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1 Week To Go

Then, at 8pm on Saturday, May 14th we will be having our 3rd Annual Pink Effect Breast Cancer Awareness Wine Dinner and Silent Auction. We have original art, assorted bottles of wine, some really fabulous wine signed by the winemakers themselves as well as other baskets of goodies. And there will also be a raffle for additional items. Also that night we will be viewing my first cousin Lisa Aimee Sturz' short film BeeSting which reflects is her personal experience with breast cancer. The dinner is $65 a person (tax & gratuities not included). We are hoping to raise over $3000 this year so we need your help. Please come and help us raise the funds to fight this terrible and pervasive disease. For reservations for this dinner call 828-0018. We have blocked all the time slots on line so you won't be able to make reservations through open table. The wonderful menu is also posted below.

With all the spring produce coming in, it is a great time to be eating at Zely & Ritz. Come see us soon.

Nancy, Sarig & the rest of the staff at Zely & Ritz

3rd Annual Pink Effect Breast Cancer Wine Dinner Menu

Starters:

Grape Leaves Stuffed with Rice and Dried Fruit

Crab Toast

Hummus with Pickles, Olives, Hot Sauce and Pita

Wine: Assorted Sparkling, Donated by Zely & Ritz

  First Course:

Organic Mixed Green Salad with Strawberries and Strawberry Vinaigrette

Wine: Las Lilas Vinho Verde Rose, Portugal, 2010

Donated Graciously by Sour Grapes Distributors

Second Course:

Chapel Hill Creamery New Moon Cheese Baked with NC Apples in Puff Pastry

 with Apples and Apple Cider Vinegar Reduction

Wine: Jus Sauvignon Blanc, Sonoma Coast, CA 2009

Donated Graciously by Juice Distributors

Third Course: Choice of

Grilled Rare Tuna with Sexy Beet Risotto

Or

CRF Pork Loin with Braised Red Cabbage and Mashed Purple Sweet Potatoes

Wine: La Maialina “Gertrude” Super Tuscan, Italy ‘08

Donated Graciously by Bordeaux Fine & Rare Distributors

Fourth Course – The Sweet One:

Strawberry Ginger Tartlet by Crumb

Wine: Disznoko Tokajo Aszu 5 Puttonyos, Hungary ‘00

Graciously Sponsored by Greg Donovan

  $65 per person (tax and gratuities not included) 

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am3 Sponsor

am3 is a big sponsor of The Pink Effect and this year they are giving each attendee a journal book that has:

1. Pay It Forward information (courtesy of Zkit)

  2. Yoga coupons (courtesy of Bikram Yoga of Raleigh)

  3. Branding discounts (courtesy of am3 adsource)

  What makes am3 adsource unique is that they are the first in their industry to...

BRAND FOR A CAUSE. 

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  Thank you am3, I know my friend Greg is really in need of a nice journal to write down his insightful ramblings.

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I Love It When A Plan Comes Together - by Heath Eisberg

I Love It When A Plan Comes Together

Well, here we are, forty-six days away from this years fundraiser and quite a bit has happened since I last logged on. Since then we have gotten the restaurant settled for the day, time and menu (thank you Sarig), we have the logo, we have the website (http://www.thepinkeffectnow.com), a Facebook community page, we have a number of items coming in for the auction as well as merchandise and we have about half of the seats booked for the dinner. All this with six weeks left! It looks like after doing this for a couple years we have a lot of things down that are allowing us to do other things to make this the best dinner we have done yet. I should clarify one thing. I'm saying 'we' quite a bit. Jolene has been doing the bulk of the 'heavy lifting' and I have been helping as much as I can remotely. But it does take a group to coordinate an event like this but I just wanted to give a nod to her for the dedication she has in putting this together.   And I am trying to do as much as I can to make this as successful as I can. I normally want to do everything I can for this because I feel very strongly about it but this year is a little different. A friend of mine has recently gone through treatments and surgery for breast cancer, so for me, that makes it quite a bit more of a personal effort than normal. Thankfully, she is done with her treatments and finished with her surgeries and has been given a clean bill of health and I could not be happier for her. And I am also so grateful for all the doctors, researchers, volunteers and anyone else who has a hand in making it possible for her to have the procedures that are as advanced as they are today and for making her prognosis as outstanding as it is. And that is one of the reasons why I want to help make this fundraising event as successful as we possibly can. You never know who you may touch in what way with the things you do and if anything we do here can help someone else have as encouraging and positive results as my friend then I would do this every day of every week until there was no need for us to do it any more. So forty-six days till we get a chance to get one step closer to doing something great. With all of you.H.