April Thornton & David Jones Win Dancing Trophies at 2011 Dancing with the Randolph Stars Fundraiser

For an encore, it had all of the excitement of a main event. The Randolph Community College Foundation's second Dancing with the Randolph Stars repeated the success of 2010's inaugural event. Preliminary figures reported Saturday night showed the fundraiser had collected over $97,000 before expenses. All proceeds will go directly to scholarships for Randolph Community College students.

April Thornton, director of public relations and development at Randolph Hospital, and David Jones, director of the N.C. Zoological Park, took home the 2011 Dancing with the Randolph Stars trophies by getting the most votes from the community at $10 a vote. Votes were solicited before the event and during the evening at the dinner show held at AVS Catering and Banquet Centre for the second year. Thornton and Jones, who were dancing together for the second year, performed to Elvis Presley's "Fever." The winning trophies were presented to them by last year's winner Bill Hoover, who carried a life-size cutout of dance partner Laura Wilson, who could not attend.

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