Fund-raiser Cleans Up for Animal Group

If you’re going to go out and get your wheels scrubbed, you could do worse than having it done by dancers and other staffers at The Lodge. That’s what a lot of people discovered this past weekend, when the Cars and Stripes charity car wash there (pictured) raised about $20,000 for the Metroplex Animal Coalition. Besides reminding you of that famous scene in Cool Hand Luke, the afternoon event featured a buffet, a “dunk-a-dancer” booth and a pet psychic, who took a crack at our mutt called Charity. (I sort of lost faith in the psychic, though, after she ran her hands across Charity and asked, “She’s a female, right?”) Lodge owner Dawn Rizos says the fund-raiser was such a success, she’s thinking of doing it again.