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Point West Rotary Celebrates 10 Years of Festa di Vino – A Celebration of Food & Wine – Benefiting Sierra Forever Families and Local Children’s Charities.

Sacramento, California – March 15, 2012 – Point West Rotary, one of the largest Rotary clubs in Sacramento, will host its 10th Festa di Vino – A Celebration of Food and Wine – on March 31 at the Scottish Rite Masonic Center in Sacramento. When does the opportunity arrive to allow you to dine at 20 restaurants in one night or go on a wine-tasting tour to visit more than 25 of the top local wineries in one day? “Never,” you say. “That’s just not possible.” Well, the time is now. Point West Rotary of Sacramento is providing a special opportunity for you to do just that. On Saturday, March 31 at the Scottish Rite Masonic Center, you can enjoy great food and wine at this 10th Annual Festa di V

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3,400 local children and youth are growing up in foster care. Over 1,000 need a permanent home today.

November is National Adoption Month.  As the nation recognizes this important social issue, counties and communities across California will promote adoption and permanency awareness through activities and events that bring attention to the needs of the over 25,000 children and youth living in foster care throughout the state waiting for families to love and adopt them. November 3, 2011 is National Adoption Awareness Day.  On November 3, 2011, the month-long effort will kick off, raising awareness about the thousands of children in California waiting for families, celebrating those special people who have provided a loving home to children in foster care, and inspiring others to come forw

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Waste Connections, Inc. supports charitable golf tournament with proceeds to help children in foster care.

Waste Connections, Inc. sponsored and helped fundraise $145,000 during Sierra Forever Families’ seventh annual Golf Classic for Kids tournament at Serrano Country Club on Sept. 12. The funds raised during this year’s tournament will help more than 20 children living in foster care find permanent placements with loving families. This tremendous success of the 2011 tournament would not be as significant without the gracious support of Ron Mittelstaedt, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, along with Jerri Hunt, Vice President of Employee Relations, of Waste Connection, Inc. Hunt, who retired from the Board of Directors of Sierra Forever Families in July, served as the four-time Chair of t

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Sierra Adoption Services becomes Sierra Forever Families on July 1.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Sara Hanson Public Relations Specialist shanson@sierraadoption.org 916.368.5114 ext. 237 fax: 916.368.5157 Nonprofit Known for Transforming the Lives of Children in Foster Care, Makes a Transformation of Its Own June 18, 2009 – Sacramento, CA - For 25 years, Sierra Adoption Services has transformed the lives of children in foster care by building and nurturing permanent families. During that time, over 2,000 children and youth have found the love, acceptance and security of a permanent home – a forever family. As of July 1, 2009, the agency’s name will change to Sierra Forever Families. The new name represents the culmination of many years of hard work b

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