|
Published Sunday, January 30,
2005, in the San Jose Mercury News
Wish Book funds still being accepted
By HOLLY HAYES / Mercury News
For 22 years, thousands of people in the Bay Area have helped neighbors in their communities through the Wish Book, a seasonal fundraising drive of the San Jose Mercury News.
Wish Book readers are invited to earmark their gifts to particular stories or causes, or make general contributions. Donations of any size continue to be welcome and are tax-deductible.
This year's Wish Book stories appeared in the newspaper from Nov. 21 to Dec. 24. Visit www.mercurynews.info/wishbook if you'd like to read them online.
Some donors dedicate their gifts in honor or memory of loved ones. Others give anonymously. Following is a partial list of donors (the final list is to appear next Sunday):
Abrazos & Books, in memory of Jeanne Honda and Jim McEntee; Mr. and Mrs. Ihab Abu-Hakima; Marcia Allison, in honor of the Allison family and Dink Martin; Cynthia Alvarez; Marianne Ambrosini; Kristen Andrews; Suzanne Balistreri; Joanna Bartlett, in honor of her sister; Diane Baumert; George and Annie Beers; Stella Bergan; Bergeson, LLP (Donald Gagliardi, Jan Silva, Robert Martineau, Terre Passeau and David Johnson); Rafael Betancourt; LeAnn Bjelle, in honor of the Schmidt family Christmas; Sandra Bregar, in honor of Adam Bregar; Mr. and Mrs. Trevor Bright; John Briolat; Richard Bush; Diana Bustamante, in honor of the Bustamante kids;
Danny Camacho; Patricia and Matt Camacho-Cano; Ralph Cella; the Ceppos family; Jai-Jen Chang, in honor of Tze-Wei Lin; Eugene Cheng and Maribeth Colloton; David Chow; Mrs. and Mrs. Jimmy Chua, in honor of Dora Chua; Dennis Cima; Deb Colden and Gary Marker, in honor of their clients; Maribeth Colloton, in honor of the Bassindale children; Greg and Estelle Condon; Liz Coover, in honor of Vanessa Coover; Lois Cornell; Kim Cosmas; John Creel; Mr. and Mrs. Francis Crimi;
Donette Dake, in honor of Erin-Leigh Henderson; Pam Davis;, in honor of Corey and Kacey Davis; David and Celeste Deggeller; Den 8 Cub Scouts, Pack 566; Joyce and Joe Denzel; Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Denzel, in memory of Linda Denzel Knight and Amy Jansen; Noel Dietz; Sally Doelling; Pamela Dougherty; Mr. and Mrs. John Dutra, in honor of the Dutra family; William Edge; Suzanne EINaggar, in honor of the EINaggar-Burrows family;
Sue Foran, in honor of Tamara, Anna, Cathy and John Schroeder; Mark Figini; Elizabeth Finkler, in honor of Stewart and Marian Finkler; Thomas Fitzgerald, in honor of Mary Lou Fitzgerald; Kim Flickner, in honor of the Flickner family; William Forsythe; Myles Fukuda, in honor of Niki Nakada; Tracey Gatheral; Kelly Gayer; Sheeva Ghassemi, in honor of Ghassemi family; Tim Giddings; Pam Giffin-Brees, in honor of Kaitlyn and Tyler Brees; Meredith Gill; Linda Gonzales; Leslie Guinnane and Melina Mennecke;
Sarah Halper; Pamela Hammill; Debra Hannon; Rita Haskin; Mr. and Mrs. Richard Hauser; Kyczy Hawk; Chuck and Julie Hayden; Mark and Cheryl Hayden; Sally Hayse; Mr. and Mrs. Michael Healy, in honor of the Healy family; the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation; Mark and Linda Higgins, in honor of the Higgins family; Andy Ho, in honor of the Ho, Rosales and Walker families; Laurel Holman, in honor of Nathan McCormick; Mr. and Mrs. Reed Hornberger; Cynthia Imboden; Nahal Iravani-Sani; Linda Ishiguro;
Lori Jedda, in honor of Max Jedda; Sara and Ricardo Jenez; Carol Jensen; Cassandra Kamuchey; Judy Keever; Kathy Kister; Ralph and Heather Kiuttu; Katherine Langdon; Virginia Langmuir; Jason Lay; Kim Le, in honor of Q2 Tran; Justin and Laura Lee; Karen Lee; Ike Leong; Ray Leung; Andrew Levine; Randy Levinson, in honor of Noah and Elijah Levinson; Kyungjun Li, in honor of Andrea Li; Larry Liden; Ann Lindahl, in honor of Erik Lindahl; Greg Long; Hui Chi Loo; Mr. and Mrs. Heraclio Lopez; Hilary Lujack;
Jeffrey Maenaga; John Martin; Roger and Louise Mateo; Jill Matthews, in memory of Alta Gladys Mayfield; Randall Meyer and Sabrina Eldredge; Molly McCall; Lisa Lisa McCann, in honor of the McCann family; Marc and Kristi McGee; Karen Mierly, in honor of Ezekial Mierly; Mr. and Mrs. Robert Miller; Suzanne Miller; Rebecca Moon; Mr. and Mrs. John Moore; MORE Physical Therapy; Angela Morello; Lisa Moriarty, in honor of the Moriarty family; Stephanie Morris, in honor of Jim and Carol Mangels; John Mukhopadhyay; Dean, Susan, Alex and Brad Munro; Mary Murphy, in honor of the Stevens/Murphy family;
Surendra Narayan; Helen Nastasia; Hoang and Jessica Nguyen; Mr. and Mrs. Long Nguyen; Peter Nguyen; Jill Olson; Mr. and Mrs. Mickey Ording; Alvaro Orozco; the Page family; Gerald and Diana Parker; Amy Pearl; Sarah Perry; Judith and Pedro Pescador; the Piethe family, in honor of dad's birthday; Mr. and Mrs. Fernando Placer; Karen Porter; Nitin Rao; Jane Ratchye, in honor of Havens Ratchye; Mr. and Mrs. John Reese; Joe and Katy Ripp; Felix and Loretta Rosengarten; Patricia Ross, in honor of Merle I. Smith; Carlos Rueda; Mark Ruffing;
Jill Sacca; Bill and Lorna Sadusk; Kataneh Sarvian; Bruce Sarsfield, in honor of Jessica and Natalie Sarsfield; Becky Schmitt; Gwen Simas and Jack Lindsay; Lisa Sloan, in memory of Mark Cirbus; Mr. and Mrs. Grover Smith, in honor of Mia and Kennie Sredanovich; Melissa Smith, in honor of the Smith brothers E, M and A; Pamela Smith; Michael, Mary, Ally and Em Smithson, in honor of Gene and Dette Diener and Gloria Smithson; Cynthia Stoddard; Paul Strauss; Mr. and Mrs. Robert Suddeth; Larry Sugimoto; Mr. and Mrs. Dwight Sur, in honor of Monica and Brad Nicholl;
Pam Takacs; Dayne Taylor; Holly Taylor, in honor of the Arcelo family; Pradeep Thayamballi; Patricia Thomas; Trang To; Yuko Toda; Ve Tran; Travis Tran; James Trieu, in honor of Dieu Hanh Huynh; Em Tsai and Dave Gampell; Jessika Tsuchida;
Irma Valencia, in honor of Esteban and Emilio Valencia; Barbara Vander Putten; Toni Vanwinkle, in honor of the Vanwinkle family; Raghunath Vutukuru; Bill Wagner; Fiona Walsh, in honor of Stephane and Fiona; Tracy Weatherby, in honor of the Dembner family; Marian Weldon; Jerome White; Olympia Williams; Mr. and Mrs. Robin Williams; Mark Wojciechowski, in honor of Casey Wojciechowski; Maggie Wollen-Olson; Adrienne Wong, in honor of Eva Gock and Jerome Flowers; Harry Wright; Taed Wynnell; Thomas Yan; Jan York.
Here's how you can help fulfill a wish:
ONLINE:
When you read the Wish Book stories, links to donate are included,
so that you can earmark your donations through our secure server.
BY
MAIL :
Click here to download*
a Holiday Book donation form. Simply fill it out, attach your check
or credit card information and mail it to the Mercury News, c/o
Wish Book Fund, 750 Ridder Park Drive, San Jose, CA 95190
* To view and print this
form, you will need Acrobat Reader. Free Acrobat downloads at www.adobe.com/acrobat.
QUESTIONS
ABOUT WISH BOOK?
Contact Holly Hayes, Wish Book coordinator at (408) 920-5374 or email wishbook@mercurynews.com.
|
Wish
Book Home
