Junior Achievement of Southwest Florida at the 4th Annual Young Chicks, Old Bags fundraiser
Ladies searching for a chance to win a Designer Relica Handbags for a not so designer price joined Junior Achievement of Southwest Florida at the 4th Annual Young Chicks, Replica Bags fundraiser. The savvy shopping event at Saks Fifth Avenue began with a silent auction of fabulous designer purses, some new and other people previously loved, included celebrity-owned bags. Festivities continued with raffle prizes, food, wine courtesy of The Naked Grape and free of charge goodies. Proceeds from the event benefited Junior Achievement of Southwest Florida, to assist teach young people today the economics of life.
Two weeks ago, Julie Esse, about nine months pregnant, looked as if she could turn into a further tragic footnote in Ivory Coast’s bloody conflict.
Instead, her story — with its twist ending — turned out to be some thing O. Henry could possibly have written, with a title about two bags of Sort O negative blood and details about scary guys brandishing Kalashnikovs and machetes.
Esse, 35, a hat and accessories designer, began having what she thought were contractions on April 6, the morning immediately after a mortar blast tore a hole in her family’s Abidjan apartment throughout the siege to capture Laurent Gbagbo, who refused to give up his presidency immediately after Alassane Ouattara was elected.
Esse, who has sickle cell anemia, was caught in a nightmare of airstrikes and sniper fire that turned Abidjan, 1 of Africa’s most modern and prosperous cities, into a war zone practically overnight.
“One day we had been living a peaceful, pleased life as well as the next day people had been becoming shot and killed outside our door,” Esse told AOL News at the time.