A World of Gratitude

Yesterday our Annual HOKISA fundraising event at Sushi On a Roll was a success!  We had at least 75 guests who enjoyed sushi by acclaimed chef Jeff Roberto and rocked to the music of Pulse Liberation, a band made up of three Eastlake High students.  You've go to google them on You Tube to listen to them!  I couldn't have done it without my fab five team- Aida, Rebecca, Nicole, Nick and Nylie!  Also, a big high five to the Mar Vista High students who helped throughout the event.

There were more than fifty silent auction items!  Thank you to everyone who contributed.  Here are just a few of the items:

Thanks to Trevor from Ocean Minded by providing all the cool
OM swag and gift certificates!  Also to Reid for the donated subscriptions
to his magazine, Stand Up Paddle Magazine.

Everyone wanted the SUP lessons from the one-and-only
John Ashley from paddlesurf.net.

These came special delivery from Maui!
This was another hot item-- thanks Ina from Boobie Shack.

Dakotah sold four limited edition messenger dolls, each
carrying an original hand-written message from a child in HOKISA.
Everyone wanted the surfer.  Local IB surfer, Chow, was the winner!

We were short only $600 from our annual goal of $5,000.  Not bad.  But it would be great to reach it! So if you would like to make a small donation to help us reach our goal and to read who our fundraiser benefits, please check out my daughter's website www.messageoutsideabottle.weebly.com for more information.