One of the city's biggest annual fundraisers is coming up this month: the Rotary Club of Burnaby Metrotown is hosting the annual Wine, Food and Music Festival on Saturday, April 20, and local residents are encouraged to eat, drink and be merry - all for a good cause.
"This year, we are so excited," said Gloria Tom Wing Staudt, a longtime Rotarian with the Metrotown club. "We have the most in wine sponsors than we've had in the past two years."
This year, there will be 20 wine sponsors, and each one will bring a minimum of three types of wine.
"We are talking more than 60 or 70 types of wine, and it's a whole mixture of local wineries, as well as merchants bringing in wine from New Zealand, France, Italy," Tom Wing Staudt said.
The Simon Fraser University Chamber Orchestra will be playing, while patrons sip wine and nibble culinary treats. The food samples are from Earls, Sammy J's Grill and Bar, Burnaby Palace, Wings Tap and Grill, the Burnaby Firefighters' Club, Cobs Bread, Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory and Purdy's Chocolates. According to Tom Wing Staudt, an estimated 600 people usully show up for the festival.
The event runs Saturday, April 20, from 7: 30 to 9: 30 p.m., at Lougheed Town Centre in the atrium in front of the Bay. There will also be a silent auction and door prizes.
Tickets are $40, available by calling Lougheed Town Centre at 604-4212882 or Investors Group at 604-4310117. Proceeds go to the Rotary's literacy programs and efforts to eradicate polio, and the Burnaby-based Down Syndrome Research Foundation.
