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Unlikely pairings can sometimes yield surprising results.
Take the Christie Lake Kids’ signature gala, for example. Its name sounds like a novel: An Unlikely Pairing: Adventures in Food Trucks & Fine Wines.
Yet, the annual event drew another sold-out crowd and broke a new record, raising $101,000 for the local non-profit organization that changes lives by providing free recreational and skill-building programs to economically disadvantaged children and youth.
The successful concept is based on the coupling of wine with street food. It’s not ordinary street food but, rather, gourmet dishes from some of the best food trucks in town.
On Thursday, the chefs prepared fancy Vietnamese spring rolls, snow crab claws, Creole-blackened chicken tacos, bacon-braised beef brisket and ginger pear cream pops for 325 attendees of the dinner held at Ashbury College in Rockcliffe Park. The private school once again offered up the free venue space.
The participating mobile restaurants were: Angry Dragonz, Ad Mare, Urban Cowboy, Ottawa Street Gourmet and Merry Dairy.
“They do a great job,” said event chair Scott Parkes, vice president with Tamarack Developments and a member of Ottawa’s prominent Taggart and Parkes clan (their family foundation is title sponsor). “They’re used to dealing with a lunch crowd where hundreds of people show up on the sidewalk and want to eat. So, they’re perfect for an event like this where you need 300 meals in a short period of time.”
From left, Tracy Raitt-Parkes and her husband, event chair Scott Parkes, from title sponsor, the Taggart Parkes Foundation, with Suzanne Farhat and Paul McCarney, with the McCarney Family Foundation, at An Unlikely Pairing: Adventures in Food Trucks and Fine Wines, held in support of Christie Lake Kids on Thursday, November 12, 2015, at Ashbury College in Rockcliffe Park.
Now into its fourth year, the $200-a-ticket gala keeps growing, both with sponsorship and with donated auction items, added Parkes, who also sits on the board with Christie Lake Kids.
Faces in the crowd included Paul McCarney, past chair of the Ottawa Construction Association, Christie Lake Kids board president Chris Hughes, and popular building supplier Robert Merkley. He, coincidentally, was seen with insurance broker Brian Scott, who’s receiving Thursday at an Association of Fundraising Professionals dinner the Outstanding Volunteer Fundraiser Award won by Merkley last year.
From left, Brian Scott, president of Smith Petrie Carr & Scott, with Cheryl Casey, Katie Scott (visiting from Mount Allison University), Doug Casey and Robert Merkley, president of Merkley Supply, at An Unlikely Pairing: Adventures in Food Trucks and Fine Wines, held in support of Christie Lake Kids on Thursday, November 12, 2015, at Ashbury College in Rockcliffe Park.
Guests had a chance to win a pair of Air Canada tickets while live auction items included generous golf packages, a $10,000 gift card to Muskoka custom kitchen cabinetry, a 100-level suite to a Senators game, a ride in a World War Two fighter jet from Vintage Wings and a painting by artist Katherine Jeans.
Also sold off: a priceless work of art created by children from Christie Lake Kids’ junior art program in the Caldwell community and a dinner for 10 cooked and served by youth from the organization’s senior cooking program at the Dempsey Community Centre.
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Take the Christie Lake Kids’ signature gala, for example. Its name sounds like a novel: An Unlikely Pairing: Adventures in Food Trucks & Fine Wines.
Yet, the annual event drew another sold-out crowd and broke a new record, raising $101,000 for the local non-profit organization that changes lives by providing free recreational and skill-building programs to economically disadvantaged children and youth.
The successful concept is based on the coupling of wine with street food. It’s not ordinary street food but, rather, gourmet dishes from some of the best food trucks in town.
On Thursday, the chefs prepared fancy Vietnamese spring rolls, snow crab claws, Creole-blackened chicken tacos, bacon-braised beef brisket and ginger pear cream pops for 325 attendees of the dinner held at Ashbury College in Rockcliffe Park. The private school once again offered up the free venue space.
The participating mobile restaurants were: Angry Dragonz, Ad Mare, Urban Cowboy, Ottawa Street Gourmet and Merry Dairy.
“They do a great job,” said event chair Scott Parkes, vice president with Tamarack Developments and a member of Ottawa’s prominent Taggart and Parkes clan (their family foundation is title sponsor). “They’re used to dealing with a lunch crowd where hundreds of people show up on the sidewalk and want to eat. So, they’re perfect for an event like this where you need 300 meals in a short period of time.”
From left, Tracy Raitt-Parkes and her husband, event chair Scott Parkes, from title sponsor, the Taggart Parkes Foundation, with Suzanne Farhat and Paul McCarney, with the McCarney Family Foundation, at An Unlikely Pairing: Adventures in Food Trucks and Fine Wines, held in support of Christie Lake Kids on Thursday, November 12, 2015, at Ashbury College in Rockcliffe Park.
Now into its fourth year, the $200-a-ticket gala keeps growing, both with sponsorship and with donated auction items, added Parkes, who also sits on the board with Christie Lake Kids.
Faces in the crowd included Paul McCarney, past chair of the Ottawa Construction Association, Christie Lake Kids board president Chris Hughes, and popular building supplier Robert Merkley. He, coincidentally, was seen with insurance broker Brian Scott, who’s receiving Thursday at an Association of Fundraising Professionals dinner the Outstanding Volunteer Fundraiser Award won by Merkley last year.
From left, Brian Scott, president of Smith Petrie Carr & Scott, with Cheryl Casey, Katie Scott (visiting from Mount Allison University), Doug Casey and Robert Merkley, president of Merkley Supply, at An Unlikely Pairing: Adventures in Food Trucks and Fine Wines, held in support of Christie Lake Kids on Thursday, November 12, 2015, at Ashbury College in Rockcliffe Park.
Guests had a chance to win a pair of Air Canada tickets while live auction items included generous golf packages, a $10,000 gift card to Muskoka custom kitchen cabinetry, a 100-level suite to a Senators game, a ride in a World War Two fighter jet from Vintage Wings and a painting by artist Katherine Jeans.
Also sold off: a priceless work of art created by children from Christie Lake Kids’ junior art program in the Caldwell community and a dinner for 10 cooked and served by youth from the organization’s senior cooking program at the Dempsey Community Centre.
From left, Tracy Raitt-Parkes and her husband, event chair Scott Parkes, from title sponsor, the Taggart Parkes Foundation, with Suzanne Farhat and Paul McCarney, with the McCarney Family Foundation, at An Unlikely Pairing: Adventures in Food Trucks and Fine Wines, held in support of Christie Lake Kids on Thursday, November 12, 2015, at Ashbury College in Rockcliffe Park. (Caroline Phillips / Ottawa Citizen)
From left, Dave Renfrew with Rebecca Brown and Kyle Brown, and Christie Lake Kids board member Trevor Doyle, owner of Doyle Homes, at An Unlikely Pairing: Adventures in Food Trucks and Fine Wines, held in support of Christie Lake Kids on Thursday, November 12, 2015, at Ashbury College in Rockcliffe Park. (Caroline Phillips / Ottawa Citizen)
From left, Brian Scott, president of Smith Petrie Carr & Scott, with Cheryl Casey, Katie Scott (visiting from Mount Allison University), Doug Casey and Robert Merkley, president of Merkley Supply, at An Unlikely Pairing: Adventures in Food Trucks and Fine Wines, held in support of Christie Lake Kids on Thursday, November 12, 2015, at Ashbury College in Rockcliffe Park.
Jeff Smith, owner of Smith & Bradley's Insurance, with his wife Angela Singhal at An Unlikely Pairing: Adventures in Food Trucks and Fine Wines, held in support of Christie Lake Kids on Thursday, November 12, 2015, at Ashbury College in Rockcliffe Park. (Caroline Phillips / Ottawa Citizen)
From left, Kellie Major, Jane Spiteri, Kathy Unsworth and Vanessa von Finckenstein attend An Unlikely Pairing: Adventures in Food Trucks and Fine Wines, held in support of Christie Lake Kids on Thursday, November 12, 2015, at Ashbury College in Rockcliffe Park. (Caroline Phillips / Ottawa Citizen)
From left, Heather Strachan and her husband, Brent Strachan, senior vice president, Minto Communities, with his colleague, Susan Murphy, vice president of development with Minto Communities, and her husband, Noel Murphy, at An Unlikely Pairing: Adventures in Food Trucks and Fine Wines, held in support of Christie Lake Kids on Thursday, November 12, 2015, at Ashbury College in Rockcliffe Park. (Caroline Phillips / Ottawa Citizen)
From left, Christine Steenbakkers and John Steenbakkers with Jodi Downs and Andy Downs, guests of Kott Lumber, at An Unlikely Pairing: Adventures in Food Trucks and Fine Wines, held in support of Christie Lake Kids on Thursday, November 12, 2015, at Ashbury College in Rockcliffe Park. (Caroline Phillips / Ottawa Citizen)
From left, public affairs expert Phil von Finckenstein with CTV Power Play host Don Martin and Garry Keller, one-time chief of staff to former foreign affairs minister John Baird, at a gala dinner held in support of Christie Lake Kids on Thursday, November 12, 2015, at Ashbury College in Rockcliffe Park. (Caroline Phillips / Ottawa Citizen)
Patrick Dion, vice chair of the Mental Health Commission of Canada, with Jane Fjeld, associate executive director of the Youth Services Bureau of Ottawa, at An Unlikely Pairing: Adventures in Food Trucks and Fine Wines, held in support of Christie Lake Kids on Thursday, November 12, 2015, at Ashbury College in Rockcliffe Park. (Caroline Phillips / Ottawa Citizen)
From left, Maria Bassi with Laila Saikaley and her husband, Eli Saikaley, co-owner of Silver Scissors hair salon in the Glebe, at An Unlikely Pairing: Adventures in Food Trucks and Fine Wines, held in support of Christie Lake Kids on Thursday, November 12, 2015, at Ashbury College in Rockcliffe Park. (Caroline Phillips / Ottawa Citizen)
From left, Irfan Ahmed, Zane Dickie, Ameera Girgis and Jezsica Sim, all with Excel HR staffing firm, at An Unlikely Pairing: Adventures in Food Trucks and Fine Wines, held in support of Christie Lake Kids on Thursday, November 12, 2015, at Ashbury College in Rockcliffe Park. (Caroline Phillips / Ottawa Citizen)
From left, Peter Murphy, Sarah Turnbull, Inflector Environmental Services president Jeffrey W. Clarke and Jessica Higgs at An Unlikely Pairing: Adventures in Food Trucks and Fine Wines, held in support of Christie Lake Kids on Thursday, November 12, 2015, at Ashbury College in Rockcliffe Park. (Caroline Phillips / Ottawa Citizen)
From left, Joey Theberge and Jenn Theberge with Mike Lalande, president of Lalande Insurance, and Brooke Ritchie at An Unlikely Pairing: Adventures in Food Trucks and Fine Wines, held in support of Christie Lake Kids on Thursday, November 12, 2015, at Ashbury College in Rockcliffe Park. (Caroline Phillips / Ottawa Citizen)
From left, Christie Lake Kids executive director Jeff Burry with the non-profit organization's board chair, Chris Hughes, at An Unlikely Pairing: Adventures in Food Trucks and Fine Wines, held in support of Christie Lake Kids on Thursday, November 12, 2015, at Ashbury College in Rockcliffe Park. (Caroline Phillips / Ottawa Citizen)
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