When: Thursday, August 20, 2009. Breakfast for golfers at 7:00a, golf and lunch 8a – 2p. Wine Tasting, from 5:30p-8:30p.

Where: The Champions Club at Summerfield on U.S. One, in Stuart, FL.

What: The “Hot Caribbean Night” (island attire encouraged) celebration will exceed last year’s 68 different wines, and will feature food pairings from a number of local restaurants, music by the Island Steel Band, a silent auction, raffle and networking opportunity for the entire community. Try wines that are organic, exotic carambola wine, and the wares of four other wineries, as well as delicious food from area restaurants. Wear your Caribbean best and enjoy steel drum music. And bid on silent auction items from a custom diamond ring, to sports items, to small guitars signed by Willie Nelson

Who 2009 Planning Committee: Ken Coe, Southern Pride Gourmet Foods; Pete Lashenka, Riverside Bank; Dick Hall, Out2martincounty.com; Natalie Knipfer, Compupay; Jeannie Ferrara, Thy Word Public Relations; Melissa Barnes, First Command Financial Planning; Loreen Nolte, The Pampered Chef; Beth Guild, Sterling House; Stephanie Pereira, Riverwalk Cafe; Pat Schmader, The Women’s Club of Stuart; Mona Salisbury, Arbonne International; April Hope, April Daze Boutique; and Kathleen Stacey, Atlanta Bread Company.

Charity or charities sponsoring and benefiting from the event: The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, Palm Beach Area Chapter!

Sponsors: Includes, but not limited to: John Pierson’s Toyota of Stuart, First People’s Bank, Peggy’s Natural Foods, Southern Pride Gourmet Foods, Stuart Rubber Stamp & Sign Company, PSL Herbs & More, Mail Services Unlimited, Hobe Sound Chamber of Commerce, Palm City Chamber of Commerce, Dr. Lisa Grassam Chiropractic, Atlanta Bread Company, The Champions Club at Summerfield, Jim Peppler, UBS Financial, Natalie Knipfer, Compupay, Orangesnowman.com, Tara Biek Creative, Wine Styles, Out2martincounty.com, Thy Word Public Relations, Harborage, and the Certified Sommelier is Theo Snyder from Total Wine and More.

Highlights: Here’s your chance to play the links at Summerfield’s Champions Club – where a hole-in-one could win you a brand new Toyota from John Pierson’s Toyota of Stuart. The 18-hole “Champions Club” course at the Champions Club at Summerfield facility in Stuart, Florida features 6,809 yards of golf from the longest tees for a par of 72. The course rating is 72.8 and it has a slope rating of 131 on grass.  Designed by Thomas Fazio, ASGCA, the Champions Club golf course opened in 1994.

For more information: The 4-person scramble is $100pp, with an option to purchase a $130pp ticket that includes the wine tasting. The wine tasting event cost is $35pp, in advance, $40pp at the door, and $75pp VIP tickets that allow for back stage wine and food pairings. Each ticket includes one (1) raffle ticket. You do not want to miss being seen at this celebration of community support for The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, Palm Beach Area Chapter! For more information where you can purchase tickets, how you might contribute or volunteer, please contact: Ken Coe, 772-220-7980, or write: ken@kencoe.com <mailto:ken@kencoe.com> , or visit: www.treasurecoastleukemia.org <http://www.treasurecoastleukemia.org/> (rain-date set for August 27, 2009.)

At the river amphitheater in downtown Stuart (left to right): Ken Coe, Southern Pride Gourmet Foods; Natalie Knipfer, Compupay; and Pete Lashenka, Riverside Bank are the senior Board of Directors for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society of the Treasure Coast raise their glasses to toast the golfers, sponsors and donors in anticipation of another successful event. Each has given countless hours of their time to raise funds and awareness fighting blood cancers for the residents of Indian River, St. Lucie, and Martin County. Photo courtesy: Dick Hall, Out2martincounty.com.


At the River Walk Café in downtown Stuart, the 2009 volunteers raise their glasses to toast residents of the Treasure Coast in anticipation of another successful year for the event. (from left to right, back row): Stephanie Pereira, Loreen Nolte, Beth Guild, Natalie Knipfer,  Mona Salisbury, Pat Schmader, Pete Lashenka, April Hope, Kathleen Stacey, and (seated in front, left to right) Melissa Barnes, Ken Coe,  Jeannie Ferrara, and Dick Hall. Photo courtesy: Out2martincounty.com.

(from left to right): 2009 Board of Directors: Jeannie Ferrara, Thy Word Public Relations; Melissa Barnes, First Command Financial Planning; ) Loreen Nolte, The Pampered Chef; Beth Guild, Sterling House; Natalie Knipfer, Compupay; Ken Coe, Southern Pride Gourmet Foods; Stephanie Pereira, Riverwalk Cafe; Pat Schmader, The Women’s Club of Stuart; Pete Lashenka, Riverside Bank; Mona Salisbury, Arbonne International; April Hope, April Daze Boutique; and Kathleen Stacey, Atlanta Bread Company (front) Dick Hall, Out2martincounty.com.