Travel the World at the Volunteer Center's May 10 Recognition Event!

The Volunteer Center of N.E Metro Chicago (VC) is honoring its 2023 Outstanding Volunteers May 10th at its Annual Recognition Event. It promises to be an inspired evening held waterside at the Wilmette Harbor Club from 6-9pm. The event will recognize exceptional volunteers who have stepped up and made impactful differences in our communities.

Prior to the awards program, guests will be treated to a special reception with drinks and an international buffet of ethnic appetizers generously donated by over a dozen fine local North Shore restaurants*

An elite Raffle featuring a week in Tuscany at a 14th century restored villa - Borgo Di Vagli is the Grand Prize. Tickets are $100 each for a chance to win. Only 100 tickets will be sold. Other raffle prizes with lesser ticket prices include a boat cruise on Lake Michigan, special Golf outing, premier seats at next season's Bulls game, exclusive AA seats for four at a June Cubs game that includes access to the private Club 1914, nearly $1,000 in local North Shore restaurant gift cards, entertainment packages and a high-end beauty package valued at over $2,000. Can't attend the event but wish to support the Volunteer Center by purchasing raffle tickets, visit the Volunteer Center website.

Honorees include:
• Fronzie and Mags Roemer, the founders of Paws for Patrick, a nonprofit that honors the memory of their son and brother, Patrick Roemer, who suffered with depression and anxiety and took his life but found comfort in his beloved dog Cici. Paws for Patrick provides that essential support to young people with mental illness through the use of emotional support animals (ESAs) and therapy animals.

• Leslie Farmer and her husband Jim (posthumously), are being recognized for a huge body of volunteer work for both that included several dozen nonprofits that spanned decades. Everywhere they volunteered they both took on leadership roles and helped community organizations that needed their support. Orphans of the Storm was a particular focus for Jim and Leslie took over after his unfortunate passing to West Nile Virus.

• Susan Trieschmann, Founder of Curt's Cafe. Susan created Curt’s Café as a place where youth with challenging backgrounds and experiences could receive training and support in safe spaces like the Cafe where they felt accepted and welcomed. The success of the program is marked by only 4% of their students have been recidivists, and has been credited with "changing lives".

• Rick Rosenfeld, Expansive, Ongoing Refugee support. Rick has engaged multiple people in his effort to provide relief to the large influx of Refugees who have come to the Chicago metro area. Rick and his cohorts have created a "free store" in a local Deerfield parochial school that had closed. This department store of sorts, is filled with donations from the community of furniture and household items where refugees are able to shop free of charge to help them respectfully start their new lives.

Special Thanks to The Warner Institute as the Lead Sponsor of the Event.

*The VC is also grateful to the generous local restaurants for providing culinary delight to the event attendees:
Avli • Brittany's Butters • Curt's Cafe • 5411 Gourmet Empanadas • Good to go Jamaican Cuisine• Grill House • Jimoto • Lawrence Deans • Little Honeycomb • Mino's • Tapas Gitana • Three Tarts • Torino

For more details and reservations, VolunteerCenterHelps.org
Inquiries: Info@volunteercenterhelps.org

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