Rochester, MI - Fantastic food, fabulous cars and fine wine will be served up at the eleventh annual
Garden Party, a fundraising event to provide professional trade scholarships to disadvantaged
young adults. The event will be held on Sunday, June 9, 2019, from 1:00 PM to 4:00
PM on the beautiful grounds of Meadow Brook Hall in Rochester, Michigan.
The Garden Party will feature fare from 30 of Michigan’s best restaurants including Big Rock Chophouse, Detroit Athletic Club, Grey Ghost, Roberts Restaurant Group, among others. New additions to this year’s event include Antihero, Hazel, Ravines & Downtown, Lady of the House, and Shewolf, to name a few. The exquisite cuisine offered during the affair will be paired with 100 of the finest wines provided by Great Lakes Wine & Spirits, classic car display and live entertainment by Detroit’s own award-winning vocalist, Tosha Owens.
“The Garden Party is pleasant, if not pleasing. It is one of the few charities that our industry, Hospitality, embraces…” said Sydney L. Ross, co-founder of The Garden Party Foundation and co-owner of Great Lakes Wine and Spirits, based in Highland Park. “We are giving the children and later young adults the opportunity to learn skills that WILL allow them to be self-sufficient and prosper – vocational training.”
Tickets for The Garden Party are $150 per person. Attire is traditional Garden Party chic. The hosts request that ladies wear hats. Guests must be 18 to attend. Tickets can be purchased by visiting www.thegardenpartymichigan.org.
2019 Sponsors include: Atlas Oil Company (along with Atlas Cares and Sam & Nada Simon Foundation), Barton Malow Company, Celani Family Vineyards, Charity Motors, Crain’s Detroit Business, Dickinson Wright PLLC, dbusiness, HOUR Detroit, Huntington Bank, JP Morgan Chase, Kelly Services, MP Tool & Engineering, News/Talk 760 WJR, Peter Basso Associates, Plum Market, Ryder, The Suburban Collection, The Tyranski & Totonchio Group – Merrill Lynch, TMP Architecture, and UHY Advisors, Inc.
Along with The Garden Party Southeast Michigan, the fourth annual Garden Party Northern Michigan will be held on September 7, 2019 from 3PM – 6PM in The Harris Gardens on North Central Michigan College’s campus in Petoskey, MI.
About Oakland Community College Professional and Skilled Trades
Oakland Community College’s mission is built on meeting community need. Essentially,
what talent does Southeast Michigan need to maintain a strong economy and a great
quality of life? How do we meet that need with today’s students? At OCC, this translates
into the rebirth of professional and skilled trades. According to the state’s employment
website, Talent Connect, there are more than 8,300 professional trades job openings
across all industries in Michigan, and more than 6,200 expected to be available each
year through 2022.
Today, careers in the professional trades offer high demand, highly skilled, well-paying
jobs. OCC’s commitment to filling this talent gap means working with businesses, agencies
and our expert faculty to meet the need for skilled, career-ready employees in Advanced
Automobile Servicing, Criminal Justice, Culinary Arts, EMS, Fire Fighter Technology,
Machine Tool Technology, Robotics and Welding,
About The Garden Party Foundation
The Garden Party Foundation was founded by The Ross Family and The Cooper Family. The purpose of The Garden Party is to create a pleasant Sunday afternoon that is pleasing to the eye, the palate, and for its charitable aspect – pleasing to the soul. The Garden Party Foundation’s mission is to provide trade school scholarships to underprivileged young adults. TGPF believes that the purpose of education is to teach students skills allowing them the opportunity to create their own self-sustainable life, which goes hand in hand with TGPF’s intention…to help one student at a time reach their dreams.
For more information visit www.thegardenpartymichigan.org or call 248-921-4684.