This year Saint Vincent’s annual Children’s Choice Awards dinner featured a circus theme. Several staff and some of the children put on their best clown makeup and entertained a packed house of supporters and donors. Scott’s Seafood Restaurant at Jack London Square donated the space for the Big Top. The event featured a midway with games, a popcorn machine and a presentation featuring photos of circus acts and vintage circus posters. Special acts included the Ringmaster (Board member, Matt Haley) and fortune teller “Madame Fabula” (aka Board Member Hon. Kim Briggs).
This year’s honorees included Justice Martin J. Jenkins, of the California Court of Appeal; Kathleen Riley, long-term mathematics teacher at Bishop O’Dowd High School; and Day Home Family Services Director Carmen Baires.
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- Welcome to the Big Top!
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- Hoso (left), Angela and Tiffany greet guests to the Big Top
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- Board president Hon. Carol Corrigan and Ringmaster and Board member Matt Haley
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- Ms. Bonita, Ms. Vilma and program manager Jennifer Youngblood clowning around
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- Honoree Justice Jenkins with Administrative Associate Tiffany Washington.
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- Popcorn machine is supervised the Day Home staffers Usha Kumar (right) and Johanna Orellana.
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- Ms. Wilma with Controller Dorothy Ziao, teachers Shaoshun Zhu and Manyu Li
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- Madame Fabula, aka Day Home board member Hon. Kim Briggs, tells fellow board member Wilma Germany’s fortune.
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- Kindergarten teacher Ms. Patrice Clark and our singing students
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- The cutest clowns around!
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- An elegant table set under the Big Top at Scott’s Seafood Restaurant
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- Honoree Kathleen Riley (center in red) and her family and friends
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- Sisters of the Holy Family
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- Honoree Carmen Baires surrounded by her family
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- Donna Clay, board member Vivian O’Neal, Stephen Gerstman and Brenda Davis (left to right)
Many thanks to our sponsor City National Bank, donors and guests, Scott’s, our Events Committee, the Board of Directors, staff and volunteers for all their help and support. As always, it’s because of you that as long as there is a Saint Vincent’s, there will always be a place for a child to call home.