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November 18, 2009
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Having Fun &
Helping Others!
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| TONIGHT, support a great cause—Wounded Warrior Project—while enjoying $4 beer, wine & rail drinks at Lotus Lounge, 6-10pm. We're hosting a Happy Hour with EagleBank Bowl. Suggested donation: $10. Info |
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We were delighted to participate last night in the “Suit Up” Soiree at Hudson Restaurant to benefit Suited for Change.
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Capitol Institute’s Cara Townsend and host and SFC member Barbara Merola were pleased with the support for a group providing professional attire and career and life skills to low-income women.
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MSA’s Martha and Lilly Harris with Lorena Mora, whose Mexican non-profit, Foundation Aldrete, helps children.
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Freelance writer Laura Carlson and CNN correspondent Sandra Endo. Skyy Vodka sponsored the event, and Hudson donated 15% of bar sales to SFC.
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Buddies!
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Last night we also headed out to Herndon’s Audi Forum for the 5th annual Life is Sweet gala benefiting Best Buddies of Virginia. Former White House pastry chef Roland Mesnier, participating for the fourth consecutive year, is flanked by Oakton High School’s Best Buddies director Kevin Bennett and Life is Sweet chair Jan Rivas.
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Best Buddies Young Professionals board members Alicia Sovart, Christa and James Barvinchak, and Jennifer Vasquez. This year’s Life is Sweet was dedicated to the late Eunice Shriver, a Best Buddies board member.
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Chef David Guas (right), with his Best Buddy Chris Battle, was one of many DC-based pastry chefs who showcased their desserts. David’s cookbook, Dam Good Sweet, released November 1, has recipes inspired by his New Orleans upbringing.
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Tequila!
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| Also last night, we snapped Richard Sandoval, chef/owner of Zengo (and new DC spot Masa 14—and a soon to open NYC spot) who prepared extraordinary Asian-Latin fusion dishes to try… with tequila! Who knew that different kinds of premium tequila, like wine, could be drunk with various courses of fine dining! |
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Reuben Aceves is an international tequila ambassador. (Why didn’t they tell us about that option in career counseling?) He represents Casa Herradura, Mexico’s second oldest—and some say top—tequila house, and his mission is to introduce sophisticated tequila to the US.
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Protecting Children!
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Last night, we visited the Mexican Cultural Institute on 16th Street for a cocktail reception celebrating the new partnership between Innocents at Risk and Airline Ambassadors Int'l, which educates flight attendants to observe signs of trafficking. Mexican ambassador Arturo Sarukhan is flanked by wife Veronica Valencia-Sarukhan and Innocents at Risk founder Deborah Sigmund.
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Alonzo Pena, DAS in Customs Enforcement, and Sandy Fiorini, who’s spearheading efforts to get American Airlines to incorporate training for its 19,000 flight attendants to recognize trafficking, spoke about the need to protect children around the world.
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Special Assistant to the President Kareem Dale and Epoch Times’ Alessandra Gelmi. One victim is trafficked over international borders every minute. Innocents at Risk has established partnerships with all the relevant government agencies; Administration representatives said they’re now working hard to prevent exploitation.
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Innocents at Risk has its big fundraiser this Saturday, the Capital City Ball, at The Washington Club, which has nothing to do with this picture, but we loved the mural along the staircase.
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WHERE TO BE SCENE:
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| Thursday, December 3 from Noon – 1:30 PM, join the Georgetown University's McDonough School of Business at Zola for an afternoon information session. Its Executive Education department is having a lunchtime dine and learn for anyone interested in pursing a Global MBA or Executive Master's in Leadership. RSVP |
Wednesday, November 18, Pink Jams! presents the Justin Trawick group and Memphis 59 at the Clarendon Ballroom (3185 Wilson Blvd, Arlington). See ad to the right for more details or click here.
Wednesday, November 18 from 6:00pm - 10:00pm WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: Fundraiser & Cocktail Hour at Lotus Lounge, 1420 K Street NW. Hosted by EAGLEBANK BOWL & The Scene Bisnow. RAFFLE FOR 2009 EBB GAME TICKETS + EBB Street Team giving away door prizes & more! Light passed hors d'oeuvres 6 - 8 PM, HAPPY HOUR SPECIALS EXTENDED UNTIL 10 PM. $10 suggested donation to benefit the Wounded Warrior Project http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=195205766498&ref=mf
Wednesday, November 18, at 6:30 pm, come to the Red, Heart and Soul Fall Gala at the Waterford at Fair Oaks, 12025 Lee Jackson Memorial Highway, Fairfax, VA 22033, brought to you by Devotion to Children. Help to raise funds and awareness for affordable childcare for families in need. Raffle, silent auction, dinner & dancing. Wear red, business attire or black tie optional. Tickets: $100, www.devotiontochildren.org See ad to the right for details.
Wednesday, November 18 from 7:00 – 9:00 PM, join the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities for Art Salon: Poetry In Motion at Long View Gallery, 1234 9th St, NW. Cocktails, art and poetry. Admission: Free. For more information, visit www.dcarts.dc.gov.
Wednesday, November 18 from 6:00-8:00 pm, join Heart’s Delight’s Young Professional Group - the New Vintage and Eat Local/Drink Local at Blue Ridge in Glover Park. Esquire’s Best New Chef, Barton Seaver will pair his southern regional fare with local wine & beer. All to raise money for the American Heart Association. Blue Ridge Restaurant 2340 Wisconsin Avenue, NW Tickets: $50 ($25 is tax-deductible) www.hdthenewvintage.org or call (703) 248-1720
Wednesday November 18 from 6-8 PM, join the Corcoran College of Art + Design at the M Street Renaissance Hotel's M Bar (1143 New Hampshire Ave NW) for Put a Corc in It!, a wine and cheese tasting celebrating the installment of Corcoan College's rotating student art exhibition at the hotel. The event is free, but you must RSVP to Danielle@lindarothpr.com. Happy hour specials include
$5 glasses of wine and 1/2 priced bottles
Wednesday, November 18 and every Wednesday Night, from 8 to 10PM, Ha Ha at Ri Ra, Live Standup Comedy Show at Ri Ra Irish Pub, 2915 Wilson Blvd., Arlington,VA. FREE. www.StandupComedyToGo.com
| Friday, November 20 at 7PM, The Power of Bicycles - World Bicycle Relief. Hosted by CycleLife USA at 3255 K Street, NW, Washington. Featuring WBR President F.K. Day. Free with complimentary food and beverages. "World Bicycle Relief, is a stunningly simple idea: a child can get to school, a parent can find work, and a rural medical worker can reach eight families with AIDS...All because people have wheels, and they can move." |
Vanessa Meccarielli, Heather Mahoney, and Madeleine Starkey contributed to this issue.
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