After nearly a year of planning, the Eighth Annual Grape Escapes event was held on February 26, 2010. The Holiday Inn City Center was decked out with beautiful lights and decorations provided by National Home Center. Twelve distributors and wineries presented over six hundred different wines and fifteen restaurants and caterers provided hor d'oeuvres for over four hundred attendees. Allyn Donaubauer, event auctioneer and emcee, auctioned exquisite items and wonderful escapes. After the auction, Mr. Cabbage Head and the Screaming Radishes provided rousing live music for our patrons. Countless hours of hard work by the event chairs, David and Lori Cravens, Bost Event Coordinator Shannon Fawcett, and all the volunteers paid off with approximately $70,000 raised to benefit Bost, Inc! Plans for the Ninth Annual Grape Escapes will be underway soon.

On Thursday Feb. 4^th, the children at Bost Hand-in-Hand on 74th St. were honored with a visit from the 5th grade students in Ms.Rebecca Kaelin's class at St. Boniface School as part of a community service project. The St. Boniface students came with lots of St. Valentine books which they read one on one to the children. The 5^th grade students also made St. Valentine's cards and goodie bags for each child at Hand in Hand 74^th Street.   The staff and students really enjoyed and appreciated everything done by this great group of kids!