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'Cookie Table & Cocktails' Fundraiser Set for Feb. 16
YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio -- The inaugural "Cookie Table & Cocktails" will take place Feb. 16 in the new Tyler Mahoning Valley History Center, West Federal Street.
The event is organized by the Young Leaders Advisory Board, a group within the Mahoning Valley Historical Society composed of members between the ages of 21 and 50, as a vehicle to fund new exhibits and educational programs at the history center.
“For almost 10 years, YLAB has been sponsoring a successful ‘History to Go’ series of free tours and lectures in which the public can explore our local historic treasures,” said Frank Rulli, event chairman and board president. "Over the past two years, we’ve watched the Harry Burt/Ross Radio Building being transformed into the Tyler History Center -- which is going to be one of the Valley’s premier historic treasures -- so we decided to come up with a special project to support it.”
As members discussed ideas at a recent meeting, the cookie table theme was the top choice, and Rulli said there’s a long-running debate between Youngstown and Pittsburgh as to where the tradition began. “No one can prove for sure where or when it started,” Rulli said, “but we know the Mahoning Valley makes the best cookie tables.”
Guests will have the opportunity to taste and vote for their favorite cookies in both amateur and professional categories. A sizeable table in the middle of the ballroom will be laden with trays of treats such as buckeyes, kifles, pizzelles, clothespins, biscotti and more.
Coming on board as Cookie Table & Cocktails Title Sponsor is D’Vino Ristorante, a new Trumbull County restaurant run by chef Daimer Cescon that opened recently in the lower level of Alberini’s in Niles.
Cescon, a native of Italy, has been a chef at deluxe restaurants in Europe and Japan including the three-star Michelin restaurant Le Calandre just outside of Venice.
The event will offer music, dancing, appetizers, beverages and, of course, the cookie table. For more information, call Cheryl Staib Lewis, Mahoning Valley History Center campaign director, at 330 743 2638.
Published by The Business Journal, Youngstown, Ohio.
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