Celebrity appetizer event will aid Wishing Star

On Thursday, join Wishing Star at the Coeur d’Alene Resort for the seventh annual Wishing Star Celebrity Appetizer Challenge.

The event will begin at 5:30 p.m. and will include appetizers prepared by Coeur d’Alene Resort chefs. Nine local “celebrities” have provided each chef with their favorite recipes.

Tickets are $20 and can be purchased at the door or in advance by calling (208) 699-3940. Each ticket includes one ballot to vote on your favorite appetizer.

Additional ballots will be sold for $1, $5, $10, $25, $50 and $100. Proceeds will benefit the Wishing Star Foundation which helps grant wishes to children with life-threatening illnesses.

Call Danelle Reagan at (208) 755-5556 for more information.

Benefit spaghetti feed

Visit Spokane Valley Baptist Church at 1222 S. McDonald Road on Friday for a spaghetti feed to benefit Adelarain Richardson, a newborn with lissencephaly, or smooth brain.

Cost is $7 in advance or $10 at the door. Proceeds will help pay for Richardson’s medical bills. For more information, call (509) 838-4438 or (509) 534-1806.

Lemonade fundraiser

Yoke’s Foods in Spokane will join XO Communications employees on Friday for Alex’s Lemonade Stand Fundraising Event. From 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Yoke’s will have a lemonade stand in its parking lot. Proceeds will benefit Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation, raising money for childhood cancer education and research.

In 2000, 4-year-old Alex Scott – diagnosed with cancer when he was 1 – opened a lemonade stand to raise money for cancer research. Alex died in 2004 but Alex’s Lemonade Stands continue to raise money.

For more information, call Jacqueline Jolly Smith at (703) 547-2031.