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Petaluma Chapter of Realtors has stepped up to the plate this week with a $5,000 check to provide partial funding of the continuation of Petaluma Educational Foundation’s first Major Impact Grant Program: The Petaluma Wetlands Association Third Grade Science Program.
“We are so grateful that the real estate community in Petaluma has chosen to support our program in the schools,” says Coordinator of the PWA 3rd Grade Science Program in the Schools, Helen Heal. “Our school program helps all third graders in Petaluma and in the Petaluma River watershed learn of the importance and wonder of local wetlands. Every year our volunteer docents bring almost 1,000 children and hundreds of parents and teachers into the wetlands for science education, and it is wonderful to have such community support to do this.”Learn more about the PWA 3rd Grade Science Program by viewing the following video clip shot at Shollenberger Park this Spring:
Over $53,000 will have been donated to a variety of community programs and causes by the Petaluma Chapter of Realtors this year alone. Monies are raised at an annual golf tournament and seasonal fundraisers and weekly brokers' tours in which agents from brokerages throughout the city actively participate.
Additional recipients include: Boys and Girls Club, Building Homes, Building Hope, Carousel Fund
HCSQ-Challenge
Day, Mentor Me, Human Race, City of Petaluma, Newspapers in
Education,Petaluma Ecumenical Properties,Petaluma Health Center,
Petaluma Hospice, Petaluma Kitchen, Petaluma People Services, Project
Graduation, Rebuilding Together,Petaluma Rotary-Holiday Party for
Children, Scholarships for five Petaluma Graduating Seniors, PEF Invest in Education Grants, Week of the young child.
Petaluma Chapter Members pictured here with Janet Ramatici, Executive Director of Petaluma Educational Foundation and Helen Heal of Petaluma Wetlands Alliance
Petaluma's soon to be carefully restored Sunset Line and Twine Building will undoubtedly make a graceful transition from the only silk mill west of the Mississippi into multiple luxury live/work condominiums.
If Saturday night's Petaluma Educational Foundation Silver Anniversary Fundraiser, dramatically staged in the empty shell of this registered historical building was anything to go by, the rebirth of a national and local treasure should be quite a considerable buzz in this city's real estate community.
Petaluma Preservation Group has big plans afoot to create the luxury dwellings and some 700 of the city's leading business, civic and social movers and shakers had a first-hand taste of this landmark interior at Saturday's pre-renovation educational extravaganza.
Doubling fundraising revenue from last year's event held down the road at the equally historic Petaluma Railroad Freight Building, Petaluma Educational Foundation raised a staggering $350, 000 gross in this 2007 glitzy, red-tie event.
Long broken windows were artfully draped with red velvet swags, time-worn wooden floorboards were swept and scrubbed. Vintage restrooms, repainted and dressed up with a glamorous 1920s style toiletry station, decorators transformed the upper floor entirely with table seating for 700. Stunning in black and white, with elegant tabletop crystal chandeliers, white floral arrangements and clever placement of some of the most historic and striking large items of original silk manufacturing machinery.
Talk about staging. It was a win-win for all in attendance and will stand as a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to have wined and dined with a who's who of Petaluma, under the roof of one of the best known buildings in the city!
Petaluma Educational Foundation celebrates 25 years of funding programs and scholarships for all city students of local public, charter and not for profit private schools.
Our resident realtor, Timo was thrilled to have helped boost the Live Auction portion of the PEF event by donating a case of hand-selected Petaluma Gap Grape and Wine Alliance vintages. Each of the 12 bottles was produced from grapes grown entirely in the cool-climate local of the famous Petaluma Gap fog tunnel. This case raised $1,100 alone!
Timo's limited edition, handcrafted 2005 Cool Climate Que Syra Syrah was amongst the case of local wines.
