2008 St. Joseph Great Strides Walk a Tremedous Success!
 Great
Strides — A Walk to Cure CF is the
Cystic Fibrosis Foundation's largest national fund-raising event.
2008 marks the 20th anniversary of the event, which is held
throughout the country on various weekends in May. It's
purpose is to raise money to support innovative research and
care programs dedicated to adding tomorrows every day to
the lives of those with cystic fibrosis. The 2008 Great Strides
Walk in St. Joseph was held at Riverview Park on May
18th, 2008. Money is still coming in, but the St. Joseph event has already raised over $20,000! Check out the Great
Strides page for more information about this year's, as well
as previous Great Strides walks.
65 Roses Garden Party
 The
65 Roses Garden Party has been held the second Sunday in September
for the past five years. During that span, over $100,000 has
been raised to support cystic fibrosis research, primarily thanks
to the hard work of Tina Buck.
Through the years, the 65 Roses Garden Party was billed as
an elegant yet casual afternoon soirée, featuring signature
dishes from popular area restaurants such as Timothy's and Wood
Fire Trattoria, as well as an array of fine wines from Contessa
Wine Cellars, St. Julian's Winery & Karma Vista Vineyards. Music
was provided by renouned jazz vocalist Jenna Mammina and in later
years by Lake Effect Winds. Of course, extraordinary handmade
chocolate truffles were mainstays of each event, as was a very
popular silent auction.
Tina will be taking a break from the intensive
time demands of the Garden Party in 2007, but is continuing in her efforts to raise money to fight cystic fibrosis. She has just introduced her biggest box of truffles yet, the Wine & Roses Assortment. Each box has 36 luscious truffles either made with wine or made to pair with wine, and includes the brand new Vanilla Rose Truffle, created especially for this assortment. 10% of every one of these 2¼ lb boxes is contributed directly to the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. Tina even commissioned her favorite fine artist, Randall Higdon, to create the "Lavender Rose" image for the custom cover of the box.You can read more about the Wine & Roses assortment here, or purchase it directly by clicking here. We
thank Tina for her tremendous efforts the past five years, and
look forward to working with her on future projects. We encourage
you to think of Tina and The
Chocolate Garden when you need that
perfect gift or just feel like treating yourself to some extraordinary
handmade chocolate truffles.
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