CDS Foundation Presents Local Charities$20,000.00 From the 2009 " Wild Game Dinner "
                                                                        

Committee members from the CDS Foundation presented funds to local health care centers at a luncheon following the recent Wild Game Dinner hosted at Laurel Manor on January 23, 2009

Angela Hospice Home Care ·   Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute ·  St. Mary’s Mercy Hospital’s Our Lady of Hope Cancer Center ·  Bostford Hospital Foundation 
These organizations shared $20,000.00 proceeds from the CDS Foundation 16TH Annual Wild Game Dinner Auction.

We are all grateful for all the volunteers and sponsors. And a special thank you to all that attended the Michigans premier Wild Game Dinner. The Wild Game Dinner was a bounty of superb wild game delicacies. Wild Boar Ribs, Elk Sausage, Smoked Venison Ravioli's, Alligator and more. Raffle prizes, Texas Hold-Em and Casino Games that contributed the fund raising during the evening.

Credit cards accepted - ATM Machine on premises

Laurel Manor Banquet & Conference Center 39000 Schoolcraft Rd. Livonia, MI 48150    (734-462-0770)         www.laurelmanor.com

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             WILD GAME DINNER 2009
                                                                                                    

    
       


Checks were distributed at a luncheon to all of the organizations that CDS supports after the 15 TH Annual Wild Game Dinner. It was the best Wild Game Dinner ever and your support was appreciated. We want to give a special thank you to those volunteers from each organization that helped to make this event a success. We look forward to seeing you and tell your friends to join us for this stag event.

Organizations that CDS Foundation has helped for the past 16 years with the WILD GAME DINNER

      Currently the Wild Game Dinner donates to (below
                                                                                                                                                                               CDS also helped these organizations                                                                       

    ·         Angela Hospice Home Care                                                                                                                                McCarty Foundation
    ·         Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute                                                                                                          Madonna University
    ·         St. Mary’s Mercy Hospital’s Our Lady of Hope Cancer Center                                                                        Hunters Feeding the Homeless 
    ·         Bostford Hospital Foundation                                                                                                                            Livonia Italian American Club

                                                                                                                                                                                                Fallen and Wounded Soldiers Fund

Dear Fellow CDS Foundation Supporter:

Over the years you've supported CDS Foundation with your voice, your energy and your dollars. Now, we're proud to say, it's time to give you something back!       
CDS Foundation has a new membership service that actually puts the "fun" in fundraising...and it won't cost you a penny. I know you've heard that one before, this time it's true!

CDS Foundation now has its own travel website at www.cdsfoundationtravel.com

This new service is like having our own Expedia® just for CDS Foundation supporters and friends! Everything you need is right here. You get access to the same airlines, hotels and rental car companies, cruises and vacation packages you find on all the other major travel websites, and, best of all ... you get some of the lowest
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One thing you can say about Tino Del Signore: He’s got game. So who better to whip up the CDS Foundation’s 14th Annual Wild Game Dinner than Tino? The event took place January 26, 2007 at Livonia’s Laurel Manor, which Tino and his sister Nanci run for our indomitable Italian paisano, John Del Signore.  Having traveled to Del Signore’s hometown of Forte d’Amore in September to film Lina and him for ‘Our Italian Story’, we were able to reminisce with the best of the older Italians, who gathered around John like moths to a flame. Tino held court throughout the event, passing orders via cell phone to make sure everything ran smoothly, which it did.  The spread of self-serve appetizers sustained growing crowds (upwards of 600) as did the able bartenders; chafing dishes brimming with deep fried alligator, grilled venison sausage and buffalo meatballs set the tone for a carb-challenged, high-protein blow-out.  Meanwhile, the gang, many of whom had attended all fourteen of the annual dinners, milled around the auction tables, appraising the wrench sets, power saws, automotive gee-gaws, rifles and camping must-haves, mimicking Tim ‘Tool Time’ Allen’s boar grunt of testosterone appreciation.  Raffle tickets, available in $60 and $100 booklets, were deposited in boxes adjacent to each. As the beautifully-appointed Laurel Manor banquet room filled with burly, blustering, cigar-chomping hombres, many of them in khakis and OSHA orange, wearing trucker caps and even akubras, partaking liberally open bars, one twelve-year-old in the crowd asked in amazement, “No women are allowed at this thing?”  Given the affirmative, he replied, “…Cool!” The much anticipated dinner from the able kitchen at Laurel Manor, served by a predictably hot wait staff, began with a Hunter’s salad, then a pasta dish of ground pheasant in ravioli (always the Italian touch).  Main course was sensational, consisting of a trio of braised Michigan rabbit, spicy roasted quail (a favorite at our table) and Canadian duck breast with orange sage sauce.  Everything was washed down with the rich red valpolicella from John Del Signore’s vineyard in Abruzzi, adding the personal touch to meals for which the family (Tino’s brother Luciano is chef/owner of Bacco in Southfield) is so justifiably proud. The crowd was macho and pumped, but that’s not to say that they were in any way uncouth.  On the contrary, countless fascinating outdoor…and indoor types along with numerous culinary experts were there, including the wonderful wine writer Ray Heald and hairdresser/sailboat captain Richard Asztalos (owner of Charisma Salon and Day Spa) and of course, big bro Luciano, who tucked into a huge plate of food with obvious approval. The auctions, both silent and live, drew interest from all concerned, though the highlight may have been a pair of hunting dogs, one a 5 yr. old German Shorthair finished gun dog and a six-month-old Shorthair/English Setter mix, both of which brought top dollar and promise to be somebody’s close birding buddy.  MC’d by the suave and polished Dr. Don Atkins (massive portions of meat are clearly on this Atkins Diet), the entire evening went to benefit many charitable organizations including St. Mary Mercy Hospital Cancer Center, Angela Hospice, Botsford Hospital and St. Pietro Celestino Church.  The final tally isn’t in yet on this year’s event, but in years passed, the Wild Game Dinner has raised over a quarter million dollars for such worthy institutions. Bird excrement would be an odd highlight for any banquet, but in fact, Tino’s now-legendary ‘Crap Shoot’ was the much anticipated culmination of feast and festivities.  The game consists of a five-foot patchwork of purchasable squares, more than a hundred totals, which vary in price from five to twenty dollars each.  Once all the squares are bought and signed, a free-range denizen from Tino’s coop is let loose on top, and the first square that the wretched rooster graces with, well, you know, that proud square owner wins a 9 mm. pistol. By Keith Famie Adventure Chef/Film Producer Visionalist Entertainment Production  248-624-9636

Photo Credit (Keith Famie)

Getting great travel prices for you is fantastic, right? But, how is this going to help raise funds for CDS Foundation?

Here's How it Works - if you don't know, every time you use a travel website like Expedia®, the travel companies pay BIG commissions for your reservation.

Well, now when you book travel on our website, CDS Foundation will get a whopping 60% of those commissions!

Any way you look at it, this is a win-win situation. You get great travel rates and you help funnel dollars from the travel companies into CDS Foundation to advance our cause. With your help and other CDS Foundation supporters like you... we can raise THOUSANDS of dollars for CDS Foundation to help support our cause! 

I know you might have a slight case of “cabin fever,” as a result, you are in the middle of planning a winter vacation or maybe looking ahead to plan travel for the Spring. Why not take the travel website for a "test drive" right now? I'm sure you'll like what you find and it would be a great way for us to kick off this new service.

            Thanks for your commitment to CDS Foundation and take a look at our travel service www.cdsfoundationtravel.com