Don’t miss this extraordinary fete, featuring a multicourse gourmet menu, with specially selected delectable wines that accompany each course. This glamorous event also includes a champagne reception, enticing silent and live auction lots, lively entertainment, and dancing. WCCO radio’s Michele Tafoya will emcee the event, which will be attended by leaders of the Twin Cities philanthropic and corporate communities.
Michele Tafoya—host of WCCO radio's "Michele Tafoya Show"—will emcee the WineFest Fine Wine Dinner on Saturday, May 8. Tafoya, is a graduate from the University of California Berkeley with a degree in broadcast journalism, and the University of Southern California with a masters in business administration. She was honored in 97' by The American Women in Radio and Television with a Gracie Award for "Outstanding Achievement by an Individual On-Air TV Personality" for her WNBA work with Lifetime.
Opening in 2011, University of Minnesota Amplatz Children’s Hospital will be an ecologically friendly, 200+ bed, 227,000-square-foot facility that consolidates in one patient- and family-centered location the hospital’s 50 pediatric specialties. As Minnesota’s only children’s hospital part of an academic health center, University of Minnesota Amplatz Children’s Hospital is home to one of the nation’s top 20 pediatric research programs. Here, physicians and nurses not only deliver the latest innovations, they create them. Learn more...
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