Now in its 78th year of providing innovative services to local seniors, Peninsula Volunteers Inc. is raising funds for the future next month with an evening gala featuring The Righteous Brothers at Villa Montalvo in Saratoga.
A Benefit with Ballads and Bubbles will be held Friday, Sept. 12. Guests will enjoy a wonderful evening of cocktails, a seated dinner, silent and live auctions, and dancing the night away to the soul-stirring music of The Righteous Brothers, Bill Medley and Bucky Heard.
Beginning at 4:30 p.m., the gala will start with a cocktail reception in the villa’s front veranda and Spanish courtyard and the “bubbles” portion of the benefit. Seventy-eight glasses of champagne – one to mark each year of the organization’s history— will be available for purchase. Seventy-seven of those glasses will have a crystal of cubic zirconia sparkling at its bottom, but one lucky celebrant will find a diamond worth $10,000 in his or her glass. The diamond fundraiser is sponsored by Gleim the Jeweler, whose staff will be on hand with jeweler’s loupes to help find the winner.
The reception will be followed by a seated dinner and live auction. Highlights of the auction include an African safari; seven-night stay at a villa in Croatia; two seats at an invitation-only dinner at Opus One Winery in Napa Valley; and a six-night stay at a vacation home in Whitefish, Montana.
The gala will culminate with an hour-long concert by The Righteous Brothers, Bill Medley and Bucky Heard, as they take guests through a musical odyssey of their decades of hits.
Founded in 1947, Peninsula Volunteers Inc. runs Little House, which offers classes, activities and an affordable lunch program for seniors; and Rosener House, which provides adult day services to seniors with Alzheimer’s, dementia and chronic conditions. They also deliver 3,000 hot meals every week as a Peninsula provider of Meals on Wheels, provide a free bag of groceries to about 150 seniors a week and staff a phone line that helps seniors schedule affordable Lyft and Uber rides. Their new service for family caregivers, Quiescence, offers specialized concierge assistance that helps families plan care and coordinate with other providers and services.
Peninsula Volunteers Inc. CEO Peter Olson says that in times of government funding cuts and financial uncertainty, it’s especially important for the community to rally and support seniors here in their neighborhoods.
“The need for services has never been more important,” he said. “And everything starts here at home.”
For more information and to buy tickets to the gala, go to https://1pvi.org/bbb2025. Sponsors of the Gala include Gleim the Jeweler, Sutter Health, Capital Group and more. For more information about becoming a sponsor, contact Lisa Murphy at [email protected] or (407) 256-3884.