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Our 2008 Wine Tasting event was the best ever!
Thanks to all of our sponsors and our incredible community for helping us exceed our goal of raising $30,000 for WG Foundation programs and for the WG Library. We expect to net over $35,000 … with attendance was over 350!
Originally published in the Willow Glen Resident on November 14, 2008:
San Jose school accepts Columbine victim’s challenge
ByTiffany Carney, Willow Glen Resident
Kindness and compassion are spreading fast on the Willow Glen Middle School campus, thanks to Rachel Joy Scott.
Scott, a junior in high school, was the first person killed on the Columbine High School campus in Colorado on April 20, 1999, when two of her classmates went on a killing spree. Their intention was to strike out after years of being bullied, according to police authorities.
Thanks to Rachel’s father, Darrell Scott, and her brother Craig, along with other family and friends, her legacy will continue as students around the world accept Rachel’s Challenge, including those at Willow Glen Middle School. The program first launched at the San Jose school in 2006 and has evolved every year since then. It is the only school in the city to fully participate in the program.
The Rachel’s Challenge assembly program sends presenters to schools in and out of the United States to tell Rachel’s story and to get others to accept her challenge of compassion and kindness. Willow Glen Middle School held an assembly on Oct. 21
The Willow Glen Foundation celebrated its 7th Annual Wine Tasting & Auction on Sunday, November 2, 2008, with 350 friends and neighbors in attendance.
Thank you to everyone who attended the event or donated to its success!
And we’d like to extend a very special “Thank You” to our winery sponsors …
Chateau Marie Antionette
Cinnabar Vineyards and Winery
Clos LaChance
Joseph George
Kathryn Kennedy
Stroth-Hall Cellars
Tre Ricci
Gordon Biersch
Schurra’s Fine Confections