Carla Clark | For The Republic
Andrew Gold, at left, Brayton Thornburg, Lauren Britt, Kristen Orben and Morgan Parkhurst, Team Dance Marathon Alum anxiously await the results of the answer being given by Lauren Britt during the first the Not-So Family Feud fundraiser held by Turning Point at the Commons, Columbus, Ind., Thursday, October 19, 2023.
Turning Point Domestic Violence Services’ fundraising game show will return to The Commons in downtown Columbus Nov. 14.
“The Not-So-Family Feud” will once again field six teams from area professionals to compete for points and personal pride. Tickets are expected to go on sale in October.
Last year’s event raised $64,700 for the cause.
Whittney Loyd, Turning Point president, said she ideally would like to raise $70,000 or more for her nonprofit’s work to work toward the prevention and the elimination of domestic and dating violence.
“We do this all in good fun to highlight healthy boundaries and healthy relationships,” she said.
Plus, the game show’s format also highlights healthy teamwork among people while under the “pressure” of competition.
Last October, after a brief annual report to the community, the Feud game, patterned after television’s popular “Family Feud” game show, allowed humor to reign supreme before a crowd of about 275 people.
It did precisely that as six local teams — eventual winners Bartholomew Consolidated School Corp. (which organizers hope can defend its title), law enforcement, real estate, bankers, Turning Point board alumni and the second-place Dance Marathon student alumni — battled for correct answers to match general surveys for everything from most-hated housework to reasons for being late to work.
On the latter, Holly Downey of team real estate thought for sure she a drove toward a correct answer when she told host Mickey Kim, “I’m just thinking about my team right here. So I’m gonna go with hungover.”
The remark drew considerable audience laughter, but a wrong-answer buzzer.
Announcer Alan Trisler, a former Columbus Police Department officer, tossed in his wiseacre ways at one point when contestants were asked to finish the expression “under___.” One of the answers no one guessed correctly was “underage.”
To which Trisler dryly quipped into the microphone, ”The police team would have easily gotten that one.”
Turning Point’s services include a 24-hour emergency shelter (it provided 6,568 nights of free emergency shelter for clients in 2022 alone), education programs, and a variety of non-residential services such as information and representation on legal matters such as protective orders.
For more information
https://www.turningpointdv.org
