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A Royal Culinary Event Patricia Rain Coming up in September
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Help the Vanilla Queen!
A Royal Culinary Event Fit for a Queen
Fundraiser for Patricia Rain
A royal culinary fundraising event is being planned on behalf of Patricia Rain, the Vanilla Queen, to cover huge medical expenses incurred in her healing journey with breast cancer and now recovery from liver resection.
Please read Patricia's blog to keep up on her healing. We are pleased to report that she is doing splendidly! Your prayers are working!
She sends you all much love and thanks.
What is it?
A luncheon featuring the talents of many local chefs, local wines, live music, silent auction.
Why Contribute?
Huge medical costs and living expenses need to be paid and everyone can experience the joy of giving back to this wonderful woman who has lived her life in sacrifice for others. Whether you donate to the auction or the chef tasting, this is an excellent opportunity to showcase your business and/or talents.
What we need
We need you to come to the event!
First and foremost we want to invite everyone to attend the event. Patricia is well-known and loved in culinary circles all over the United States. As such, we expect you will experience culinary delights you have only dreamed of. Tickets will go on sale in August.
Please continue to return to this site to see a list of auction items, our sponsors and donors, and chefs who will delight you with their creations!
Auction items and donations
We’ll highlight the silent auction and raffle prizes at the microphone throughout the event so your business will receive excellent exposure. We are looking for items and services.
This event is sponsored by UnitedWay.
Donations are tax deductible.
For information about the raffle or silent auction, contact:
Anna Marie Gotti
(831)227-0744
annmarievgo@aol.com
To make a donation of items or services, please submit the donation form.
Chefs and food
We need chefs to come and contribute their favorite food for the event.
This event will provide an excellent opportunity for your food business to showcase your food in an environment of over 100 food lovers and professionals. A list of all donors will appear at the event, and signage with contributors’ names will be prominently displayed.
If you are a farmer or grocery store and like to help out, we will gladly take donations of food.
For information regarding food donations, contact:
Stephany Buswell
(831) 535-2346
stephany@cruzio.com
Chefs, please note: We will assist you with expenses if you let us know your need!
Please spread the word
We'd appreciate it if you would download a pdf version of this web page that comes with a donation form, and pass it on to your friends and family. A flyer will be posted her shortly for you to place in store windows, community bulletin boards, etc.
Who is the Vanilla Queen?
Throughout much of the world, Patricia Rain is most noted for her work on behalf of vanilla growers worldwide. She founded the International Tropical Farmer’s Network to provide a means for growers to share production information, to explore Fair Trade and organic certification options, to learn new strategies for marketing their crops, and to create a united position for fair wages and the opportunity for better lives for vanilla farmers and their families.
For most of her adult life Patricia Rain has been working with under-represented people. Whether it was writing school programs for slow learners, working with inner-city youth in San Francisco in the 1960s, with mentally ill adults in San Mateo County in the 1970s or acting as the voice for poor tropical commodities producers, her focus has been on assisting others. Being a member of the Global Women's Leadership Network has provided an abiding passion to assist women in developing countries to establish independent revenue streams to support themselves and their children. Since 2001 when she launched The Vanilla.COMpany online, she has dedicated countless hours working with farmers and women in developing countries. Even while dealing with breast cancer and being in treatment since 2003, she has continued to work for change.
Patricia was diagnosed with Stage IV (very advanced) breast cancer in 2003 but managed miraculously to get into complete remission twice. We feel this is due to the large outpouring of love, mantras, masses and prayers sent her way from loyal subjects, devotees, and admirers from all around the world who have themselves already been recipients of her love and sacrifice. Recently, cancer was again detected in her liver but fortunately limited itself to one tumor which was successfully removed along with 40% of her liver which her body is now hard at work rebuilding.
At this time, Patricia is in need of funds to pay for her mounting medical bills as well as living expenses. There are many costs that are not covered by Medi-Care, including supplements, medical equipment, food, etc. Additionally, she is assisting a young Somali get out of Somalia where he faces certain death, and into Uganda until/unless he can get amnesty and come to the US. She also provides vitamins and essential care needs to a single mother and her family in Uganda.
Patricia feels that her work on the planet is not complete and intends to dedicate her time on earth assisting women in developing countries. She is also dedicated to her two grandsons and would like to instill in them a strong sense of stewardship for our planet. This is your chance to help this wonderful woman continue to live a life of giving on behalf of others.
For general event information about the Patricia Rain benefit, contact:
Kathy Long
(831)335-2152
public@katandmouse.com
Thank you all!
This event is sponsored by UnitedWay. • Donations are tax deductible.