This year’s Grapes and Gourmet Guys benefit — featuring local “gourmet guys” who are not professional chefs cooking up their signature dishes — is set for 6 to 9 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 13.
This year, more than 20 area male leaders will compete at the event, which is returning to the St. George Family Center at 3204 Ridgewood Road in Copley Township.
Patrons will get to sample each dish, along with a variety of wines.
The fundraiser, in its ninth year, has raised tens of thousands of dollars for GriefCare Place in Stow, which provides counseling services to the grieving.
Patrons, along with representatives of local service organizations who will be on a panel of judges, will vote to determine the “People’s Choice,” the “Judges’ Choice,” the “Show Me the Money” award and the “Selfie Award.”
The Hudson School of Music Jazz Trio will entertain.
Tickets are $60 ($450 for a table of eight) and include two glasses of wine, silent and oral auctions, a wine pull, entertainment, and one “Show Me the Money” vote.
A total of $41 of the ticket price is tax deductible.
For tickets and information, call The GriefCare Place at 330-686-1750.
The list of this year’s Gourmet Guys includes: Summit County Domestic Relations Magistrate Ron Cable; Jacob Derenthal, an area lawyer; the Rev. Norm Douglas; Steve French of WNIR, Tom Loepp, an area lawyer; Summit County Common Pleas Court Judge Todd McKenney, Stephen Moushey, an account representative for an area company; Stow Councilman John Pribonic; Gavin Scott, Summit County Common Pleas Court Judge Tom Teodosio, Greg Hullinger, Bob Pacanovsky, and Ron Coleman.