MEN WHO COOK SPONSORS - 2010 Men Who Cook Flyer

Recipes are being tried out. Dresses are being tried on. Now you must decide what auction item to try for.

The planning committee for Men Who Cook 2010 is finalizing the details for this year’s event, to be held February 20, at Safari Texas in Richmond. The festivities begin at 6:30 p.m., with the Billie Ledbetter Orchestra providing the evening’s musical entertainment. 

While the tasty temptations of more than 70 celebrity chefs is reason enough to attend,  auctioneer-extraordinaire Jeff Council will be on hand to dispense with seven exciting items in the live auction.

If you like to travel, spending 4 days 3 nights on South Padre Island in Bob and Marcia Vogelsang’s beachside condo might be the package for you. 

A weekend trip to the Host Reserve in Leakey is also up for bid. You and five friends will spend the weekend in blissful peace, rocking away on the front porch of their log cabin. 

Then again, if sailing floats your boat, you might enjoy 3 days and 2 nights on Beverly Banfield’s 50-foot houseboat, cruising around Lake Travis, near Austin.

 If shopping till you drop is your interest, six lucky shoppers will be whisked away to enjoy a guided trip to the Original Round Top Antique Fair in March. 

If you like to entertain, invite 11 of your friends to enjoy a meal prepared by Chef Rey in the Old Potting Shed at Union Chappell Farms in Fulshear. 

If you have a bigger group to entertain, Jimmy Cantu of Pier 36 will host an evening of appetizers and drinks at Old South Plantation. 

And what would an auction be at this time without tickets to the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo. You can be “the best Mom/Dad EVER!”  when you bring home four tickets to the Jonas Brothers!

Proceeds from the evening are used to support the creative ideas and classroom projects by Lamar CISD teachers that would otherwise go unfunded. L.E.A.F. also offers scholarship to graduating Lamar CISD students and to paraprofessionals working on their teaching certificates.

In nine years of existence, LE.A.F. has invested more than $1 million into LCISD schools.

Underwriters at the Silver L.E.A.F. level for the event include Aetna, Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Carolyn and Neil Banfield, Consolidated Home Health, Consolidated Property Advisors, Fluor, Gurecky Manufacturing, Jackie Leaman, Jan and Lee Leaman, Linebarger Goggan Blair and Sampson LLP, Memorial Hermann – Sugar Land, Nalco Company, Sandra and Bill Billingsley, Trina and Andy Sanford, United Environmental Services, Universal Corrosion Specialists and United Healthcare.

Thirty individuals and business will serve as Bronze L.E.A.F. sponsors. That list includes include Amegy Bank, Bass Construction, Bonbrook Plantation, Coastal Butane, DBR Engineering Consultants, DHK Development, Drymalla Construction, Firethorne, First Southwest Company and Gilbane. Also, IDC Inc., Imperial Sugar Company, Kathy and Lonnie Meadows/NewFirst Insurers, Lakemont/Walnut Creek, Lee Mahlmann, DDS, McGriff Seibels & Williams and NewFirst National Bank.

Bronze sponsors also include Null Lairson, OakBend Medical Center, PBK Architects, Paul and Janice Knight, Perdue, Brandon, Fielder, Collins & Mott LLP, RiverPark West, The Hunton Group, Southwest Water Company, Thompson & Horton LLP, Trendmaker, VLK Architects, Vinson & Elkins and Williams Development & Construction Inc.

Tickets for the gala are $50. For more information regarding L.E.A.F. or to purchase tickets, contact Janice Knight at 832.223.0334.

Committee members include (L- R) Tim Kaminski, Jan Russell, Kenny Kucherka, Lonnie Meadows, Cindy Sutton and Alicia Casias. Not present for the picture were Bobbi Treacy, Judi Vernon, Marcia Holmes, Teresa Gibson, Margie Pollard, Barbara Minton, Dee Koch and Vincent Morales.