{"id":8384,"date":"2023-05-16T08:00:40","date_gmt":"2023-05-16T13:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/northern-virginia\/?p=8384"},"modified":"2023-05-15T17:09:09","modified_gmt":"2023-05-15T22:09:09","slug":"a-splendid-affair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/northern-virginia\/2023\/05\/16\/a-splendid-affair\/","title":{"rendered":"A Splendid Affair"},"content":{"rendered":"

Our recent Literary Luncheon at the Springfield Golf & Country Club was a FABULOUS success!\u00a0\u00a0While checking in, guests were able to see samples of our major programs and view a short video showcasing our efforts.\u00a0\u00a0After a fine lunch, we presented the Operation School Bell Award to Gabriel Vargas, President of Quadrant, Inc., Reston, for Quadrant\u2019s sustained support of our programs, particularly Weekend Food for Kids.<\/p>\n

Next, our Vice President for Philanthropy provided a touching description of the impact of our programs on the children we serve and noted how important those services are to the students and their families.\u00a0\u00a0Then, Daniel Sanders, President & CEO of Four Sales, Ltd., used his considerable auctioneering skills to ensure that all of our fabulous Live Auction items were sold and to encourage attendees to give generously to support our cause.\u00a0\u00a0We are delighted with his success.<\/p>\n

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The highlight of the luncheon was the presentations by the two featured authors:\u00a0 Judith Pearson, author of\u00a0Wolves at the Door:\u00a0\u00a0The True Story of America\u2019s Greatest Female Spy<\/i>; and Sean McFate, who writes both fiction and nonfiction, his latest book is\u00a0High Treason<\/i>.\u00a0\u00a0The authors each gave short recaps of their books.\u00a0 Then Peggy Fox, Media Relations Manager for Dominion Energy, discussed their books, and asked them questions in a \u2018fireside chat\u2019 setting.\u00a0\u00a0Audience members also asked questions, and had been able to meet the authors, purchase their books and have them signed, before and after the luncheon.<\/p>\n

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We greatly appreciate our sponsors (Dominion Energy and NOVEC), the businesses that provided items for our auction (Lubin Portrait Studios, Midtown Jewelers in Herndon; Moss Building & Design, and Ritz-Carlton-Tysons, Fleming Steak House, and Capital One Theater) and our honorary co-chairs, Peggy Fox and Philip Assante, Membership Sales Manager at Greater Reston Chamber of Commerce.\u00a0\u00a0Their commitment to our chapter helped ensured that this fundraiser was successful.\u00a0\u00a0We are also deeply grateful to our members who worked tirelessly to ensure that every detail of this event was handled professionally and to the members who donated items for our Raffle Baskets.<\/p>\n

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Assistance League is very fortunate to have so many businesses that value and support our efforts, and we are blessed with dedicated, hard-working members.\u00a0 \u00a0Small wonder that the Literary Luncheon was such a splendid affair.<\/p>\n

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Our recent Literary Luncheon at the Springfield Golf & Country Club was a FABULOUS success!\u00a0\u00a0While checking in, guests were able to see samples of our major programs and view a short video showcasing our efforts.\u00a0\u00a0After a fine lunch, we presented the Operation School Bell Award to Gabriel Vargas, President of Quadrant, Inc., Reston, for Quadrant\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":65463,"featured_media":8387,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/northern-virginia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/northern-virginia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/northern-virginia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/northern-virginia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/65463"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/northern-virginia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8384"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/northern-virginia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8384\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8392,"href":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/northern-virginia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8384\/revisions\/8392"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/northern-virginia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/northern-virginia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/northern-virginia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/northern-virginia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}