These are your party favors. Aren’t they cute? Kelly and I spent two days making toffee to go inside each little box. Then a team of friends and family put the finishing touches on hundreds of those boxes. (Special thanks to Bethany Chamberlain, Shelly Shively, Kat Fiscus, Canda Williams and Linda Woodcook.)
We’re so excited about the first birthday party for Food for Thought: A News Cafe.
Jim Dyar’s Band will play.
Award-winning cartoonists Benita Epstein and Phil Fountain will host the first-ever Cartoon-a-Thon, an improv-style art event where you give the cartoonists the scenario, people and story and they each draw their rendition of it. (They’re drawing for donations to benefit Shasta Women’s Refuge and People of Progress. All our party proceeds will benefit these two worthy causes.)
Alan Phillips did a great year-in-review slide show.
Food Goddess Andrea Charroin baked some of your favorite treats.
Lassen Peak Winery will provide wine for the no-host bar.
The party will miss some key people, such as webmaster/son Joseph Domke, who created this web site to cheer me up after I lost my newspaper job. And it will miss others, waylaid by illness, storms or other plans.
We don’t want to miss you. We hope to see you tonight at the Caldwell Community Center in Caldwell Park (the old Redding Museum of Art & History) at 7 p.m. The party ends at 10 p.m. (No more on-line RSVPs or credit card reservations, but you can pay at the door.)
Bring your cameras so we can post the best party photos online Monday.
Prepare to have fun. Happy first birthday to us, our advertisers, contributors and readers. What a wonderful team we have.
I’m off to help set up for the party. Everyone at Food for Thought: A News Cafe hopes to see you there.
