Very special thanks go to the many businesses who donated to the recent successful Italian Dinner fundraiser for the River of Time Museum. What a wonderful and generous community we live in!

Thank you to AFC Physical Medicine, All American Sports Grill, Arizona Home Watch & Cleaning, Arizona Trails Travel, Bashas’, Chocofin Chocolatier, Crystal Blues, Desert Belle Cruis-es, Desert Canyon Golf Club, Desert Stages Thea-ter, Dolly Steamboat, Ea-gle Mountain Golf Club, Fireside Grill, Fontana Hair, Fort McDowell Ad-ventures, Fountain Hills Theater, The Fountain Hills Times, Grecian Beauty Salon, Heritage Cross Apparel, Hilton Garden Inn in CA, Impe-rial Ballroom, State Sena-tor John Kavanagh, Law-rence Dunham Vineyards, Liberty Tire & Auto Cen-ter, Liberty Wildlife, and Little Caesars Pizza.

Donations also were re-ceived from Mary Kay Cosmetics, O’Hair Inter-national, OK Chorale Group, Paul’s Ace Hard-ware, Phil’s Filling Sta-tion (Phil’s donated 300 meals for the event!), Phoenix Connection, Pier One, Pink Tree Bakery, PRP Wine, R&S Mattress, Rio Verde Golf Club, Safeway, Sami Fine Jew-elry, Bonnie Schweih’s Pet Portraits, Senior Life Insurance Solutions, Shear Indulgence, Sheriff Joe Arpaio, Sofrita, Southwest Wildlife Con-servation Center, Spike’s Treats, Starbucks, Sun-Ridge Canyon Golf Club, Tap House, Target, Tru-Fit Studios, Vidanta Re-sorts, We-Ko-Pa Resort and Golf Club and Wen-dy’s.

The Arizona Museum of Natural History Casa Grande Museum, Cave Creek Museum, Chil-dren’s Museum of Phoe-nix, Pueblo Grande Mu-seum, Rim Country & Zane Grey Museum, Ros-son House Museum and Superstition Mountain Museum donated admis-sion passes.

I wish I could also thank all the individuals for their donations – but there are way too many to enumerate here. Thank you to all and see you all next year.