JUMPINGJACK
Written by Laura Miller
CELEBRATE NEW YEAR’S AT THE
CASINO SAN CLEMENTE
New Year’s Eve was first celebrated in
Times Square in 1904 with a fireworks
show at midnight. This year, The Big Ball
will make its way down the pole in all of
it’s 6-ton, 12-foot glory covered with 2,688
Waterford Crystal triangles illuminated by
32,256 LEDs.
You could travel across the country and
spend New Year’s Eve on Times Square,
crushed in the crowd, risking East Coast
Winter weather, or you could take a
short drive downtown to the Historic San
Clemente Casino and celebrate with your
friends in comfort and style at the San
Clemente Rotary Gala.
Doors open at 7:00 pm for a
complimentary champagne reception,
dancing, a no-host bar and Vegas style
gaming. There are many New Year’s
superstitions around money and good
fortune. Step right up and get your luck
flowing for 2016.
Dinner will be served at 7:30 pm. There
are many New Year’s food rituals that
range from eating grapes and herring to
black-eyed peas and greens. These traditions hang on a belief that what you eat at
the new year will influence your bounty all
year. If complimentary champagne and a
feast catered by the very chic Iva Lee’s
Restaurant sound like a good
omen for a year of great eating
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and drinking, you are going to want to be
at this party!
Not a night owl? Need to get home early
to relieve the baby sitter? Enjoy the reception, gaming, dinner, dancing, no-host
cash bar. Then kiss, sing and enjoy your
complimentary champagne toasts and
party favors with the Times Square ball
drop at 9:00 pm.
A word about the romantic New Year’s
kiss! Story has it that those kisses not only
celebrate the moment with those dear to
us but ensure love and affection in the
coming year.
For those who prefer a later start, Rotary
is offering tickets to join the party at 9:15
for gaming, hors d’oeuvres by Iva Lee, the
no-host bar and an amazing performance
by the ever popular Jumping Jack Flash,
a Rolling Stones tribute band that features
music from 50 years of Stones concerts.
Of course, there is another opportunity
for singing, kissing and complimentary
champagne toasts at the midnight San
Clemente ball drop. Party favors and noise
makers will be provided. Making as much
noise as possible at midnight is thought to
scare away any trouble that thinks it can
hang around for 2016.
Music and dancing will continue until
1:00 am. That leaves plenty of time to visit
the special Photo Booth and take home a
memory of possibly the best New Year’s
Eve you ever had.
Auld Lang Syne has been the sound track
for New Year’s Eve since the mid-19th
century. Written by poet Robert Burns, it is
about the love and kindness of days gone
by and celebrates the belonging and fellowship we will take into the future.
This is an appropriate sentiment for our