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Rockin for the Troops Concert featuring Gary Sinise and the Lt. Dan Band

Jul 17, 2010 06:00 AM

Rockin’ for the Troops Concert
Saturday, July 17, 2010
Gates open: 12:00 PM
Tickets: $25

All ages, general admission

Presented by: NAVISTAR International Corporation
All Sales are Final. Limited On-site Parking - $10

Featuring Gary Sinise and the Lt. Dan Band

For more information on concert details and ticket sales, please visit: http://operationsupportourtroops.tickets.musictoday.com/OperationSupportOurTroops/calendar.

Cantigny Park is closed due to the concert event. It will be open to ticket holders only beginning at 12:00pm.

Charge by phone: 800-594-TIXX (8499)

EVENT SCHEDULE

12:00pm
Park Opens to Ticket Holders
Parking at Cantigny $10.00/car (First come basis)
Off Site parking available – bus to Cantigny from off-site parking
Food Vendors and All Booths Open
Expo Tent Open

12:00 - 5:00pm
Freedom Express Mobile Museum (in front of Visitor Center)

12:00 to 5:00pm
Military Activity Area - Near 1st Division Museum
US Army - Video Truck, Climbing wall & Football toss.
Marines. trucks, gear, weapons and a pull up bar
Navy - gazebo with a pull up bar
Air Force Command Center Alpha or Stealth Trailer or Orange County Chopper
Civil Air Patrol (CAP) - Aerospace crafts

12:00 to 9:00pm
Outreach Tents
Miss Illinois - pictures, promote OSOTIL,
Yellow Ribbon Distribution
Writing Letters to the Troops
Learn about OSOTIL and food donations

3:00pm
Naperville Municipal Band - Military Activity Area

MAIN STAGE

4:15 TO 5:45pm
Blue Moon Swamp

6:00 – 6:45pm
Opening ceremonies with Jack Shiffler
Sponsor Thank you
Opening prayer – Fr. Ernie Norbeck, Navy Veteran, Pastor at King’s Church
Pledge of Allegiance/National Anthem – Ken Carlson
Shavethehead.org
Wild Fire Harley Davidson entrance to park

7:00 to 8:30pm
Rockie Lynne

8:45pm
Forest Gump Intro

8:50 to 10:45pm
Gary Sinise and the Lt. Dan Band with Grand Finale Fireworks

Operation Support Our Troops-Illinois, Inc. (OSOTIL) was founded in 2003 by Deb Rickert, mother of a West Point cadet, as a branch of a national organization whose mission was to support the troops deployed overseas in Afghanistan and Iraq. Deb began collecting donations of snacks, toiletries, and other "creature comforts" not readily available to the troops and sending boxes of these items using her dining room table as the base of operations.

To date, OSOTIL has sent over 25,000 packages to troops in Afghanistan and Iraq, raised money to expand the veterans care programs at Hines VA Hospital and Fischer House, and developed programs to support families of the deployed as well as returning Iraq and Afghanistan veterans.