Wealth management group Private Ocean participated in a community service project benefiting the St. Vincent De Paul Dining Hall in San Rafael. Employees made bag lunches for St. Vincent’s Feed the Homeless program. The volunteer project is an annual event for Private Ocean, celebrating the Thanksgiving season.
The San Francisco Garden Club kicked off its 84th birthday with a Haute Hats benefits at the Four Seasons Hotel. Honorary chairs and Marinites Charlotte Shultz and Lucy Buchanan were in attendance while past president and Belvedere resident Lisa Harris walked the runway.
Almost 400 agents from Frank Howard Allen celebrated the real estate agency’s centennial anniversary in Novato with a historical slide show and a book-signing of the commemorative publication Frank Howard Allen: The First Hundred Years.
At the second annual Women’s Council of Realtors Marin chapter bocce ball tournament, which benefited Homeward Bound, the “Bada Bing Boys” took home the first-place honors.
Recently, the Marin Center for Independent Living held its annual fundraiser, Angels by the Bay, at the Corinthian Yacht Club in downtown Tiburon. Hundreds of guests enjoyed wine tasting, auctions and lunch to support MCIL’s mission of serving older adults and individuals with disabilities. The event raised over $120,000.
The San Francisco Opera Season Opener at the historic War Memorial Opera House began with Giuseppe Verdi’s Aida. The opening-night festivities included the Opera Guild’s Opera Ball, cochaired by Marin’s Mary Poland and Charlot Malin. The event raises funds for San Francisco Opera and San Francisco Opera Guild’s education programs.
Dream Team members from the University of California, Berkeley tested the waters in preparation for the RCP Tiburon Sprint Classic, the one mile race from Angel Island to Tiburon. Proceeds from the event benefit USA Swim Foundation and Hospice by the Bay.
Recently, Hospice by the Bay celebrated the opening of two new counseling rooms with a rainbow ribbon-cutting ceremony. The rooms, which were designed and dedicated by Barbara Meislin, Tiburon’s “Purple Lady” are dedicated to children coping with the loss of a loved one.
In San Rafael, guests gathered at the In Defense of Animals benefit to raise proceeds for the group’s efforts. Guests dined on vegan fare and sipped wine from Frey Vineyards.
Heidi Snow Cinader, founder and director of the Aircraft Casualty Emotional Support Services (ACCESS), and cochair, Rachel Courtney-Reilly hosted the Sixth Annual ACCESS Hearts, Clubs and Aces golf tournament at Novato’s StoneTree Golf Club. The group raised over $180,000, which will support the training of additional volunteer grief mentors who provide bereavement care to the families who have been affected by 9/11 and other air-disaster-related tragedies.
