Wine, Women and Song! And Men too! Event held on 7/8/23 Downtown Anaheim Community Center
What a wonderful event we had on Saturday night! We filled the community center with wonderful music, wine, food and fun! We had over 150 attendees and raised almost $30,000 for women cancer survivors! We are so grateful to our musician, graduate and the brains behind...
Total Wine and More. Wine Tasting 04/22/23
At one of our prior events, Rosalie Porter won a wine tasting for 20 people in our basket raffle. We felt very lucky to be invited and gladly joined in the fun. It was held at the Total Wine and More store in Temecula on 4/22/23. They have a tasting room at this...
Riviera Club Fashion Show 4/12/23
As you may recall in my last article, Healing Odyssey was the guest speaker at last months Riviera Women's Club luncheon. This club raised over $1,100 for Healing Odyssey. It was an honor to be the recipient of their charitable donations. Their fashion show was the...
Women’s Club Luncheon
Riviera Club Luncheon - 3/8/23 Donna Farris and I were invited to speak at a luncheon on 3/8/23 at the Hills Hotel hosted by the Riviera Club. They are a non-profit women's group located in South Orange County. Their president Kathy Moon, is an excellent, motivated...
Healing Odyssey Holiday Party 12/10/22
We held our annual Holiday party for 2022 at Debbie Belsher’s house this year. It had been raining on and off prior to our event and we were prepared to bring the festivities indoors should it rain. However, we were very blessed and the weather was perfect! We had...
HO 55 Retreat Update
We held our first in-person retreat in two years in September, 2021 at beautiful Pali Retreat Center in Running Springs, CA. Because of Covid, we had been doing Zoom retreats to stay in touch with our grads and future participants. Zoom is a great interim tool to...
Southwest Airlines
Southwest Airlines reached its one-millionth Act of Kindness in September. To continue its quest for kindness, Southwest Airlines announced a one million dollars of thanks contest. The contest offered 501(c)(3) organizations an opportunity to enter a contest*...
President’s Letter: Reflecting Back and Moving Forward
A lot has happened since I wrote my last letter. As I reflect back, I realize my last letter was posted justas we entered 2020. We were full of hope, with many events and programs planned. Then came March,2020 and the shutdown. We had to reluctantly cancel all our...
UCI Student Project
For the last 3 years we have been invited by the instructors at the UCI Informatics department to submit a project to its students. We were grateful to be selected by a team again this year and we were ready with a project. Over the years we have heard your comments...