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Charitable event
helps nursing crisis
Enjoy some fine wines while helping a worthy cause. Tickets are on
sale now for the 21st Annual Wine and Food Under the Stars
event that has raised more than $200,000 for nursing scholarships
over the past eight years, which will be held on Thursday, Oct. 9,
from 6 to 9pm at the National Orange Show Event Center Lagoon in San
Bernardino.
The event is sponsored through a partnership between the foundations
of the National Orange Show (NOS) and St. Bernardine Medical Center
(SBMC).
Some of the finest
vineyards in the
Pacific Rim and
restaurants throughout
the Inland Empire
will offer sumptuous
fare for the 700 people
expected to attend
this year's event.
In addition to a
variety of fine wine
and food, the event
Over the past eight years, the Annual Wine and Food
Under the Stars events have raised more than $200,000
for nursing scholarships.
calls attention to the ongoing nationwide nursing shortage that is particularly
acute here in California, which is ranked the lowest of all 50 states in
the number of nurses per 100,000 population. Worse yet, the Inland
Empire's figure is below average within California. Yet, the NOS/SBMC
partnership is making a difference. Overall, the SBMC medical careers
promotion program has awarded 93 scholarships, 35 of them funded by
the jointly sponsored annual Wine and Food event.
“The impact of this now eight-year partnership between our two foundations
has been to provide scholarships for recipients in Nursing programs
for most area young people who want to pursue careers as registered nurses,”
SBMC Foundation chairman Tom Brickley said.
“Without this partnership, these young people might very well have
been denied the opportunity to become nurses, and denying the community
their talent and caring for decades to come.”
“Wine and Food Under the Stars is The National Orange Show
Foundation’s stellar contribution to the Inland Empire,” NOS Foundation
chairman Wilfrid C. Lemann said. “Since its inceptions nearly two decades
ago, The National Orange Show Foundation had distributed hundreds of
thousands of dollars to aspiring nurses in Inland Area college programs. We
now have practicing nurses serving local health care facilities who would
otherwise not be there but for the success of Wine and Food Under the
Stars.”
The brainchild of Martin Matich and Bill Leonard, The National
Orange Show Foundation will honor the founders at this year’s event. The
NOS Foundation is an Inland institution serving Southern California for
nearly 100 years.
For more information contact NOS Events Director Derrick
Vasquez at (909) 888-6788 ext. 411. Early reservations are advised,
as seating is limited. The National Orange Show is located at 689
South E Street in San Bernardino. IER
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September, 2008 INLAND ENTERTAINMENT REVIEW