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William Sansum Diabetes Center hosted its 15th annual Taste of the Vine at QAD in Summerland with the 350 guests raising around $100,000. The popular event, which featured 30 food and wine vendors, has raised more than $1 million for the 73-yearold center since launching 16 years ago. “It is a great fun event, but we never lose sight of our aims,” says Ellen Goodstein, executive director. Ubiquitous City College Foundation CEO Geoff Green conducted the live auction, which featured a Tuscany culinary escape, a vacation in Ireland, a Costa Rica getaway, and platinum passes to the Santa Barbara International Film Festival. Special guest was celebrity chef Charles Mattocks, host of Discovery Life’s Reversed, the first TV reality show about diabetes. He is also the nephew of reggae legend Bob Marley. There was also a special performance by Jackson Gillies, winner of Santa Barbara’s Teen Star competition last year, who suffers from Type 1 diabetes. Among the supporters turning out for the cause were Ricardo and Dinah Calderon, Hannah-Beth Jackson, Bruce and Judy Anticouni, Tina and Louise Casey, Gordon and Melba Sprague, Roger Durling, Mike and Carolyn Karmelich, Bill Burtness. Robert Nagy, Ken and Shirley Waxman, Chris and Pamela Haskell, and Don and Libby Toussaint.
CEO of SB Hospice David Selberg with Veronica Mishou, guest artist Beverley Jackson, and Abby Nader (photo by Priscilla)
showing in the gallery they donated,” adds Beverley. Among the oh-so tony throng turning out for the occasion were Glen and Gloria Holden, who drove up from their Bel Air home, Adnan and Rana Nader, Gretchen Lieff, Ronnie Mellen, Nancy Gifford, Hiroko Benko, Frank Hotchkiss, Susie Mitchell, David Selberg, Bobby Knoop, Julie Bowden, Mary Jane Buchanan, and Nelson and Sandra Hayashida.
Ashley McGowan and her father, John McGowan; Hospice volunteers Amy Turner, Sudi Staub, and art show guest Raquel Julea (photo by Priscilla)
Beverley Thrills After being a successful News-Press columnist and author, society doyenne Beverley Jackson, who marks her 89th birthday in November, has discovered a successful new pastime. Beverley hosted her debut art exhibition, featuring 25 collages, at the Leigh Block Gallery at the Hospice of Santa Barbara, selling an impressive 16 works for between $250 and $500, even getting offers to pay more for pieces already sold. Hospice director of Stategic Advancement Charles Caldwell; Hospice Planned Giving officer Judy Goodbody; Adan Nader, Jill Nida, board emeritus; and Gary Simpson (photo by Priscilla)
Fans Maria McCall, Brian and Judy Robertson with Beverley’s collage artwork in the background (photo by Priscilla)
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Listening to the music of guitarist Sloan Reali are guests Hiroko Benko and Maria Ross (photo by Priscilla)
“It was really exciting for me to see people really liked my works,” says Beverley. “I think brilliant picture hanger Bob Kolada’s superb job helped to sell them. I was quite overwhelmed and touched.” Her new pastime came about when she was recovering from back surgery and a bad fall five years ago. “I decided I better find new interests as I wouldn’t be running off to China or London constantly. I enrolled in Jill Sattlers’s abstract painting class at City College Adult Education. I also took basket weaving. “I really took to making small pine needle baskets, and Casa Gallery gave
me a show. Then I took collage classes with Tony Askew and Susan Tibbles, and I’d found my passion. “One day, I took an old leather-bound book off the shelf for some reason. No one would have ever read it again, so I took the pages out and used the cover and back as the basis for three-dimensional collages in shadow boxes. Then recently, I let my love of art deco take over in flat collages.” The show was particularly poignant as the late gallery donors Leigh and Mary Block, and Mary Jr., were good friends of Beverley. “I like to think they are pleased I am
• The Voice of the Village •
All in the Family My congratulations to veteran Montecito actor Kirk Douglas, who is about to become a great grandfather at the age of 101. His 38-year-grandson Cameron, son of Oscar winner Michael, 72, is expecting a child with his Brazilian yoga instructor girlfriend, Vivian Thibes, 39. This comes one year after troubled Cameron was released from prison in New York after serving seven years for drug possession. He received a five-year sentence for possession of heroin and selling methamphetamine. The sentence was extended when he admitted to smuggling drugs into prison. Thibes was first seen with Cameron just after he was released from prison in August last year. She hails from Sao Paolo, Brazil, and has a bachelor’s degree in film at Hunter College in Manhattan. She also acted in films such as 2008’s La Rina. After getting out of prison, Cameron told The Huffington Post: “I feel thoroughly blessed. I have a beautiful and loving family who have faithfully supported me every step of the way, believing in me and refusing to give up in the face of one bleak adversity after the next. “I feel in the deepest recesses of my heart that there is a beautiful purpose hidden along this painful journey.” Shaun Shine At the age of 62, former world champion surfer and motivational speaker Shaun Tomson isn’t slowing down. 31 August – 7 September 2017