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CONTACT: Gioia Pastre 626-449-2919, ext. 18 PASADENA – Everyone enjoyed a fun-filled day at Villa Esperanza Guild’s 8th Annual “A Day of Thoroughbred Racing” held at the Santa Anita Turf Club on February 28, 2004. The event raised over $36,000 to support the Residential Programs at Villa Esperanza Services, a Pasadena based non-profit organization that serves a diverse disabled population of children, adults, and seniors. Since its inception in 1968, the Guild has raised close to one million dollars on behalf of Villa. Benefit Committee members include Guild President Judi Moore of Bradbury; Joan Carmichael, Marie Jones, Georgene Neely, Barbara Jameson, and Anne Letton of San Marino; Sally Irving of San Gabriel; Cynthia Lewis, Mary Hess and Shirley Struble of Pasadena. Villa Esperanza Services was founded in 1961 by a group of San Marino and Pasadena mothers who believed their developmentally disabled children deserved quality care and education. Today, Villa serves over 1050 individuals with disabilities and their families in Los Angeles and Ventura Counties. |
