Literacy Volunteers wine tasting a success

The 4th annual Literacy Volunteers Valley Shore Wine Tasting & Auction held Oct. 2 at the Saybrook Point Pavilion helped raise funds to address the urgent need for reaching out to students in need of improving their English or learning English as a Second Language in the Valley Shore towns and the tutoring program that serves them.

Fundraising events like this one are only successful due to the people and organizations who come together for a worthy cause. Literacy Volunteers is especially fortunate to have had an extraordinary combination of those two elements making this year’s event a rousing success.

Special thanks go to our title sponsors The Clark Group and Bailey, Murphy & Scarano, who always seem to answer our call, and to Sea Side Wine & Spirits, this year’s title sponsor.

We appreciate sponsors AR Mazzotta, Bogaert Construction, Essex Savings Bank, Ivory Wealth Management, Clinton Crossing Premium Outlets and Tower Laboratories for their participation and support.

Special thanks are due to Elizabeth Steffen, Barb Erni, Arcangela Claffey, Paula Chabot, Judy Souza and Paula Ferrara as well as staff members Joanne Argersinger and Donna Whelen, without whom this event would not have been successful.

Finally, thank you to all those who attended and enjoyed the wine, friendly atmosphere and bid on the many donated items to support LVV.S and the cause of literacy. We look forward to seeing you again next year!

— John J. Ferrara, Executive Director, Literacy Volunteers Valley Shore CT, Westbrook