Peninsula People Sept 2017

S P O T L I G H T O N T H E H I L L
Jester and Pharley
Create Joyful Phundraiser
or the last 22 years, The Jester Has Lost His Jingle has given me strength
“Fand courage,” said Jesse Hernandez. Now 27, Jesse told his story at The
Jester & Pharley Phund Taste of the South Bay Soiree. “That book changed my
life. You read the book to me when I was 5 at Miller Children’s Hospital in Long
Beach,” he told Barbara Saltzman, mother of the late Palos Verdes author-artist
David Saltzman. “Thank you for giving me hope then– and now.” The Phund’s
founder read her late son’s book to Jesse shortly after its release in late October
1995 and hadn’t seen him since. Hernandez’s mother Joann had been told her son
wouldn’t live to be 8. The “Phundraiser” on July 21 at Alta Vista Park in Redondo
Beach included the 5th Annual Jester Benefit Doubles Tennis Tournament and
Food and Wine festival, sponsored by Big 5 Sporting Goods, Premier Bank of Palos
Verdes and the Original Red Onion. Visit www.thejester.org for more information.
PHOTOS PROVIDED BY THE JESTER AND PHARLEY PHUND
1. Barbara Saltzman with Jesse
Hernandez and Madison Radlein.
2. Adam Jonas MD with wife
Julie Noble MD.
3. Joe Saltzman and Norman
Panitch MD.
4. Nickie Lennertz and son
Harrison Lennertz.
5. Susan Dalton, Denise Vega
and Jennie Speciale.
6. Richard Gridley, Brandon
Stokes and Aime Claire Lager.
7. Chair Heidi Grimm presents
trophies to Janice Bittker and
Michael Lopez.
8. 1st Place Winners-Addie
Soltani and Lanana Goldstein.
9. 2nd Place Winners-Lou Stokes
and Rebecca Clites.
10. Aime Claire Lager swing.
11. Heidi Grimm, Bob Oster,
Larry Styza, Yaz Nakamoto and
Deborah Ford.
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12 Peninsula • September 2017