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Sandy Segerstrom Daniels
06.25.12
The Founder
A philanthropist and visionary, the organization’s Founder and Executive Director, Sandy Segerstrom Daniels, has many years of business experience in her role as Managing Partner of C.J. Segerstrom & Sons and retail shopping center South Coast Plaza. She is highly committed to her cause.
Festival of Children Foundation’s History
Festival of Children Foundation was founded in 2002 by Sandy Segerstrom Daniels, who envisioned an organization that would build a coalition of youth serving organizations all with the same goal: to improve and enrich the lives of children in our communities, and develop programs and resources for this coalition. The Foundation partners with member children’s charities, corporations, institutions, foundations, and individuals to offer resources and programs to youth serving organizations. To date, Festival of Children Foundation serves over 470 member organizations in all 50 states and collectively represents over two million of America’s children.
1. If you had to begin a different career, what would you do?
Tour Bus Driver
2.What’s your most prized possession?
My sanity...while I still have it.
3. Favorite drink?
I'm big on water during the day and a nice glass of something white in the evening.
4. What are you cutting out because of the economy?
I live within my means, so nothing really. Maybe frivolous car trips.
5. Fantasy purchase?
A penthouse apartment in New York or Chicago.
6. What can’t you live without?
My family!
7. What’s next on your “to do” list?
Tap dancing lessons.
8. Biggest regret?
Not continuing to study piano. My mom was a concert pianist and I only learned enough to get in and out of music school.
9. Cause that you’re most interested/involved in?
Can I say, my own?
10. Your dream day in Orange County?
I'm so easy, I love doing errands with my sister.
11. Favorite place for breakfast?
My kitchen…in my robe…with a great cup of coffee and a Trader Joe’s scone!
12. What was the best day of your life?
There are three actually: The days I got to watch each one of my three grandkids being born.
13. Last concert that you went to?
Pacific Symphony Orchestra
14. Favorite vacation spot?
Maui
15. If you had to live somewhere else, where would you like to move?
Maui
16. Favorite books?
Cookbooks!
17. Favorite restaurants in Orange County?
Marche Moderne, Il Barone and Mastro’s Ocean Club.
18. Biggest accomplishment?
Getting September recognized as National Child Awareness Month.
19. What’s your biggest fear?
Being home alone and falling down the stairs.
20. Secret most people don't know about you
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Dining
Eat Out and Help Out
06.25.12
A local foodie’s favorite spot in downtown Brea, Cha Cha’s Latin Kitchen, is giving back to the community today through Thursday with a charity event to help a local single mom, named Linda, who is in need of financial help while fighting both cancer and heart failure. Her story touched the heart of Cha Cha’s co-owners Don Myers and Peter Serantoni, who found out that she had lost her job and is living in a local hotel with her girls.
The restaurant will offer a “Giveback Menu” featuring three-courses for $24.95. Ten dollars from every sale of this menu will go directly to Linda’s family, to help cover her medical expenses. Guests can also make monetary or gift card donations, which will be collected at Cha Cha’s or at Southland Church on 2950 East Imperial Highway in Brea.
Cha’s Cha’s features a California-Latin inspired menu with savory dishes prepared in the wood-fired oven, free-range Jidori chickens are roasted to perfection and tacos are topped with homemade fire-roasted salsas. In the lively lounge enjoy handcrafted cocktails made with freshly squeezed juices, house-made infusions, and seasonal fruit.
Cha Cha’s offers popular happy hour fare, and live Latin bands make it a festive ambience. Open 11:30 a.m. to 9:30 p.m. Monday through Wednesday; 11:30 a.m. to 11 p.m. Thursday; 11:30 a.m. to midnight Friday and Saturday; and Sunday 11 a.m. to 9:30 p.m.; Sunday brunch form 11 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. and dinner nightly. Cha Cha’s is at 110 W. Birch St., Brea. For more information visit [url=http://www.chachaslatinkitchen.com]http://www.chachaslatinkitchen.com[/url] or 714.240.1055.
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