John Hendrickson bid $176,000.00 to dine with Marylou Whitney, outbidding Ron & Michelle Riggi. The special dinner for two will consist of Whitney’s own secret recipe for bologna tacos with pork bellies stuffed with collard greens (I defy anyone to eat this goop). The beverage is to be Old Milwaukee beer in 40 oz. throwaway bottles. The fundraiser was for the Saratoga Springs Hospital Saratoga Springs
I attended the opening night of the Philadelphia Orchestra the other night and enjoyed Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No. 1 op. 23,B-flat minor and Rachmaninoff’s Symphony No. 2 op. 27, E minor.
SPAC did a great job and it was a very pleasant night. Thank you, Marcia White.
The Philadelphia Orchestra is out of Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
The orchestra stunned the arts community when it became the first major
A month after a U.S. Bankruptcy Court judge approved its reorganization plan; The Philadelphia Orchestra Association announced Tuesday it has officially emerged from Chapter 11.
The POA addressed more than $100 million in claims, debts and liabilities with a settlement of $5.49 million. Under the reorganization plan, the 111-year-old symphony will shrink from 105 musicians to 95 and cut their pay by about 15 percent. The orchestra also got a break on its rent from its main venue, the
Officials said the organization's long-term health has been bolstered by a new labor agreement covering musicians and a shift away from defined benefit pension plans.
Whitney donates $100,000. each year to the hospital. It's done in such a manner that to create a litle fun at the Annual fundraiser.
ReplyDeleteThere is someone who has donated 3,250,000. to the hospital - and barely gets a nod.
I know the Alfred Z. Solomon Trust Fund donated many millions of dollars to the hospital but like most all of the money the fund gives, the name Alfred Solomon has to be displayed. I think the new emergency is named after him.
ReplyDeleteJust some information on that 3.1 million dollar donation. This section of an article is from the July 14, 2009 Business Review.
ReplyDelete"Saratoga Hospital has received its largest gift to date—$3.1 million.
The gift was announced during a ribbon-cutting ceremony to celebrate the completion of the first phase of the hospital’s $30 million emergency department expansion. The donation was made by the Alfred Z. Solomon Charitable Trust. The name of the hospital’s expanded emergency department is now the Alfred Z. Solomon Emergency Center."
Actually, we were thinking of someone else. And we might be slightly off on the contributions.
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