Do we need a better reason to enjoy wine? Best part is, all the money raised at both to-dos goes to support ill or at-risk kids. This year, NWWF was America’s top charity wine auction, and the Southwest Florida event in Fort Myers came in at No. The same thing, on a somewhat different scale, happens at the Lee County event. This year, a Rolls-Royce customized especially for NWWF brought $750,000, helping bring the 2016 total raised to more than $11 million. Rare wines flow freely, getting everyone in the mood for the grand auction. At the Naples event every January, winemakers and chefs from all over the world converge to serve at the pleasure of festival guests. It’s amazing to consider that two of the top 10 charity wine events in America are right here in Southwest Florida. The Naples Winter Wine Festival The Southwest Florida Wine & Food Festival So after a world-class meal, why not indulge in a world-renowned cognac? The Ritz offers 2-ounce pours of legendary Remy Martin Louis XIII cognac, made from grapes from the Grande Champagne region of France since 1874. When you are dining in The Grill Room, The Ritz- Carlton-Naples Beach Resort’s oh-so-upscale restaurant, the odds are that price is not a concern. The Marco Island MarriottCognac at The Ritz When it’s time to chow down, dozens of local restaurants donate soup for another Empty Bowls event. The effort involves volunteer potters (Judi Nicholson, Rinny Ryan, Sara Wilson, John Moon) and instructors (Clay More Studio), hundreds of students (Golden Gate, Lely, Barron Collier, Gulf Coast and Naples high schools) and even entire civic clubs (Pelican Bay Rotary Club) and arts organizations (Naples Artcrafters) in the weeks and months leading up to the actual lunch. Close to 1,000 bowls already have been made for 2017. As soon as the event is over, work begins anew on throwing and glazing what organizers hope will be enough bowls for the next year’s crowd. For a small donation, the lucky ones get to pick out a handmade pottery bowl (while the supply lasts) to sup from and to take home as a reminder of the Empty Bowls lunch that benefits the Harry Chapin Food Bank. Julian Movsesian makes the winning bid of $750,000 for a custom Rolls-Royce Dawn at the Naples Winter Wine Festival.BEST BOWLS FOR THE BUCKSĮmpty Bowls for the Harry Chapin Food BankĮvery January (Saturday the 28th in 2017), Cambier Park fills up to the brim with throngs of people hungry for a lunchtime bowl of soup and a hunk of bread. Under the direction of iTech instructor Dan Kroeker, the iTech students replaced the boxcar’s badly deteriorating walls, the floor and both doors with specially treated wood, ensuring the continuation of its important educational travels. It is known, however, that it is the type of boxcar used to transport millions of people from countries all across Europe to the Nazi-controlled concentration camps. Manufactured in Germany in 1919, the boxcar was in use during the time of WWII, although the museum does not know with certainty in what capacity. Nortman and the Nortman Family, the WWII-era boxcar has traveled to more than 90 locations in the six-county area of Southwest Florida. During the eight years it’s been on loan to the museum from Jack and F.E. Students in the construction technologies program at iTech Immokalee Technical College put their skills to work renovating the Holocaust Museum & Education Center of Southwest Florida’s 97-year-old railway boxcar and strengthening its structural integrity so it can continue in use as a traveling educational tool. Schwesinger stopped in several cities to meet with politicians, local shelter workers and others who share their goal to end domestic violence. As they cycled their way toward D.C., Mr. The Gentle’men program targets young men and boys in local public schools with a succinct message: Violence does not equal strength, and true “gentle’men” exhibit respect, loyalty, honesty and accountability toward women. Statistics show domestic violence accounts for nearly 30 percent of all violent crime committed in Collier County. Gordon Kellam, Colin Estrem and Glen Schwesinger all are members of Gentle’men Against Domestic Violence, an initiative of The Shelter for Abused Women & Children that calls on men to stand as equal partners with women to end domestic violence. Naples’ official “spokes”-men against domestic violence cycled 1,200 miles from their starting point at 7th Avenue Social to Washington, D.C., over the course of 12 days in April.
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