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Andrew J. Torres Memorial Golf Tournament -
April 18, 2005
La Canada Country Club
Recently friends from La Cañada contacted us and generously offered HMRI the proceeds for cancer research from their golf tournament. The First Annual 2nd Lt. Andrew Torres Memorial Golf Tournament is scheduled for April 18, 2005, at the La Cañada Country Club. Andrew Torres was a young Marine, a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy, who died from liver cancer in 2004 at the age of 23.
Andrew's mother, Anita Brenner Torres, told us that before he died Andrew had his parents promise to help find a cure for his kind of cancer. She met with Dr. Riggins and program director Dr. Michael Harrington and was impressed with the direction and objectives of their research on liver tumors. We will apply the funds to support a new project by Dr. James Riggins in the Molecular Neurology Laboratory to find markers for liver cancer.
Many of Andrew's friends from Flintridge Prep, Class of 1998, are on the organizing committee and have created a website with tournament information at www.andrewtorres.org.
Invitation to "A Tuscan Sunday"
The Altadena Guild will offer a quick trip to Italy at the 54th annual home tour, "A Tuscan Sunday," on May 1. The tour benefits HMRI's research programs. Co-chairs Marie Darr and Julie Manning and Guild members are preparing beautiful homes and gardens for visitors, anchored by an open piazza filled with market umbrellas, strolling musicians and rustic carts.
Tour hours are 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., with a garden café offering complimentary coffee and dessert opening at 11:00. This will be situated on a gently rolling lawn with graceful palms. Handmade boutique items will be available for sale from market carts in the colorful piazza as will "street art" from Guild members' original creations.
Three stately Altadena houses, built in 1922, 1926 and 1927, will be featured on the tour. Renovations have retained original architectural features and have been done with sensitivity to the historical significance of the structures. One home features extensive decorative painting and a garden and arbor designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, Jr.
An elegant Italian Period Revival home, owned by the Balian family and well known throughout the area for its extensive lights and decorations during the holiday season since 1955, features extensive custom woodwork. It also has a special connection with HMRI's early history. Wine tasting in the garden here will be a new feature of the tour, at an extra cost of $8.
Guild members' specialty food items will be for sale at one of the houses on the tour, and a beautiful, handmade, queen-sized quilt is being offered as an "opportunity drawing" item. As always, floral arrangements prepared by Guild members will grace all the homes.
Guild president Kathy Klomburg invites everyone to enjoy this special day, saying, "Although our tour is located in our own Altadena hills, you will think you have been transported to the hills of Tuscany."
Tickets cost $22 in advance and are available at Huntington Hospital Gift Shop, HMRI at 734 Fairmount and 99 N. El Molino, the Altadena Webster's Shopping Center, in the Pharmacy, and at Mofit, 1389 E. Washington Blvd. in Pasadena. The day of the tour they can be purchased for $25 at the corner of Allen and Mendocino.
For additional information call 626.304-4678 or visit www.altadenaguild.org.
