This year's Summer Supper calls for "Good Fun, Southern Food, and Great Cause," which is all in a night's celebration as one of Charity Circle's fundraising season's most successful events. Ted and Gloria LaRoche will welcome this year's party-goers at 6:30 p.m. Friday, Aug. 16 at their Riverbend home.

The fried chicken supper with homemade sides, prepared by Charity Circle hostesses, will be served by the LaRoche pool nestled in the modern home's park-like landscape. The yard overlooks the picturesque Stones River and is lavishly planted with Cumberland Plateau wildflowers, ferns, shrubs and trees. "New Shannon" is built and certified "Green."

This year's Summer Supper exhibits the LaRoche family's philanthropic spirit and dedication to the nonprofit and its broad work in the community.

It is a family production with Ted and Gloria LaRoche hosting while daughter-in-law Brook LaRoche and sister Lina LaRoche Warden co-chair the festivities and sister Dr. Elizabeth LaRoche co-hosts.

"Summer Supper is open to the public and I always look forward to making new friends at the party while enjoying delicious food, " said Chair Brook LaRoche. "Charity Circle is so important as a major benefactor for many of the non-profits providing basic needs in Murfreesboro."

Charity Circle of Murfreesboro is a women's organization founded in 1910 whose fundraising efforts benefit food, clothing, shelter and medicine insecurity needs for Rutherford County neighbors.

Funds are distributed quarterly to nine ongoing Rutherford County nonprofits: Child Advocacy Center, Community Helpers of Rutherford County, Domestic Violence & Sexual Assault, Doors of Hope, Good Shepherd Children's Home, Ann Campbell Early Learning Center, NOURISH Food Bank, Special Kids Therapy & Nursing Center, and The Journey Home. Twenty-seven other local agencies received funds in 2018 through Charity Circle's Special Request grant process.

Party co-chairs are Brook LaRoche and Lina Warden. Party hosts are: Lane and Adam Booten, Ruth and Sumner Bouldin, Jeanne and Tommy Bragg, Gina and Grant DeJean, Jenny and Brock East, Ginna Follis, Bailey and Scott Galloway, Sherry and Russ Galloway, Beth and Stace Hackett, Carol and Dave Hudson, Libby Hutchins, Caitlyn Roberts Jennings, Pam Kious, Beth and Cannon Loughry, Elizabeth LaRoche and John Murray, Gloria and Ted LaRoche, Brook and David LaRoche, Sonya and Terry Leeman, Leigh and Jeff McKee, Kathy and Wayne Nobles, Anita and Mark Pirtle, Rebecca and Spencer Provow, Sandy and Tom Provow, Melanie and Barry Shipp, Betsy and Jeff Slaney, Collier and Fant Smith, Valerie and Jim Smith, Dee Dee and Greg Tidwell, Lina and Jeff Warden, and Addiesue Webb.

For more information about Summer Supper, please email: Lina Warden at wejump(at)bellsouth.net For more information about Charity Circle and/or fundraising party invitations, visit charitycirclemboro.com.

Photo: Brook and David LaRoche and Lina Warden (left to right)