$3,000 Raised for AIDS Programs With Tune Show

A block of tickets to the Tommy Tune program Friday at the Orange County Performing Arts Center enabled the Gay and Lesbian Community Services Center of Orange County to raise about $3,000, according to a Community Services Center official.

The money will go toward AIDS education and counseling programs.

The Pacific Symphony, sponsors of the Tune program, had provided the Community Services Center with 140 tickets at a discount price. The group sold 122 of the tickets at the regular price and kept the difference. Seventy people paid an additional amount to join Tune at a post-concert party.

The 15-year-old Community Services Center operates on a yearly budget of about $400,000, according to spokesman John Flake, who said the “vast bulk” of the money comes from private donations.

As of Oct. 31, the total number of acquired immune deficiency syndrome cases reported in the county was 1,208, according to Teri Howard of the Orange County Health Care Agency. Of those, 740 people have died.

Howard said that the AIDS case rate per 100,000 people in the county is 51.7 as of Sept. 30, compared with 75.9 in California and 43.0 in the United States.