Events and Activities

Annual Benefit at Ravinia

Featured Music of Cole Porter

The 2009 ediition of SELCFIA’s annual Evening at Ravinia, a fund raising event that featured dinner and a concert, this year focused on the music of Cole Porter.

“An Evening of Cole Porter,” Sunday August 16, featured vocalists David Hyde Pierce and Victoria Clark, with Rob Fisher conducting. It began at 7:30 p.m., following a catered dinner of sandwiches, salads, an open bar and sweets. The ticket for the entire evening, with pavilion seats, was $110.

The program, which was first presented in January to open the 11th season of Lincoln Center’s popular American Songbook series, received rave reviews, with Variety saying it opened the series “with sophisticated style. This one-night-only affair could easily be packed up and reproduced elsewhere -- and definitely should be.” Its review adds that Fisher “seems to have made his job easy by inviting precisely the right singers.”

Pierce, best known for the role of Niles Crane on the television series Frasier, won a Tony for lead actor in a Broadway musical (Curtains) in 2007. Clark won a Tony for best lead actress in 2005 for The Light in the Piazza. Together, they put together a totally fun-filled evening of first rate entertainment.

Taste-Tempting Cookbook
Asian Chicken Wings
Baked Salami
Hot Clam Dip for an Army
Colonial Pumpkin Soup
Italian Sausage Soup
Parisian Onion Soup.
Artichoke Pie
BBQ Beef
Stuffed Sesame Grilled Shrimp
A wide range of salads and vegetable dishes, breads, cookies, candies and relishes.
And desserts:
Banana-Cranberry Parfait
Chocolate Striped Oranges Southern Chocolate Rum Pecan Pie.

Best in the Neighborhood, a new cookbook collecting delicious recipes from the kitchens of SELCFIA volunteers, care recipients, staff and friends, offers 250 wonderful food choices. If you can’t find something you love, you’re just not trying.

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Illinois honors state’s Faith in Action programs

Gov. Pat Quinn proclaimed Sept. 20, 2009, Faith in Action Sunday in Illinois, encouraging all citizens “to promote the spirit of volunteerism in our families and communities across the Land of Lincoln.”
Southeast Lake County Faith in Action Volunteeis one of 31 FIA chapters honored for their “volunteer care for people with long-term health needs.”
“Faith in Action programs are coalitions of local religious congregations, healthcare providers, community organizations and service providers who work together to provide those in need with non-medical assistance,” the proclamation says. “Through Faith in Action, Americans of every faith ... work together to help members of their communities … maintain their independence for as long as possible.”