Madeline Zuckerman | Special to The Desert Sun
Close to 100 elegantly attired women and a fistful of handsome gents gathered Nov. 17 astatine The Springs Woman's invited backmost luncheon, celebrating the ninth play of the fundraising and societal nine founded by members of The Springs Country Club successful Rancho Mirage.
Kicking disconnected the archetypal of six luncheons, this soiree featured 2 speakers, Dennis Mori, communications manager of The Springs Country Club, and Rosa Lucas, founding committee subordinate and board-certified household caregiver practitioner of Coachella Valley Volunteers successful Medicine (CVVIM).
Mori presented an informative chronological past of however The Springs Country Club has evolved implicit the past 47 years — from erstwhile Edwin Johnson, a palmy onshore developer, purchased the 385 acres with conscionable a handshake to however the City of Rancho Mirage was formed connected the nonstop aforesaid time The Springs submitted its plans for improvement connected July 11, 1973.
Mori shared nostalgic photos of celebrated celebrities and VIPs who frequented and/or owned residences astatine The Springs, successful summation to photos of immoderate of the amusive and elegant events the nine has hosted implicit the years.
Following lunch, Lucas provided a glimpse into CVVIM’s stateless aesculapian outreach program, often referred to arsenic the Street Medicine Program, which provides aesculapian attraction to the stateless and underserved who person nary wellness insurance.
With six palmy years nether its belt, the Street Medicine Program happens Tuesday evenings, encompassing teams of volunteers, including a doc oregon caregiver practitioner, a aesculapian resident, a psychologist, societal workers arsenic good arsenic different volunteers who scope retired to the stateless successful our godforsaken to supply no-cost wellness care. The programme handles superior prevention, diagnosis and attraction and has adjacent performed immoderate insignificant surgeries retired successful the desert.
“We are delighted that truthful galore of our Springs Woman members joined america for this season’s opening luncheon,” said Mary Hockin, the organization's president. “And we are precise arrogant of the information that since its inception, The Springs Woman has been the azygous largest extracurricular fundraising radical for Coachella Valley Volunteers In Medicine, which present has 2 clinics successful Indio and Palm Springs. The Springs Woman has supported Volunteers successful Medicine since 2014, raising successful excess of $150,000 for this captious nonprofit wrong our community. We look guardant to continuing our enactment done this luncheon bid successful summation to our yearly Jeans & Jewels Country Western Gala connected Feb. 25, 2023.”
Seen successful the assemblage were Barbara Garakian, Joan Lynch, Frank and Mary Ann Xavier, Sharon Heiser, Tom Hockin, Judie Johnson, Ellen Schaller, Margaret Viland, Louise Babagian, Laura Conti, Sheri Dickson, Cindy Davis, Joan Dodge, Fran Muir, Leslee Effler, Judy Friednash, Joseph and Imelda Gregov, Judy Holt, Carole Krechman, Joan-Luther Young, Sue Mannos, Deborah Mayer, Marion Miller, Cathy Muldoon, Norma Person, Karol Pozzebon, Anne Roberson, Judith Schliessmann, Bev Wolvek and Jacqueline Zimowski.
History
The Springs Woman was the brainchild of Judie Johnson, who had a imagination that she turned into reality, which has helped much than 40,000 uninsured oregon under-insured residents of the Coachella Valley person needed wellness attraction done CVVIM.
The Springs Woman volition big 5 further luncheons arsenic portion of their luncheon series. The dates are Dec. 15; Jan. 19, 2023; Feb. 16, 2023; March 16, 2023; and April 20, 2023.
For much information, telephone (760) 324-8292 oregon sojourn thespringsrm.com.
Madeline Zuckerman is proprietor and president of M. Zuckerman Marketing & Public Relations Inc., a strategical marketing, branding, nationalist relations and peculiar events steadfast with offices successful Rancho Mirage and Newport Beach, California. Her clients person included South Coast Plaza, Pacific Symphony and Tiffany & Co. successful Orange County and Desert Arc, Olive Crest and Mama's House present successful the desert. She is simply a Founder of McCallum Theatre and has been a impermanent newsman with The Desert Sun for the past 14 years.
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