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Cooking for Wishes Luncheon

The eighth annual event from Make-A-Wish Southern Florida raised $320,000 to grant life-changing wishes to 40 critically ill children.

Photography by Rebecca Baxter February 26, 2018

Taiguera Alves Goulart, Amanada Lopes, Brianna Xynidis

Westcoast Black Theatre Troupe

Tom Doan

Tablescape

Linda Doan, Joanne Roberti, Terri Klauber (co-chair), Donna Koffman, Mary Gratehouse

Brenda Maraman, Wendy Merriman, Elaine Hershberger, Clare Murphy, Laura Leeming

Melissa Lerner, Beth Knopik, Susie Pelton, Emily Barley, Lindsey Meshberger

Terri Saba, Josh Sankes, Karen Van Lindork, Brianne Oliva

Emily Barley, Norm Wedderburn, Richard Kelley

Jennifer Currie, Joan Wiley, Emily Barley (wish child), Theresa Barley, Linda Barley

Daria Spina, Donna Koffman

Renee Phinney (co-chair), Rebecca Blitz (regional director of Make-A-Wish)

Rochelle Nigri, Tomeika Koski, Jeromy Shelby

Lara Yull, Kristina Swain, Janet Kempton

Dondra Walker

Elena Reuter, Shree Sastry, Linda Harrison

Marcia Krajewski, Melissa Sayers

Shelly Glenn, Melissa Howard, Minoo Messinger, Susie Pelton

Kamila Wysocka, Christina Bonilla

Lydia Bohn, Victoria Warren, Jim and Tara Cocco, Tak Konstantinou, Erin and Beaver Shriver, James Warren

Ashley Brito, Nicole Baker, Kate Walker

Candice Miller, Lindsey Meshberger

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The theme for the interactive luncheon at Michael's On East was A Taste of Africa; also featured were a live auction and the celebration of Emily, a local teen with cerebral palsy whose wish to go to South Africa was recently granted.

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