‘An Evening by the Sea’ to aid seniors

B.W. COOK

Lido Isle’s Lorraine Hennessey, dedicated volunteer, fund-raiser,

event chair and sometimes kitchen worker and plumbing repair woman,

is all things to Heritage Pointe, an assisted-living facility serving

Jewish seniors in Orange County. Lorraine will chair the upcoming

Nov. 22 fund-raising gala, whose theme will be “An Evening by the

Sea.”

The dinner and auction will take place at the new Balboa Bay Club

Resort Hotel. The proceeds will benefit the Heritage Pointe Resident

Assistance Program, which underwrites seniors with limited or no

financial resources.

To kick off the event, organizers, including Valerie Sloane, are

inviting patrons to brunch on Sunday, Oct. 19, at Big Canyon Country

Club in Newport Beach. Feryne Margolin and Betty Sackler, co-chairs

of the fund-raiser, will assist in the hosting duties for both the

upcoming brunch and the gala.

This year, Hank Schrimmer and Estelle and Dick Blake will be

honored for their support to the residents of Heritage Pointe. For

more information on the upcoming events and to help Heritage Pointe,

please call Pamela Davis at (949) 364-9685.

FOUNDERS PLUS

The original founders of the Orange County Performing Arts Center,

known as Founders Plus, is planning a special afternoon reception on

Sunday, Oct. 19, at the Newport Coast estate of Leonardo Flores.

The Founders Plus group is a very special and important

organization of visionaries who worked above and beyond the call of

duty to help create a cultural landmark that has been instrumental in

elevating Orange County to national acclaim and world-class status.

Some of the members are wealthy and powerful, and others are just

plain smart and hard working. Together they are a formidable bunch.

They will gather informally this year at the Flores residence to

honor Elizabeth Colyear Vincent. Ruth Ding, chairwoman of the

afternoon soiree, is being supported by Tom Moon. Committee member

Jan Landstrom of Newport Beach reports that the afternoon

entertainment will be provided by husband-and-wife team Richard

Kinsey and Susan Montgomery. For more information on Founders Plus,

please call Landstrom at (949) 640-4707.

FREE CONCERT

Kirwian Rockefeller, director of arts and humanities at the UC

Irvine Extension program, has announced a free concert for the

community this Sunday from 5 to 6:30 p.m. at Grant Howald Park in

Corona del Mar.

Rockefeller invites everyone to come with a picnic dinner feast

and enjoy a late summer concert in the park performed by Orange

County’s own Pacific Symphony. The orchestra will present Prokofiev’s

“Peter and the Wolf,” a family favorite infused with classical and

patriotic music.

The symphony presentation will be sponsored and underwritten in

part by South Coast Plaza, the First American Corporation, First

Republic Bank and the city of Newport Beach. Before the concert,

maestro Carl St. Clair will offer a free conducting clinic for

children.

For more information, please call Christopher Trela at the Pacific

Symphony (714) 876-2383.

SUPPORTING KOCE

Celebrity chef Roy Yamaguchi jetted in from Honolulu this past

week to host a very special evening at the Fashion Island restaurant

bearing his name in support of KOCE-TV President Mel Rogers and a

group of generous donors supporting the public television station.

KOCE-TV has been a hot topic in the news of late because of the

sale of the station. Television evangelists are offering top dollar

for the venue, creating a significant community debate over the use

of public airwaves and the influence of the almighty dollar.

Heavy hitters at the Rogers reception included corporate

representatives from Boeing California , OCTA, the Ford Motor

Company, the Fluor Corporation, Greenstripe Media, Wells Fargo Bank

and the Orange County Business Journal.

Yamaguchi and his chef partner Chris Garnier prepared a

spectacular four-course dinner for the patrons who had come to Roy’s

in support of public television.

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