Warming Shelter Fundraiser Makes Prom Night Affordable

(L–R) Middletown barber, Mitch Turner; Temple Sinai Executive Director, Lisa Miller; Temple Sinai member, Josephine Bloomfield; makeup artist Claudette Clausen; co-owner of Transformations salon, Stephen Sturman; and photographer Rory Jade Roche(front) during an affordable prom night fundraiser at Temple Sinai in Middletown on April 3, 2016. Holly Kellum/Epoch Times

MIDDLETOWN—Darcie Sirota, 18, was looking at a $375 La Femme prom dress before her father stumbled across a fundraiser online—a prom dress and suit sale that sold discounted formal wear to benefit charity.

Sirota, along with her mother, went to check out the April 3 event at Sinai Temple in Middletown and for a $10 donation walked away with an almost identical dress to the one she was going to buy.

“We just got the college tuition notification,” said her mother, who paid for her dress and said she was happy with her daughter’s choice.

Formal dresses for sale at an affordable prom night fundraiser at Temple Sinai in Middletown on April 3, 2016. Holly Kellum/Epoch Times