For the second year in a row a local farmer has selected Hospice of Orleans to receive a $2,500 donation from America’s Farmers Grow Communities, a Monsanto Fund. Charles Mathes of Mathes Farms in Holley (right), and Jeff Cunningham, Monsanto’s Northeast Business Manager (left), kicked off the Hospice Beat the Winter Blues event at Leonard Oakes Estate Winery in Medina by presenting Nyla Gaylord, Director of Development, with a check for $2,500.
A sell-out crowd Beat the Winter Blues and enjoyed hors d’oeuves and improvisational jazz and blues by Doug Egling and Mike Putman on guitars. A surprise guest, Kate Egling, sang some old blues tunes accompanied by Doug and Mike. Leonard Oakes Estate Winery, represented by brother and sister duo Wendy Oakes Wilson and Darrel Oakes, served as hosts of the event and provided the first glass of Blanc d’Orleans wine free.
Since 2013, for every bottle of their white wine, Blanc d’Orleans sold, $1 goes to Hospice of Orleans, the county’s only licensed provider of comprehensive end-of-life care.
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