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Durty Nellie's Hosts NIU Charity Concert Event

Two Northern Illinois University Funds to Benefit

PALATINE--Durty Nellie's West Irish Pub is pleased to announce a large concert fundraising event to benefit two NIU-related funds: the DeKalb-Sycamore Community Memorial Fund and NIU's February 14 Student Scholarship Fund. The University was recently involved in a tragic campus shooting with six student fatalities.

The benefit event will take place on Monday, March 10, 2008 from 3:00pm-Midnight. Local bands will perform a variety of acoustic acts for a minimum entrance donation of $10. Scheduled bands to appear are: Stellar Road, Modern Day Romeos, Sixteen Candles, Mr. Myers, Mr. Blotto, Murley Shertz, Mer, Dave Tamkin, Dot Dot Dot. Stellar Road will also be playing in DeKalb for a regularly scheduled show at Starbusters located at 930 Pappas Dr. on NIU's campus.

100% of the cover charge will be donated, as well as net proceeds from food and beverage sales during the event.

This is an All Ages event, families are welcome to attend.

The DeKalb and Sycamore Chambers, in cooperation with the DeKalb County Community Foundation, have established a Community Memorial Fund. The purpose of this 501c3 non-profit corporation fund is to collect donations to be used for a community remembrance.

Northern Illinois University has established a scholarship fund to honor the memory of the students slain in the February 14 tragedy. The February 14 Student Scholarship Fund will receive gifts through the NIU Foundation for the general scholarship fund and work through the NIU Scholarship Committee to distribute scholarships to deserving students in the name of those who lost their lives in the shooting at Cole Hall.

Durty Nellie's will donate proceeds to both charities.

The Northern Illinois University shooting was an incident that took place on February 14, 2008, during which a gunman shot multiple people on the campus of Northern Illinois University in DeKalb, Illinois. The incident happened at the campus's Cole Hall at approximately 3:05 p.m. The school placed the campus on lockdown and cancelled all classes until February 25.

A total of six people, all residents of Illinois, died as a result of this incident:

Gayle Dubowski, 20 - Carol Stream
Catalina Garcia, 20 — Cicero
Julianna Gehant, 32 — Meriden
Ryanne Mace, 19 — Carpentersville
Daniel Parmenter, 20 — Elmhurst
Steven Kazmierczak, 27 — Champaign (perpetrator)


A total of sixteen people were injured in this incident:

Lauren Debrauwere — Lake Barrington
Samantha Dehner, 20 — Carol Stream
J.D. Donohue, 19 — Rolling Meadows
Ryne Erickson — Des Plaines
Brian Karpes, 27 — Rolling Meadows
Patrick Korellis, 22 — Lindenhurst
Jeff Malina — Glenview
Harold Ng, 21 — Mundelein
Joseph Peterson, 26 — DeKalb (course instructor)
Unnum Rahman, 19 — Plainfield
Maria Ruiz Santana, 19 — Elgin
Jeremy Walker, 20 — Caledonia
Sherman Yau, 20 — Naperville


For more information, please contact Durty Nellie's. We hope to make this an extremely charitable and successful event in the wake if such a local tragedy. Go Huskies!

Durty Nellie's West Irish Pub, 180 North Smith Street in Downtown Palatine. (847) 358-9150. www.durtynellies.com

Yup, finally after many months of auditions... Stellar Road has aquired one of the area's most talented players. Maurice Jones: Drummer / Producer, has officially joined the squad. I got a chance to see them at their first performance together in Peoria, IL this past Friday and let me tell you he's got some seriously "tasty" grooves and ridiculous chops. Stellar Road's live sound has taken took a huge leap. From the intro to the first song to the end of the third song the chant from the crowd was "Maurice! Maurice!" An awesome sight to see all the boys smiling after a long hiatus with the band. After talking to Maurice Jones in person for a few minutes he had this to say before he took the stage on Friday, "I've been so impressed by these guys. Their unique and original songwriting craft is something that I've always wanted to be a part of. I think my experience can contribute to this and I'm excited for the challenges ahead."

Of all the tunes they played that night, the new ones really caught my ear. Songs like Heaven, Legitimate and Gotta Make Away we're really grooving that night. Can't wait for everyone to hear them! Get your asses out to a show!

PS. House of Blues on January 5th!

Shaun Quain
STELLAR ROAD CREW
SQuain@stellar-road.com