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Please RSVP by May 28, 2010 to Ms. Karen Frost (phone): 401-874-2928 or (email): frostee@uri.edu

Event is business causal and tickets are $25 per person. View the beauty of the gardens, visit displays and learn how to best protect yourself, yard and pets from ticks. Free parking is available in the lot directly below the gardens.

Big Tick Gala Silent Auction Preview on Facebook

From now until June 4th, we'll be revealing three items per day on Facebook that will be available in our Silent Auction this year.

Items will range from event tickets, golf tickets, gift certificates for restaurants and popular local stores, art and autographed memorabilia, tick prevention and tick-bite protection packages, summer vacation necessities and trips, and more! Visit Facebook now for the daily preview.

You can also see our Preview Reviewfor the week of May 24.

Be sure to ask people in our roaming tick repellent fashion show about their outfit at the Gala this Friday!

Are you concerned about the serious health threat caused by ticks?

Would you like to make appropriate tick-borne diseases prevention programming more widely available? If you answered yes to these questions, please consider supporting the Tick Encounter Resource Center at the University of Rhode Island. Proceeds help support tick-bite prevention programs.