MISCELLANY (Continued from page 19)
Celebrating birthday years of Beverley’s is Bertrand de Gabriac. Guy and Patricia de Gramont, Jean Claude and Susie Benarrosh, Jill Sattler and Maria McCall (photo by Priscilla)
The artistic works of Kym Cochran, Dirk Brandts, filmmaker; Beverley Jackson, Paul Schurch, Jonathan Smithe, in the redecorated room with them on the featured 18th-century Chinese wedding bed (photo by Priscilla)
(Front row) SBRM Kitchen manager Wesley Jones and some kitchen staff (not in order) Daniel Polido, George Machado, Kyle Newton, Seth Garber, Ernesto Fernandez, Matt Nanvarro, Bronson Thomas, Ricoo Santino, Dustin Badasci, and Clint Seigal who cooked and dished the Thanksgiving feast (photo by Priscilla)
Rolf Geyling, executive director SBRM; greeting the Sears family of volunteers on Thanksgiving are Woody, Brooke, (mother and grandmother) June Jackson, children Eli, Jackson, and Makayla (photo by Priscilla)
Mellen, Jamie and Marcia Constance, Joan Rutkowski, Gil Rosas, Nancy Gifford, Clarissa Ru, Adam and Penny Bianchi, and Ron and Andra Macleod, with their children, Hudson and Grayson. Keeping up with Jones For Wesley Jones, the new head of the kitchen at the Rescue Mission, the annual Thanksgiving Feast, was quite a nerve wracking event.
With more than 300 guests, including the cooking of 72 turkeys, the mashing of more than 100 pounds of potatoes, and the preparation of 150 pounds of carrots, it was his biggest operation yet. But Wesley, who replaced longtime kitchen supremo, Daniel Osti, needn’t have worried, as the diners scoffed down the food gratefully. “It is a heaping help of love that transforms hearts and lives this
Henry Miranda, Ronnie Mellen, Veronica Mishou, Aidan Naber, Beverley Jackson, Grayson and Hudson McLeod beside the roomful of gifts brought by friends celebrating Beverley’s 88th birthday for the “Toys for Tots” by the Montecito Fire Department team (photo by Priscilla)
Beverley with guests Richard and Annette Caleel
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that could be given to the Montecito firefighters Christmas collection for underprivileged children. Such was the volume of toys that a room has to be set aside with the space looking like a display window from F.A.O. Schwartz. Among those helping celebrate Beverley’s birthday beano were Robert and Gretchen Lieff, Richard and Annette Caleel, Gerald Incandela, Charlie and Sally Fairbanks, Glynne and Gillan Couvillion, Adnan Naber, Paul Schurch, Larry Gosselin, Guy and Patty de Gramont, Ronnie
Volunteers serving the pumpkin pie with whipped cream are Dale and Rebecca Weber, Marguerite and daughter Michelle Berti, Debbie Saucedo, Erica Bender with Brody and mom Terry Green (photo by Priscilla)
• The Voice of the Village •
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