The High River District Health Care Foundation's Big Screen Harvest Party went off without a hitch Friday, October 2.

The three-show concert at the new Sunset Drive-In featured Aaron Pritchett and George Canyon.

The foundation's Cathy Couey says it couldn't have gone better.

"Mother nature, I couldn't have written a script better for the evening, we had a harvest moon and a beautiful sunset and a great night for people to sit out and enjoy the event," she says. "It was all new to us so just everything from the concert, which was some incredible entertainment, our online auction has netted us I think over $18,000, our 50/50 sold out two and a half weeks in advance so someone's going to take home $5,000 from that and people are engaged in our Text To Donate, so by all accounts we are absolutely thrilled with how things turned out with this year's event."

It raised about $40,000 from the event itself.

Couey says they've had nothing but positive feedback after the event.

"What's really great is the families, we saw little ones of all ages out there, we saw kids sticking their heads out of sunroofs and singing and dancing along and that was really great. It was a safe, fun family event, it was a couple's night out, something for everybody."

She says, from the stage during the 8 o'clock show, there were more people with their windows open or sitting in the back of their trucks, so they were able to hear the concert playing through people's radios, but during the later show when it got a little cooler it couldn't be heard because people were back in the vehicles with the windows rolled up.

Couey says it was a good first attempt and the foundation will see where it goes in the future.

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