Buy wine – help at-risk local kids
Only in Wine County do you find a fundraiser like this:
For every bottle of Anaba Wines sold in January, $2 will be donated to Sonoma Valley Mentoring Alliance (SVMA).
January is National Mentoring Month, and SVMA is one of the nation’s lead mentoring organizations.
For 20 years SVMA has been providing at-risk Sonoma Valley students one-on-one mentoring relationships with caring, trusting adults. Currently, SVMA has 450 adult mentors paired with 450 at-risk students, and 150 youth waitlisted for mentors.
Anaba Wines proprietors John and Kathleen Sweazey have been long-time supports of SVMA and this marks the 4th year that they have donated wine profits to the non-profit.
The fundraiser runs from now until January 31.
Wines must be bought at the Anaba Wines tasting room located at 60 Bonneau Rd, Sonoma | 10:30AM-5:30PM | 996-4188 | anabawines.com.
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You have got to be kidding. Encourage the adults in the valley kids’ lives to drink more booze in order to help fund an alliance that supports lots of those kids, whose lives are negatively affected by their parents’ substance abuse, leading them to require mentors — because their own parents are such poor role models. Only in Sonoma is right.
Totally agree. It’s like a revolving door.
We are grateful to the Sweazeys of Anaba Wines for their longtime support of our Valleys youth. They have consistently been behind our Stand By Me Program now in its 20th year. We appreciate their generous promotion during Natl Mentoring Month. Every dollar they send our way makes a difference in our programming!
I applaud community members and businesses who give back to their communities. The wine and grape growing industry employs many of the valley’s residents. The purchase of nice bottle of wine to enjoy with a meal is a far cry from promoting and enabling “substance abuse”.