Fall Food + Wine Festival

Supporting trauma care from home.

A taste of festivals past.

While you may not be able to enjoy delicious treats in a festival setting this year, we encourage you to take a taste of the festival home with you by supporting the vendors who generously donated their food and drink offerings to our most recent in-person event. Visit

www.fallfoodandwine.com/partners

for a list of partners. T he Fall Food + Wine Festival has long represented a way for members of our community to enjoy a great evening out and raise funds for Huntington Hospital Trauma Center at the same time. In 2020, however, we were unable to gather in person for the festival because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Since support for trauma care remains urgent, we launched the Fall Food + Wine Restival in lieu of an in-person event. We were thrilled that we exceeded our initial campaign goal, raising more than $260,000, thanks to generous community donors. Funds from the Restival are helping us continue to serve patients with potentially life-threatening injuries, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year — even during a pandemic.

While we were unable to gather and thank our Fall Food + Wine Restival donors in person, we are immensely grateful for their impactful support.

Alyce Williamson Leading by example.

Generous community philanthropists stepped up in a big way in 2020, helping us not only reach, but exceed our goal for the Fall Food + Wine Restival. We are especially grateful to Alyce Williamson, whose leadership gift inspired others to give, enabling us to raise even more funds through the Restival.

Alyce is a longtime patron of the Fall Food + Wine Festival. In fact, her involvement with the event dates back to its inception. When she learned that the 2020 event was being re-imagined as a special fundraising campaign, she knew that she wanted to continue her involvement.

“I love the festival and I love Huntington Hospital,” Alyce says. “I knew that the hospital still needed support for the trauma center, even if they couldn’t hold the physical event, so I really wanted to help.”

Alyce’s support was also inspired in part by her experience as a trauma patient here. “I am so grateful for the care that I received,” she says. ”Huntington Hospital is truly a jewel of the community, and I want to support it as long as I live.”

Help fund world-class trauma care in 2021.

The health and safety of our community continues to come first, so we will not be holding a physical event in 2021. However, the Fall Food + Wine Committee, again led by co-chairs Janet Mayeda and Nick Salata, still plans to raise funds to support the provision of lifesaving care for our region — and this year, they are kicking it up a notch! Participants can expect fun new ways to engage with our food and drink vendors, while still staying safe at home. Stay tuned and be sure to check the Fall Food + Wine website at www.fallfoodandwine.com for updates on the celebration.

And, of course, we look forward to gathering in person again at the 2022 festival.

Through her generous leadership gift, Alyce Williamson inspired others to give — helping us surpass our goal for the Fall Food + Wine Restival. A longtime Fall Food + Wine Festival patron, Alyce is pictured here (third from left) at the 2018 event.