Clean Water Fund’s Autumn Toast to a Healthy Environment

What better way to celebrate the bounty of fall than golden autumn colors, crisp weather, yummy harvest fare and time spent with family and friends at Clean Water Fund’s 5th Annual Autumn Toast to a Healthy Environment wine and chocolate tasting and charity auction. The event is being held Sunday, October 5th from 1:00 to 4:00 pm at the Pine Barrens Golf Club’s beautiful Adirondack-style club house and outdoor patio, located at 540 South Hope Chapel Rd. in Jackson, NJ.

Guests will enjoy sipping wine and tasting chocolate with J. Emanuel Chocolatier and Sommelier Louis Fontenelli while listening to live jazz by the Sandy Sasso Jazz Quartet. The day also features savory hors d’oeuvres, a special raffle featuring wines made right here in New Jersey, along with chance and silent auctions featuring amazing gifts including:

• Brand new cruiser bicycle; golf outing for four at the Pine Barrens golf club; golf outing for four at Eagle Ridge golf club; sailing tickets aboard the AJ Meerwald; and The Atlantic Club wellness package.
• Tickets to Adventure Aquarium, Algonquin Arts Theatre, Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts, Arden Theatre Co., Eastern State Penitentiary, Garden State Film Festival, Lakewood Blue Claws, Lantern Theater, the Stone Pony, The Wilma Theater, and Opera Philadelphia.
• 2013 NY Giants Team Collectors Football featuring the autograph of each 2013 team member and Head Coach Tom Coughlin; NJ Devils autographed Center Ice Magazine by Travis Zajac #19 and signed hockey puck; and NY Jets gift TBA.
• Gift cards to Asbury Park Roastery, Brando’s Citi Cucina, Cheesecake Factory, Grand Lux Café, Laurita Winery Vineyards & Inn, Lobster Chanty, Maggiano’s Little Italy, McLoone’s Restaurants, Mompou Tapas & Wine Restaurant, Seasons 52, Speakeatery, Via 45, Whole Foods, and Watermark.
• Gift baskets from the Stone Pony and Wonderbar, The Honest Co., Hot Sand AP, Massage Envy Spa of Toms River, Sarah’s Kiddles, Salon Bliss, Starbucks, Stella y Luna, Trader Joe’s, The Organic Face, Terracycle, Toad Hollow, White Butterfly, Whole Foods and much, much more!
  

Admission is $50 in advance or $75 per person, $125 per couple at the door. Event is rain or shine. For more information and to purchase tickets, click here or contact Jenny Vickers at njcwa@cleanwater.org or 732-963-9714.

The event will benefit Clean Water Fund’s programs to keep New Jersey’s streams, rivers, lakes, and ocean free of pollution, preserve open space, improve public health, and create environmentally-safe jobs and businesses. Clean Water Fund’s most recent success includes stopping a gas pipeline from being built in the heart of the NJ Pinelands, a source of drinking water for millions.

Autumn Toast gives thanks our gracious event sponsors: Dr. Joseph & Janet Tauro, Ocean County Sports Medicine, International Brotherhood of Teamsters – Port Division, John and Diane Burke, The Fontenelli Family, Gayle and Howard Gross, George Harms Construction Co., Mr. and Mrs. Hardell, Dilworth Paxson LLP, Kopp Solar, Michele Donato, Esq., Tom and Lynda Fote, Rodger and Jane Nogaki, and William and Sharon Finlayson.