Dining
BRUNO AWARDED AS A CNN HERO!
03.23.11
By Sheryll Alexander
Ever since he graced the pages of People magazine and was featured with Katie Couric on the CBS Evening News, we’ve been waiting for Anaheim White House proprietor and bon vivant, Bruno Serato, to get more national attention for his good works as a philanthropist extraordinaire.
That hope will become a reality on Friday, Mar. 25, as Serato is being lauded as a real CNN Hero!
Serato secretly flew to New York a couple of weeks back to tape the broadcast (and then went onto Italy to visit Mama), which shows how he feeds more than 40,000 underprivileged “motel kids” via the Anaheim Boys & Girls Club each year.
Why is CNN honoring Serato with such a prestigious award and how did he get started feeding the hungry?
In honor of his beloved mother, Serato founded Caterina’s Club whose mission is to make sure that the region’s most vulnerable population – its children -- receive a hot meal before they are tucked into bed. So, each day at 6 p.m., 150 dinners are prepared and delivered to poor children who live in low-cost motel rooms without full kitchens.
Don’t want to miss Bruno's do-good CNN Hero segment? Here’s the airing schedule:
Friday, March 25
CNN: 8 a.m., 11 a.m., 2 p.m., 11 p.m.
HLN (formerly known as Headline News): 6:30 a.m., 1:30 p.m., 6 p.m., 8 p.m.
CNN International: 2 a.m., 6 a.m., 7 p.m.
Saturday, March 26
CNN: 2 a.m., 6 a.m., 9 a.m., 10 a.m., 2 p.m., 3 p.m., 5 p.m., 10 p.m.
HLN: 8 a.m., 11: 30 a.m., 2:30 p.m.
Monday, March 28
CNN: 1 a.m.
CNN En Espanol: 7 p.m.
Anaheim White House, 887 S. Anaheim Blvd., Anaheim, 714-772-1381, www.anaheimwhitehouse.com.
Sheryll Alexander is a freelance lifestyles editor and writer based in Costa Mesa.
BASEBALL, BBQ & JAPAN RELIEF
03.22.11
By Sheryll Alexander
Want to help Japan and eat some good barbecue too? Head on over to any one of six Beach Pit BBQ locations on Mar. 28 and half of all sales will be donated to locally-operated charities in Japan to aid earthquake and tsunami survivors in Sendai, Japan. Plus, Saddleback Church’s PEACE Relief Mission Program has agreed to match Beach Pit BBQ’s contribution up to $30,000.
Inspired by his daughters Delaney, Riley and Paige, who set up a bake sale last year for Haiti relief, DeCinces held a similar sales and matching fundraiser at three Beach Pit locations. He and his guests, along with matching funds from the mission program, raised more than $38,000, which was used to build a water filtration system at a Haitian village devastated by the earthquake and hurricanes.
DeCinces says Japan is close to his heart as he lived there for a time as a youth while his professional baseball player father played for Japan’s Yakult Swallows. So, DeCinces is working closely with Sendai-based professional baseball team, the Rakuten Eagles, to give the money raised directly to the Sendai community to aid in relief efforts.
Beach Pit BBQ Locations
Costa Mesa, 1676 Tustin Ave., Costa Mesa., 949-645-7427
Old Town Tustin, 560 El Camino Real, Tustin, 714-929-7427
Old Towne Orange, 128 N. Glassell St., Orange, 714-633-7427
Downtown Huntington Beach, 301 Main St., Huntington Beach, 714 374-3033.
Laguna Niguel, 32371 Golden Lantern, Laguna Niguel, 949-496-7427.
Aliso Viejo, 926541 Aliso Creek Rd., Aliso Viejo, 949-362-7427.
Sheryll Alexander is a lifestyles editor and writer based in Costa Mesa, California.
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