Pot Luck a Big Success!

Over 90 people ate, sang, schmoozed, and had a good time at our annual Pot Luck Party.

We listened to candidate Brian Benjamin (nominated by the Democratic Party to replace Bill Perkins who left the State Senate to become a City Council member) and to our own City Council Member Mark Levine.  Then we ate some more!

The primary credit goes to our Pot Luck Planners; Maxine Soares, Lydia Pitsirilos, Joan Browne, and Debbie Gonzalez. 

And THANKS to the many people who contributed their work and food and time:

SET UP

Lydia Pitsirilos, Maxine Soares, Debbie Gonzalez, Letty Orellano, Claude Saucier, and Vernon Smith, did the set-up and decorations, with a lovely motif of hanging spirals of paper (shiny and not).  

GREETERS: 

Joan Browne,Helen Merber, and Maria Acevedo greeted guests all evening and wrote down the dish those who signed in brought.    The dishes were put out by Tish Howard with help from Melanie Eversley.

WHAT PEOPLE BROUGHT  (If you didn't sign in, your dish isn't here - so let me know!)

Maria Acevedo: Bruschetta

Stephanie and John Arenas: Cookies

Laurie Barton:  Vegetable and fruit platter, cake

Chariss Boisseau & Carlos: Mac& cheese, seltzer, and music!

deAndrade:  Empanadas

Dixon, Norma: Yellow rice with peas and eggs; yellow rice with mixed vegetables

Gabrielle Everett: Coleslaw with hot dogs

Melanie Eversley: Chicken pasta salad

Paul Fisher:  Cake

Sheila Friedling: Tossed salad

Debbie Gonzalez - Roasted vegetables

Linda Greenman: Rugelach

Aaron Heisler & Alexandra Martin: Cookies,rugelach

Jill  Hodge: Cookies

Tish Howard: Roasted chicken with garlic and peppers

Florence Jackson & Jerry Pirog: Korean chicken legs; black bean & corn salad

Pat Jordan: Haricots verts

Laura Koulish: Spinach lasagna

Mona and Jean Joseph Leon: Pasta with garden vegetables

Collean Mallon: Greek pasta salad

Ena Malone: Chocolate cherry tiara cake

Kathie Murray: Turkey chili

Adelaida Navarro: Arroz con gandules

Brenda Marshall: Red Velvet Cake

Marlene Melton: Summer punch (and one other punch recipe!)

Roie and Prudence Oppreman: Cakes

Letty Orellano: Garlic stringbeans

Mildred Palermo: Juice

Lydia Pitsirilos - Roast chicken, potato salad

Namita Prasad:  Samosas

Sekhar Ramakrishnan:  Spicy broccoli

Bones Rodriguez: Coconut, walnut, oatmeal raisin cookies

Virginia Santiago: Cookies and punch

Maxine Soares: Jerk chicken

Janie Stewart: Collard greens

Cary Webb: Home-made parker rolls, garlic knots

Beatriz Zapata: Fresh cheese with peppers appetizer

CLEAN UP CREW

Steve Koulish, Laura Koulish, Lydia Pitsirilos, Claude Saucier, Vernon Smith, Maxine Soares

Special thanks to Chariss Boisseau for providing the music, to building staff Mike Medina, Lenny Moreno, and Modesto ("Ito") Santiago for their pre-party clean-up and to Barbara Geller for arranging the flowers outside.   Thanks to Vernon Smith who found, cleaned, and prepared the table and chairs outside and to Claude Saucier and Vernon Smith prepared the children's rug and chairs.