Cooking up Change - Healthy Schools Campaign

Auction & Raffle

Bid One, Bid All!

View Live Auction Items › View Silent Auction Items ›

If you cannot attend Cooking up Change but would like to place a proxy bid on an item, please contact Susan at the HSC office: 312-419-1810 or Susan@healthyschoolscampaign.org

The Cooking up Change raffle prize is two round-trip domestic airline tickets and $500 toward accomodations (some restrictions and/or expiration dates apply). The cost is $20 per ticket or three tickets for $50. Purchase tickets in advance.

Healthy Schools Campaign gratefully acknowledges the generosity of Travelport, Inc./Orbitz.com for sponsoring our raffle. We also thank our generous auction donors.

Descriptions are as of 9/18/06 and are subject to change. Additional items may be added prior to the event.

Live Auction

• The live auction will take place at approximately 7:45 p.m.
• Bidders signal interest by raising a hand
• Placing a bid represents a commitment to purchase the item if bid is the highest offered
• Payment is accepted by cash, check or Visa/MC
• A winning bidder who is not present at checkout will be contacted to arrange payment and item pick-up/delivery

L1 Chow Down with the "Hungry Hound"
Get up close and personal with Steve Dolinsky, Chicago’s renowned "Hungry Hound," ABC Channel 7's lifestyle and food reporter in Chicago. You and three lucky guests will dine with this fascinating culinary celebrity at Kendall College’s dazzling new downtown campus. Phil Mott, restauranteur, former owner of Le Francais in Wheeling, faculty member at Kendall College and Cooking up Change Co-Chair will personally prepare a delightful gourmet dinner full of surprises. In addition to his work with Channel 7, Steve Dolinsky is Food Reporter for WBEZ-FM (Chicago Public Radio) and a contributor to "The World" on Public Radio International. Steve has received numerous awards for his engaging work. His reporting on the culinary scene has garnered him twelve James Beard Awards. His assignments have taken him into kitchens throughout Chicago and across the globe. Expires September 30, 2007.

Donors: Steve Dolinsky; Phil Mott; Kendall College
Value: Priceless

L2 Private Vacation Villa in Mexico
Adios Chicago, Hola Mexico! Break away from the all inclusive resort scene during a luxurious five night/six day stay at Casa Zanoni, a private home on the Bay of Banderas just 20 minutes north of Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. One of only eight private residences in a gated community sharing a beautiful, large swimming pool, Casa Zanoni adjoins 26 miles of spectacular ocean beaches. You will enjoy three bedrooms, three and a half baths, a fully equipped kitchen, Cable TV, wireless internet connection, a private garden, patios, and two days of maid services.

Bucerias, a lovely fishing village filled with wonderful restaurants and shopping, is five minutes from several golf courses and steps away from beachfront para-sailing, surfing, horseback riding, and more activities. Casa Zanoni offers maps of the town to assist you in finding any services you may need during your stay. Taxis service is readily available for a short ride to Puerto Vallarta. English spoken throughout the village.

Available May through October 2007 based on availability. A rental agreement is required prior to occupying the house, and reservations are requested well in advance. Additional days stay, cooks, booking excursions, and increased maid services are available at competitive rental prices. Limit 6 guests.

Donors: Catherine and Leo Zanoni
Value: $2,500

L3 Spatulatta Webcast Experience
One-of-a-kind opportunity to appear with the youngest ever James Beard Awards Winners, Olivia and Isabella Garasole, on their innovative cooking Webcast on Spatulatta.com. Appear before the many viewers who log on to this exciting online show. See how a Webcast is filmed. More details to be provided at the event.

Donor: Spatulatta
Value: Priceless

Silent Auction

• The opening bid must meet minimum bid requirement
• Subsequent bids must match or exceed designated raise amount
• Please print your name and phone number legibly
• Placing a bid represents a commitment to purchase the item if bid is the highest offered
• Silent auction tables on the lower tier close at 8:15 p.m.; upper tirer tables close at 8:30; last bid wins item
• Payment is accepted by cash, check or Visa/MC
• A winning bidder who is not present at checkout will be contacted to arrange payment and item pick-up/delivery

Dining

D1 A Night to Remember ~ In Home Catered Sustainable Dinner
You and five lucky friends will experience some of the best food and wine Chicago has to offer in the comfort and privacy your own home. Chef Melissa Graham of Monogramme Events & Catering and Damien Casten of Candid Wines will design a menu pairing Melissa's culinary creativity with limited production wines from around the world. Damien and Melissa will provide information on the wines, the produce and the cooking techniques. Not just another wine dinner, this is a unique culinary experience that will leave you and your guests satisfied, informed and happy. Organic and sustainably grown food and wine are at the heart of everything Monogramme Events and Candid Wines do. Includes shopping, preparation, set up, service, and clean up. Your job – show up! Expires September 26, 2007. Must be 21 or older.
Donors: Monogramme Events & Catering LLC; Candid Wines
Value: $1,600

D2 mk The Restaurant
Savor a truly memorable dinner for two at mk The Restaurant created by Executive Chef Todd Stein. This dazzling fine dining restaurant in downtown Chicago created by Chef/Owner Michael Kornick will thrill and amaze you. According to Chicago Tribune restaurant critic, Phil Vettel, “mk is truly worth savoring.” Expires August 8, 2007
Donor: mk The Restaurant
Value: $200

D3 Green Zebra Private Cooking Lessons and Chef’s Dinner
Learn from the pro. Go behind the scenes at this hip and bold contemporary vegetarian restaurant devoted to the celebration of seasonality, freshness and flavor. Certificate is for a private cooking lesson with Chef de Cuisine Christine Kim and a Chef’s dinner for two at 1460 W. Chicago. Expires September 30, 2007.
Donor: Green Zebra
Value: $450

D4 Frontera Grill
Let world famous Chef Rick Bayless wow you with his Mexican-inspired menu. This top-notch Chicago restaurant at 445 N. Clark continues to get rave reviews.
Expires September 26, 2007. Try some of Chef Bayless’ recipes at home with his brand new book, Mexican Everyday.
Donor: Frontera Grill & Topolobampo
Value: $130

D5 Chez You
Be a guest at your own dinner party! A rising chef will prepare and serve a four course dinner for six guests in your own home on a mutually agreed upon date. Kendall culinary arts student Rodger Campbell will work with you to design a menu to your taste, shop for the ingredients, prepare the meal, serve the food, and even clean up! Select from his repertoire of recipes or have him prepare your family favorites. You and your guests will savor the taste of Cima Colinna wine from this artisan California vineyard. Case of your choosing to be shipped directly to winning bidder, 21 years or older. Note: Cost of meal ingredients and beverages are not included. Expires September 30, 2007. Chicago and surrounding suburbs.
Donor: Chez You; Richard Lumpkin Value: $600

D6 Joey’s Brickhouse
Experience one of Chicago’s most popular casual dining restaurants, Joey’s Brickhouse, serving popular American cuisine at 1258 W. Belmont. Two $50 gift certificates, no expiration.
Donor: Joey’s Brickhouse
Value: $100

D7A & D7B The Cooking and Hospitality Institute (2 packages available)
Watch future chefs learn their trade at the The Cooking and Hospitality Institute of Chicago at 361 W. Chestnut and you can say, "I knew them when…" Includes dinner for four. Do try this at home wearing your Cooking up Change apron. Expires September 2007.
Donor: The Cooking and Hospitality Institute of Chicago; Healthy Schools Campaign
Value: $115

D8A & D8B Kendall College Dining Room (2 certificates available)
Watch the creativity flow before your eyes as the eager and talented culinary arts students at Kendall College prepare a feast for you and a guest. The stunning dining room is located in Kendall’s new Goose Island campus on Chicago’s Near West Side. Expires September 26, 2007.
Donor: Kendall College
Value: $100

D9 Chef’s In-Home Dinner
Culinary school trained professional Chef Melissa Santiago will prepare a four-course gourmet dinner for six in the privacy of your home. She will consult with you to design a menu to suit your tastes and prepare a shopping list for you. On the big day she will come to your home, prepare the feast, and do the clean up. She will set up and serve if you desire, or disappear to give you more privacy. Does not include cost of food, wine or other beverages. Dinner to be arranged on a mutually agreeable date, preferably on weekends, in Chicago or surrounding suburbs. Expires September 30, 2007.
Donor: Melissa Santiago Value: $300

D10 Rising Chefs Package
Washburne Culinary Institute will treat you to dinner for four with a bottle of wine in The Parrot Cage Restaurant at the South Shore Cultural Center plus a Saturday cooking class for four also at South Shore in Washburne Culinary Institute's beautiful kitchen overlooking Lake Michigan at 7059 S. South Shore Blvd.
Donor: Washburne Culinary Institute
Value: $360

Food & Wine

F1 Supermarket Smarts
Feeling overwhelmed navigating the grocery aisles and interpreting nutritional labels? Join the crowd. Dena Mendes from The Healthy Alternatives Group feels your pain and will take you through a local Whole Foods Market to give you tips on making great tasting healthy food an integral party of your life. Learn how to get your family to eat and enjoy healthy alternative options. Tour lasts 1.5 hours. Tour to be held at a Chicagoland Whole Foods Market. Expires September 30, 2007. Includes $50 in Whole Foods Market gift cards.
Donors: The Healthy Alternatives Group; Whole Foods Market
Value: $250

F2 Heritage Turkey
Call the in-laws, cuz you’ll be needing help devouring this 22-pound fresh turkey. Rich, juicy, exceptionally flavorful and never frozen, Heritage turkeys mate naturally, live long lives and are rare because they have been ignored by industrial agriculture. Heritage turkeys are the only direct descendents of the first domesticated flocks in the United States. You have to eat them to save them! This big boy will be delivered to your home on November 21, 2007. All you need is a big enough oven and hungry mouths to gobble it up. Better wear your Cooking up Change apron to keep your britches clean. And the Fresh Choices cookbook will help you with the sides.
Donors: Heritage Foods USA; Healthy Schools Campaign
Value: $245

F3 For the Sommelier Wannabe
The head of Sam’s Wine and Spirits wine division will give two hours of time and walk you through the aisles of the wine department pointing out the “must haves” in any wine cellar. Includes information on each bottle picked and appropriate food pairing. Also includes a wine tasting and lecture for four at any Sam’s store of the Sam’s private wines and special picks from France, California and Champagne. Also includes 10% off purchase from the wines that are selected. No expiration. Must be 21 or older.
Donor: Sam’s Wine & Spirits
Value: $300

F4 Culinary Farm Tour
Put on your boots and overalls and get out on the farm for a day. You and a guest will join kindred spirits on an all day guided tour led by Learn Great Foods of two sustainable farms and food producers. This package also includes a hands-on culinary cooking class and gourmet organic dinner. You choose from a variety of locations during the 2007 growing season. Expires September 30, 2007.
Donor: Learn Great Foods
Value: $170

F5 Chef’s Delight
Explore your inner chef by taking two demonstration classes at The Chopping Block’s Lincoln Square or Merchandise Mart locations. Measure your new skills using this stainless steel kitchen scale while wearing your Cooking up Change apron.
Donors: The Chopping Block; M. Block & Sons, Inc.; Healthy Schools Campaign
Value: $175

F6 KitchenAid Chrome Mixer
300 watts of mixing power make child’s play of creaming butter, kneading dough, and whipping cream. This whopper can mix up a batch of cookie dough to make 192 sweet treats. So gorgeous it’s like a piece of sculpture for your counter. Break in your new toy with Gale Gand’s Just a Bite: 125 Luscious Little Desserts wearing your Cooking up Change apron.
Donor: M. Block and Sons, Inc.
Value: $550

F7 Jenn-Air Attrezzi Mixer
High-end and stunningly designed 10-speed mixer will grace your countertop even if you never turn the switch on. Wear your Cooking up Change apron while you whip up a recipe from Gale Gand’s book, Butter, Sugar, Flour, Eggs.
Donors: M. Block and Sons, Inc.; Healthy Schools Campaign
Value: $400

F8 Café Pour Vous
Keurig gourmet single cup home brewing system makes it a snap to brew and enjoy one cup of coffee or tea using mini brewer cups. Includes an 18 coffee and tea variety pack. You may never invite company over again!
Donor: M. Block and Sons, Inc.
Value: $200

F9 Braun Tassimo Brewer
Tassimo lets you enjoy a cup of exactly what you want, at the touch of a button. In about a minute you’ll savor an exquisite cup of coffee, tea or hot chocolate. No mess, no grounds, no waiting. Includes starter packages.
Donor: M. Block and Sons, Inc.
Value: $170

F10 Jenn-Air Blender
The large capacity 72 oz glass pitcher on this blender will make enough smoothies for the whole neighborhood. Gorgeous design, high efficiency.
Donor: M. Block and Sons, Inc.
Value: $200

F11 Eli’s Cheesecake World Tour
You and nine friends will tour the bakery at Eli’s Cheesecake World, 6701 W. Forest Preserve Drive. Experience this 62,000 square foot award-winning facility. Learn the history of Eli’s and see how a cheesecake is made from start to finish - including research and development, mixing, baking, hand decorating, and packaging. Taste some of the products fresh off the line. Everyone gets a t-shirt to take home for bragging rights. Expires September 26, 2007.
Donor: The Eli’s Cheesecake Company
Value: $115

F12 World Market Gift Basket
Everything you need for a lovely wine and cheese party at home or on the road. And a $25 gift card to boot!
Donor: Cost Plus World Market
Value: $140

F13 Food Glorious Food
This package includes a canvas market bag stuffed to the brim with yummy goodies from Trader Joe’s to delight you. And take home an exotic array of spices from around the world from the Spice House.
Donor: Trader Joe’s; Spice House
Value: $100

F14 Cookware
Watching the chefs tonight will inspire you to start fresh with a spanking new Calphalon baking set. Wear your Cooking up Change apron while you break in your new pots and pans whipping up treats from Gale Gand’s Butter, Flour, Sugar, Eggs.
Donors: Lois Levine; Healthy Schools Campaign
Value: $85

F15 Fair Trade Coffee Basket
Get your morning fix while helping people of the world with the goodies stuffed into this basket from a Chicago company practicing sustainability .
Donor: Intelligentsia Coffee
Value: $100

F16 Food for Thought
Feed your mind with this collection of intriguing and thought provoking books and a DVD. Includes Eric Schlosser’s Fast Food Nation (a fictionalized version is being released later this year as a full length feature film) and his newest book, Chew on This, geared towards adolescents; Fresh Choices, written by Healthy Schools Campaign’s Executive Director Rochelle Davis, will help you reduce pesticides in your family’s diet. Also includes Super Size Me in DVD.
Donor: Healthy Schools Campaign
Value: $75

F17 Day with a Chef
Join Chef Colin Turner at Tin Fish in Tinley Park or Oakbrook Terrace, considered by many to be two of the best restaurants in the Chicago area. You’ll pick up tips on preparing, purchasing and cooking fresh seafood. Feel like one of the team as you experience what it’s like to work in a restaurant kitchen. Take home your own bottle of wine, a $25 Whole Foods Market gift card to try out your new skills at home while listening to a jazz CD, also included.
Donors: Tin Fish and Barbra Luce-Turner
Value: $175

Body & Mind

B1 Yoga Workshop
Join Global Family Yoga for a one day workshop full of laughter and learning. You will walk away with many tools and techniques to share with the children in your life as well as a deeper understanding of yoga. Based on sound child development principals, the ancient science of yoga is turned into fun, engaging, age appropriate stuff kids love. Rogers Park location. Expires September 30, 2007.
Donor: Global Family Yoga
Value: $85

B2 Yoga to Go
This package includes a 75 minute private yoga session at Yoga North Park near Bryn Mawr and Kedzie in Chicago’s North Park neighborhood or at your home/office between Chicago downtown and Skokie. Expires September 30, 2007.
Donor: Teenie Yogini
Value: $90

B3 Acupuncture
Ease your pain with the help of the ancient tradition of Acupuncture, the use of fine needles to pinpoint and treat pain. Includes one treatment by an experienced acupuncturist at her Evanston office. Expires September 30, 2007.
Donor: Carrie Murphy
Value: $70

B4 Art of Natural Healing
Your choice – a one hour massage or one Oriental Medicine Consultation in this River Forest center. NOTE: Expires December 31, 2006.
Donor: Art of Natural Healing
Value: $100

B5 Hair Today, Gorgeous Tomorrow
You’ll look fetching after your haircut and coloring at this upscale Evanston salon. Cut with Alice; Color with Allison. Expires April 30, 2007.
Donor: Art + Science
Value: $188

B6 Aveda Bounty
Pamper yourself with these fine Aveda cosmetics and hair and body products. Like what you try? Use your $50 Aveda gift card to replenish your supply. Unopened cosmetics can be exchanged for a color that better suits your palette, if you so desire.
Donor: Barbra Luce-Turner
Value: $175

B7 Purity Day Spa
Unplug the phone, send the kids to Grandma’s and delight in a pedicure, back treatment and 90 minute massage in the comfortable surroundings of the Purity Day Spa, Old Town or South Shore locations. Expires September 13, 2007
Donor: Purity Day Spa
Value: $220

B8 Pilates
Strengthen your core muscles with this package which includes three private Pilates lessons at the Rogers Park studio of Pilates Chicago. Expires September 30, 2007.
Donor: Pilates Chicago ~ Jennifer Zumann
Value: $180

B9 Chiropractic Massage Please see bid sheet for details.
Donor: Bucktown Chiropractic Center

B10 Massage Redux
Let the caring hands at the Pacific School of Oriental Medicine massage your cares away while you help a budding massage therapist learn the trade. One hour bodywork session by a student intern. Located at 3646 N. Broadway. Expires December 21, 2007. Valid Tuesday evening or Thursday p.m.
Donor: Pacific School of Oriental Medicine Value: $30

Sports & Fitness

S1 Limited Edition Championship White Sox Collectible
Create a shrine in your home to our beloved 2005 World Champion Chicago White Sox. This 20 x 24 photo includes 25 autographs of the players. Only 60 produced. Includes letter of authenticity. Unbelievable!
Donor: Anonymous
Value: Priceless

S2 White Sox Commemorative Collage
This wall collage displays player cards of the 2005 World Champion White Sox team surrounding a commemorative victory photo. Perfect for a young sport fan’s bedroom, den, or rec room.
Donor: Anonymous
Value: Out of the Park

S3 White Sox Bonanza
Play hooky with three pals and cheer on our beloved White Sox on opening day 2007. Smile for the Jumbotron because you’ll be sitting in four lower deck box seats. The icing on the cake is your very own White Sox baseball signed by legendary manager and hometown hero Ozzie Guillen with letter of authenticity.
Donor: Chicago White Sox
Value: Out of the Park

S5 Muscle Madness #1
Three-month membership at any Bally Total Fitness club. Feel the energy and good health that comes with a commitment to a fitness program. Membership is non-renewable, non-transferable, available to new members 18 years+, must be redeemed at one club of your choice by June 30, 2007; membership begins at time of redemption. Clubs are located plentifully throughout Chicagoland: throughout the city and in Morton Grove, Naperville, Deerfield, Oak Lawn, Skokie, Vernon Hills, and more.
Donor: Bally Total Fitness Corporation
Value: $200

S6 Muscle Madness #2
One-year membership at any Bally Total Fitness club. Feel the energy and good health that comes with a commitment to a fitness program. Membership is non-renewable, non-transferable, available to new members 18 years+, must be redeemed at one club of your choice by June 30, 2007; membership begins at time of redemption. Clubs are located plentifully throughout Chicagoland: throughout the city and in Morton Grove, Naperville, Deerfield, Oak Lawn, Skokie, Vernon Hills, and more.
Donor: Bally Total Fitness Corporation
Value: $500

S7 Tri This
This package will get you triathlon ready in no time. Includes a 12-week group training program for an experienced triathlete, a newbie or anything in between, two days per week during 2007 and a program for in between sessions. They’ll get you ready for race day with your own training diary, a performance shirt, tri shorts and swim cap.
Donor: Together we Tri
Value: $550

S8 Personal Fitness Package and Massage
Reach your fitness goals with a three month membership to the state of the art Energy Training Center located at Chicago and Halsted. Package also includes one fitness evaluation session and one personal training session (all must be used by one person.) Let the Energy Training Center design a workout program to help you reach your goals. And what about those sore quads? After your workout, treat yourself to a relaxing massage at Urban Oasis, the only Chicagoland spa that specializes exclusively in massage therapy. Good at either 12 W. Maple or 939 W. North,
Mon-Fri. Massage and membership offers expire September 26, 2007.
Donor: Energy Training Center; Urban Oasis
Value: $365

S9 Exercise Rx
Your prescription for fitness. This package includes two fitness training sessions at this Deerfield facility. Package includes a sleek ultramodern bathroom scale.
Donor: Exercise Rx; M. Block and Sons, Inc.
Value: $270

S10 BMX Helmet and Goggles #1
Protect yourself or a loved one with this high quality BMX bike helmet and goggle set.
Donor: Retail Tech Partners
Value: $125

S11 BMX Helmet and Goggles #2
Protect yourself or a loved one with this high quality BMX bike helmet and goggle set.
Donor: Retail Tech Partners
Value: $125

S12 Chicago Fire
Surprise your budding Beckham with this soccer ball signed by Chicago’s hometown professional soccer team, the Chicago Fire.
Donor: Chicago Fire Soccer
Value: Priceless

S13 Chicago Sky Tickets
Wear these t-shirts proudly as you and a friend cheer on Chicago’s newest professional Women’s NBA team, the Chicago Sky, during their 2007 season at the UIC Pavillion.
Donor: Chicago Sky
Value: $120

Travel

T1 Luxury Downtown Weekend
Why stay in a hotel when you can spread out for a two night stay in a luxury downtown highrise condo at 100 E. Huron, 34th floor? Breathtaking views of the lake and the Magnificent Mile. Two bedrooms, two baths (one bedroom with king; one bedroom with two twins.) Building amenities include indoor pool and health club. Mutually agreeable date to be arranged with owner. Includes two $50 certificates for dining at Shaw’s Crabhouse, just a couple of blocks away. Expires December 31, 2007.
Donor: Richard Lumpkin; Elizabeth Celio; Shaw’s Crab House
Value: $700

T2 Springfield Weekend
Lincoln slept here…well, across the street. Spend Friday and Saturday nights in a charming 1897 Victorian Bed and Breakfast in Springfield, Illinois overlooking the Lincoln Home National Historic Site and walking distance from the brand new Abraham Lincoln Presidential Museum. Double Occupancy. Wine and cheese upon arrival and complimentary wine, water, and soda in your room. Leave your car behind and travel in comfort via Amtrak. B & B will provide transportation to/from the train station. Train vouchers expire January 1, 2008. Some train blackout dates apply.
Donors: The Henry Mischler House Bed and Breakfast; National Railroad Passenger Corporation (Amtrak)
Value: $380

T3 Bed & Breakfast in Washington, Illinois
Enjoy a quaint getaway at The Cornerstone Inn Bed and Breakfast in beautiful Washington, Illinois, 12 miles from Peoria. One night stay in the ‘double whirlpool room’. Ooh-la-la.
Donor: Lois Kellogg for The Cornerstone Inn Bed and Breakfast
Value: $120

Home

H1 Green Interior Design
An enlightening one hour consultation with an interior designer whose expertise is green/environmentally friendly home décor. Expires September 30, 2007.
Donor: New Leaf Design
Value: $155

H2 Zzzzzz Best Sleeping Bean
As you sleep, this sleeping ‘bean’ effortlessly aligns your spine, reduces pain and muscle stress, and encourages healthy sleep positions. Soft and huggable, the cylindrical Bean is made from 100% cotton and filled with premium recycled poly-fiber, Organic kapok fiber, white goose feather, that molds to support your body.
Donor: Bean Products
Value: $100

H3 Interior Design Consultation
Two hours of home design consultation regarding a project of any kind by a seasoned architect will help you get your project off to the right start.
Expires September 30, 2007.
Donor: Cynthia Winter Architect, LLC
Value: $500

H4 Chicago Board of Trade Memorabilia
These make wonderful items for your home or for special gifts. A crystal likeness of the world famous Chicago Board of Trade building, commemorative Waterman pens, and a Pendulum Clock depicting the façade of the CBOT.
Donor: Chicago Board of Trade
Value: $300

H5 Asian garden fixture
Bring grace and tranquility to your home or garden with this stunning authentic Chinese Scholar’s Rock.
Donor: Pagoda Red
Value: $258

H6 Pet Portrait
Have your beloved pet photographed by the ‘Doctor Doolittle of Photographers’ (Chicago Tribune). David Sutton, named ‘Best Pet Photographer in America’ by Forbes FYI, will conduct a private photo session with you, your children, your pet, or any combination thereof and produce a beautiful black and white signed 11”x11” exhibition print ready to frame. May order additional photographs from sitting. Valid for weekday sitting at Sutton Studios in Evanston through March 2007. Includes a certificate for framing.
Donor: Sutton Studios
Value: $725

H7 Dog Training
Turn your krazy Kujo into a loving Lassie. This package includes a group class in one of five locations run by AnimalSense and one private in home training session plus books, a leash, a collar, treats and more.
Donor: AnimalSense
Value $500

H8 Hand knit Scarf
There’s no denying it – winter is around the corner. Stay warm and fashionable in this hand knit 100% wool scarf.
Donor: Cheryl Kaplan
Value: $50

H9 Eco Dry Cleaning
This Wilmette dry cleaner will provide you with six months of dry cleaning services ($15/month.) Wilmette’s only perc-free dry cleaner uses the most advanced technology available. Completely odorless and non-toxic, this method is gentler and safer for your clothes and the earth.
Donor: Gold Medal Cleaners
Value: $90

Culture

C1 ¿Se Habla Español?
This package provides you with four one-hour private Spanish lessons in your home, office, or a favorite coffee shop within city of Chicago. ¡Maravilloso! Expires September 30, 2007.
Donor: Workforce Language Services
Value: $300

C2 Springfield Political Internship
Spend an exciting day in Springfield accompanying political strategist Mark Bishop, Deputy Director of Healthy Schools Campaign. Learn how the legislative process works from an experienced lobbyist. Get an insider's tour of the capitol building and participate in the lobbying process. Have lunch with an interesting political personality (to be determined.) Appropriate for 1-2 students aged 14-18. Winner to provide own transportation to/from Springfield (Amtrak provides service; pick-up/drop-off at station can be arranged if necessary). Internship to take place during the 2007 legislative session on a mutually agreed upon date.
Donor: Mark Bishop
Value: $200

C3 Springfield Page for a Day
Your 10+ year old budding politician will spend the day with Illinois State Senator Jeff Schoenberg. Tour the Capitol and watch new laws being made. Meet state legislators on the floor of the Illinois Senate. Lunch with the Senator. Requires own transportation to Springfield. One parent/guardian required for drop off and pick up. Must be used during the 2007 legislative session on a mutually agreed upon date.
Donor: Jeff Schoenberg
Value: Priceless

C4 Surf and Turf ~ Shedd Aquarium and Lincoln Park Zoo
This package will keep your family busy all year. Head over to the Shedd Aquarium and go to the front of the line with your four VIP immediate entry tickets, good through September 2007. When you’ve had your fill of the beluga whales, head over to the Lincoln Park Zoo for more fun. Includes a one year Zoologist level membership to be redeemed by July 18, 2007; membership begins at time of redemption.
Donors: John G. Shedd Aquarium; Lincoln Park Zoo
Value: $190

C5: Remy Bumppo Theatre Company
Two tickets to see The Best Man, by Gore Vidal, a play about politics and power. For the past decade, Remy Bumppo Theatre Company’s passion for the power of great theatrical language has enriched Chicago’s world-class theatre scene. Play runs September 20 - November 5, 2007.
Donor: Remy Bumppo Theatre Company
Value: $70