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Ponte Vedra Recorder · November 12, 2015
Photos provided by Lori Anderson
Mission House case managers Carmen Whisler and Jane McIntosh checked in Sponsors at the
event’s VIP area.
From left to right are Wendy Kennedy (representing sponsor company Morgan Stanley-Baggs,
Dixon and Powell), with Mission House board member Karen Hughes, Karen Perry, and Mission
House Board Vice President Tom Perry.
Community joins to support Mission House at annual fundraiser
By Kelly H. McDermott
The Recorder
Mission House hosted its signature
annual fundraising event, Compassion
By the Sea, last month at the Plantation
Beach House at Ponte Vedra. More than
300 people attended the event, which
has grown since its inception. The
event raised $50,000 for Mission House
this year according to Executive Director Lori Anderson.
This year, Compassion By the Sea included live music by Could 9, a silent
auction, raffle and a wine pull. Guests
were offered wine, beer, a fish taco bar,
pulled pork sliders, skewered chicken
and the option to make s’mores for dessert over an open fire.
Mission House is a day facility in Jacksonville Beach that helps the homeless
survive and return to productive, independent lives. The organization is the
primary source for services to homeless
adults in the Jacksonville Beaches area
and provides job training, counseling
and health care services. Compassion
By the Sea is the organization’s largest
annual fundraiser.
The organization recently began a
large-scale remodeling project at its
original site in order to expand the services that it offers. The new facility will
provide a larger and more comfortable
clinic space. To learn more about Mission House, visit www.missionhousejax.org.
The silent auction offered a huge variety of
items, including trips to Napa and Arizona.
Mission House Fundraiser Chair Laurie Bush
with Robert La Pointe
The silent auction was hosted inside with 86 items ranging from a guitar signed by every band
member of the Rolling stones, to a house in the Bahamas and a basket full of candles.
Sponsor Joni
Zwick (right) from
Coldwell Banker
with checks out
the series of baskets at the silent
auction with
another event
attendee.