Fine Food And Drink Will Make An Epicurean Delight

Any way you look at it, “Pig Out In the Park” was a success - again. Riverfront Park was jampacked Labor Day weekend as thousands of people feasted on a wide variety of food from several of Spokane’s favorite eateries.

Epicurean Delight will offer a similar opportunity next month, but in a more formal, indoor setting.

Epicurean Delight will be from 6:30 p.m. to midnight Oct. 20 at the Spokane International Agricultural Trade Center.

The Inland Northwest’s finest restaurants, wineries and breweries will combine their talents to benefit the Deaconess Women’s Clinic at the West Central Community Center.

Mary Beth Nethercutt will serve as honorary chair and Scott Jones as benefit chair. Steering committee members are John Allen, Mary Dunn, Pati Dahmen-Ray, Doug Fisher, Roberta Greene, Dennis Guenther, Barbara Hahn, Carole Jones, Marti Kransberger, Marcea Mandsager, Nancy McDaniel, Jennifer Otterstrom, Bill Poppy, John Richards, Conni Stamper and Marilyn Stocker.

Dancing starts at 9 and continues until midnight.

Participating restaurants, wineries and breweries will compete for awards for Best Display, Best Hors d’oeuvres, Best Entree, Best Dessert, People’s Choice, Interrelationship with Guests and Outstanding Grand Award for the 1995 Epicurean Delight.

Tickets are available through the Deaconess Medical Center’s Foundation office. Prices are $125 each; $1,250 for a table of 10, or $1,500 for a sponsored table. Call Marti Kransberger at 458-7228 for more information.

Delta Gamma meets

The fall season begins for Delta Gamma Alumnae Thursday at the home of Colleen Baker. Jeanne Goss and Diane Morrison will serve as hostesses for the dinner meeting.

Nancy Fike, a Delta Gamma alumna and board member of the Spokane School District, will be guest speaker.

President Christine Haener and two new members, Kari Carbon and Kelly Carney, will serve as advisers to chapters at Whitman College, Washington State University and the University of Idaho.

Mark Dixon recently received the group’s scholarship to continue graduate studies at Eastern Washington University.

GU Pilgrimage

More than 300 Gonzaga University students will lace up their boots Saturday for the 27th-annual Pilgrimage along the Coeur d’Alene River to Cataldo Mission.

The students, carrying the Pilgrimage Cross, will begin the nine-mile trek, “Walk on the Wild Side,” at 9 a.m. The event concludes with Mass at 4 at the mission, Idaho’s oldest building.

National DAR VP to speak

Mary Jane Waterbury, a national vice president and past state regent of the Daughters of the American Revolution, will discuss DAR schools at a Tuesday noon sandwich luncheon at Liberty Park United Methodist Church.

Marguerite Neel, a past Washington state regent, will also be a special guest.

Hostesses of the Spokane Garry Chapter are Helen Cooke and Dorothy Nelson.

One decade down

Members of the South Hill Senior Center will celebrate the group’s 10th anniversary with an international food fair at 5 p.m. Sept. 23.

Foods representative of China, Mexico, Italy, Germany and Greece will be featured. Casino night with games of blackjack, roulette and chuck-a-luck follows dinner. Door prizes donated by area merchants will be auctioned. Call 535-0803.

Art exhibit planned

Dale Chihuly, a glass artist, will exhibit his works for the unveiling of Gonzaga University’s Jundt Art Center in a formal dedication Oct. 27.

Chihuly’s exhibit will run through Dec. 15. The academic portion of the facility opened for student instruction Aug. 30.

Ellen Goodman will lecture

Ellen Goodman, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, will be the first guest of the 1995 Voices Contemporary Lecture Series.

Goodman, an associate editor with the Boston Globe, will speak at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 10 at Gonzaga University’s Martin Centre. She received the Pulitzer Prize in 1980 for Distinguished Commentary.

Tickets, $15 for general admission $25 for seating on the floor, are available through G&B, 1-800-325-SEAT.