The planning committee for Men Who Cook 2010 is finalizing the details for this year’s event, to be held Feb. 20, at Safari Texas in Richmond. The festivities begin at 6:30 p.m., with the Billie Ledbetter Orchestra providing the evening’s musical entertainment.
Members of the Men Who Cook 2010 Planning Committee members include Tim Kaminski, Jan Russell, Kenny Kucherka, Lonnie Meadows, Cindy Sutton and Alicia Casias. Not present for the picture were Bobbi Treacy, Judi Vernon, Marcia Holmes, Teresa Gibson, Margie Pollard, Barbara Minton, Dee Koch and Vincent Morales.
The event will feature 70 celebrity chefs and auctioneer Jeff Council will be on hand to dispense with seven items in the live auction, including trips to South Padre Island, a weekend trip to the Host Reserve in Leakey, three days and two nights on a 50-foot houseboat on Lake Travis, a guided trip to the Original Round Top Antique Fair in March, a meal for 11 prepared by Chef Rey in the Old Potting Shed at Union Chappell Farms in Fulshear and an evening of appetizers and drinks at Old South Plantation, hosted by Jimmy Cantu of Pier 36. Also up for auction are four tickets to the Jonas Brothers concert at the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo.
Proceeds from the evening are used to support classroom projects by Lamar CISD teachers that would otherwise go unfunded. L.E.A.F. also offers scholarship to graduating Lamar CISD students and to paraprofessionals working on their teaching certificates.
In nine years of existence, LE.A.F. has invested more than $1 million into LCISD schools.
Underwriters at the Silver L.E.A.F. level for the event include Aetna, Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Carolyn and Neil Banfield, Consolidated Home Health, Consolidated Property Advisors, Fluor, Gurecky Manufacturing, Jackie Leaman, Jan and Lee Leaman, Linebarger Goggan Blair and Sampson LLP, Memorial Hermann – Sugar Land, Nalco Company, Sandra and Bill Billingsley, Trina and Andy Sanford, United Environmental Services, Universal Corrosion Specialists and United Healthcare.
Thirty individuals and business will serve as Bronze L.E.A.F. sponsors. That list includes include Amegy Bank, Bass Construction, Bonbrook Plantation, Coastal Butane, DBR Engineering Consultants, DHK Development, Drymalla Construction, Firethorne, First Southwest Company and Gilbane. Also, IDC Inc., Imperial Sugar Company, Kathy and Lonnie Meadows/NewFirst Insurers, Lakemont/Walnut Creek, Lee Mahlmann, DDS, McGriff Seibels & Williams and NewFirst National Bank.
Bronze sponsors also include Null Lairson, OakBend Medical Center, PBK Architects, Paul and Janice Knight, Perdue, Brandon, Fielder, Collins & Mott LLP, RiverPark West, The Hunton Group, Southwest Water Company, Thompson & Horton LLP, Trendmaker, VLK Architects, Vinson & Elkins and Williams Development & Construction Inc.
Tickets for the gala are $50. For more information regarding L.E.A.F. or to purchase tickets, contact Janice Knight at 832.223.0334.
By: FortBendNow Staff on Mon, Feb 8, 2010
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