html.)

Rasmussen and Taylor term themselves Team Oshkosh B'Gosh in honor of Rasmussen's grandfather, Donald C. Klug, who favored that brand of overalls. He died of Alzheimer's disease 11 years ago.

Regarding refashioning cards, Rasmussen says, "This will be an ongoing project, so used greeting card donations will always be appreciated."

Karen Snyder is a Rochester freelance writer. Scene & Heard runs every Saturday in Simply Southeast. Send comments and ideas to life@postbulletin.com.

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