Dining Out Will Benefit Ailing Children
A new restaurant is opening!
If that weren’t a good-enough excuse to put off cooking, then consider that your patronage at the new eatery will benefit the Children’s Miracle Network.
On Monday, Perkins Family Restaurant will present a “Children’s Miracle Network Day” as a benefit held only at its new location at Division and Trent.
The price of your meal can help make miracles happen. Half of all sales that day will be donated to the Children’s Miracle Network.
This year, proceeds from the annual event will benefit the pediatric wards at Deaconess Medical Center, Holy Family Hospital, the Regional Center for Child Abuse and Neglect, Sacred Heart Medical Center and the Valley Hospital and Medical Center.
All funds raised locally during the nationwide fund-raising event remains here to help Inland Northwest children.
The Children’s Miracle Network will be broadcast live from Disneyland and KHQ-6 studios on June 3-4.
Bubbles and ice
“Wine and Diamonds,” the Gonzaga Prep Alumni Association’s 10th annual winetasting party, will be Saturday from 7:30 to 10 p.m. in the school’s gymnasium, 1224 E. Euclid.
An added feature this year will be miniseminars on wines.
Chairing the event is John Clarizio. Honorary chair is the Rev. Robert Gobel.
Cost for the evening is $15, which includes a monogrammed wine glass. Tickets are available from the G-Prep alumni office or at local wine shops.
Call 482-4218 for more information.
Women’s Studies
“In Pursuit of New Knowledge” is the theme for Women’s Studies Month in progress at Gonzaga University through April 18.
Two events coming up are free and open to the public:
A panel will present a “Women of Color Leadership Forum” at 7:45 p.m. Wednesday in GU’s Jepson Center. The panel will include Marianne Mashima, Grace Leaf, Cha Merino and Adelina Gonzales. The women will discuss their leadership experiences as minorities in Spokane.
On April 10, Nancy Ruppel will discuss “Professional Ethics: Sexual Misconduct Within the Ministerial Relationship” at 7:30 p.m. in room 101 of GU’s Administration Building.
For more information, call Lynda Barros at 328-4220, ext. 3952.
Visiting artist
Kiki Smith, sculptor and mixed-media artist of New York City, will give two presentations in the Spokane area April 19.
Smith is the final speaker in the 1995 Consortium for the Visiting Artist Lecture Series on contemporary art, “Private Vision, Public Dialogue,” sponsored in part by the National Endowment for the Arts.
She will discuss her work at noon April 19 in the Art Building auditorium at Eastern Washington University and at 7:30 that night at the Cheney Cowles Museum.
The presentations are free and open to the public. For more information, call 359-6996.
A spot of tea
Fugazzi Bakery & Cafe, 1 N. Post, will be the site for “Tea in the Afternoon,” April 23, from 12:30 to 2:30 p.m., sponsored by members of the Miryam’s House Auxiliary.
A basket and birdhouse auction is planned.
At 6 that evening, an “Evening in Tuscany” dinner at Fugazzi’s will include an auction of artworks by Nancy Ubank and Mary Flahavin.
Proceeds from both events will benefit Miryam’s House, a residential program that provides a homelike environment for women in recovery from abuse, addiction or poverty.
Jean Brennan is auxiliary president; fundraising chair is Margie Keefe, assisted by Melissa Alfstad, Jan Bowman, Joan Caskey, Carol Collins, Sue Davidson, Marie Ferries, Maddie Ross, Gloria Ringwood, Diane Steilen, Irene Weir and Paula Youngstrom.
Tickets, $15 for the tea and $75 for the dinner, are available by calling 448-8971 or 448-8361.
Birdhouses and tea
The Spokane Art School will host “Birdhouse and Tea Garden Auction,” its annual display and live auction of works by regional artists, at 7 p.m. on April 22, Earth Day.
The evening begins with a cocktail supper accompanied by the tunes of the Planet Lounge Orchestra, followed at 8:30 by the auction featuring celebrity auctioneers and dessert.
Artworks include birdhouses, feeders and baths, bird jewelry, books. …
Votes will be taken for the People’s Choice, which will win a $150 prize. More than 60 original pieces may be previewed in the school’s new third-floor loft beginning April 17.
Tickets are $20 for members, $25 for nonmembers. Reservations should be made by April 18.
For more information, call 328-0900.
SFCC’s Women of Distinction
Four women recently received Women of Distinction awards from the Associated Women Students of Spokane Falls Community College.
Honors went to Pam Praeger, woman of the year; Sister Cathy Beckley, community service award; Tami Haseltine-Stromsted, outstanding student leader; and Mary Hyatt, outstanding SFCC faculty.
A model of humanity
Retired Spokane Community College instructor Virginia Van Camp will receive exemplary-status honors from the Washington Community and Technical College Humanities Association in recognition of her outstanding contribution to the humanities.
Exemplary status is conferred only on those whose efforts and accomplishments on behalf of the humanities are recognized as truly outstanding.
Van Camp will receive her award this week in Lynwood at the annual conference of the Washington Community and Technical College Humanities Association.