AWARE Affair CELEBRATE THE MOMENTS Blooms of Hope Friends and Supporters Shopped at Highland Park Village’s Alice and Olivia, Madison and Theory Sharing a Progressive Shopping Experience
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portion of all proceeds benefited AWARE Affair
AWARE – Fighting Alzheimer’s Disease Since 1989
Featured photo: Thad Smith; Sarah B. Smith and Ginny Bond-Fein, AWARE Affair co-chairs; Mark Fein
AWARE Affair CELEBRATE THE MOMENTS Blooms of Hope friends and supporters joined together at Highland Park Village as Alice and Olivia, Madison and Theory welcomed them in an after-hours progressive shopping experience.
Beginning at Madison, AWARE Affair chairs Ginny Bond Fein and Sarah B. Smith, along with AWARE president, Sharon Ballew, sipped champagne, delighted in Sprinkles Cupcakes and shopped in this beautiful store filled with gorgeous gifts, unique finds and luxurious home accessories.
Sarah B. Smith, AWARE Affair co-chair; Becca White, Manager of Madison; Ginny Bond-Fein, AWARE Affair co-chair.
Champagne flowed at the next stop at Theory, where many high style outfits and pairs of shoes were snapped up. The stunning crowd ended their buying sojourn at the fabulous Alice and Olivia by Stacey Bendet boutique, where Ray Hickingbotham from ROXOR Artisan Gin poured ROXOR’s Blooming Gin & Tonic topped with a hisbiscus bloom and more goodies were served.
Janet and Jack Broyles at Madison 
Stacey Angel at Theory
Sharon welcomed the crowd and thanked everyone for joining in the party and showing their support of the entire shopping experience and AWARE Affair. She also thanked the store managers for donating a portion of the proceeds of sales that evening back to AWARE.
From Theory: Danielle Sammarco, Marysa Davisson
Ginny and Sarah thanked sponsors, chatted with friends, and announced honorees Stacey Jones Angel as the Amy Osler Spirit of Education Leadership Award honoree and Honoring in Love: Rebecca “Beauty” Bearden from her family: David M. Bearden, Sr., David M. Bearden, Jr., Sarah Bearden Smith and Gabriel English Bearden, #beautyinalzheimers. Honorary Chairs are Ellen Terry with her daughter Amy Terry Kriegel and son, Todd Terry. Honorary Celebrity Chair is Harry Benson, internationally renowned photojournalist. Honorary Chairs Emeritus are Kim and David McDavid, Jr.
Sharon Ballew, President, AWARE;
Ellen Smith, Manager, Alice + Olivia
Sarah also signed copies of her new book, Broken Beauty – Piecing Together Lives Shattered by Early-Onset Alzheimer’s, a heartfelt memoir which takes the reader on her and her family’s journey through her mother’s early onset Alzheimer’s. The sole focus of the book is not on death, but on a family that has taken a firm hold of life and celebrates victory over tragedy. It is #1 new release in Christian Faith and Aging Parents and Eldercare and Amazon bestseller in Dementia and Alzheimer’s disease.
Ray Hickingbotham, ROXOR Artisan Gin
Sprinkles
Lounge 31 set an especially luxe scene upstairs as everyone joined in celebrating Sarah’s birthday with Sprinkles Cupcakes and champagne. A perfect ending to a perfect evening!
For more information about AWARE Affair and AWARE please visit the website http://www.awaredallas.org The Dallas Foundation, a 501(c)(3) publicly supported charity, is the fiscal sponsor of AWARE.
Beneficiaries/Grant Recipients:
- Texas Winds Musical Outreach: Support for the Concerts for Seniors program, which provides two
concerts by professional musicians in each of 95 nursing homes and adult day
care facilities serving individuals with Alzheimer’s disease and related
dementias as well as the economically disadvantaged.
- Juliette Fowler Communities: Support for training, implementation, and certification of the
“I’m Still Here” program, a national model that provides a
person-centered approach to caring for persons with Alzheimer’s through social
engagement, new learning experiences, community service, and volunteerism. The program ensures that unique skills and
interests are incorporated into each patient’s day so that experiences are
fulfilling.
- C. C. Young: Funds to support a board-certified music therapist who will engage
with the Memory Care residents for 30 minutes to one hour a day, every day,
seven days a week, while becoming familiar with each resident and selecting
music on an individual basis according to their preferences.
- Dallas Museum of Art: Support for teaching honorariums, supplies, and staffing for
Meaningful Moments, a program designed to provide participants with Alzheimer’s
disease and related dementias and their families or caregivers with ways to
engage in art providing a continuing cultural opportunity to everyone
regardless of their ability.
- The Senior Source: Support for the Senior Companions
program matching trained volunteers with individuals with Alzheimer’s disease
and related dementias and their families needing assistance with meals,
errands, and light housekeeping providing caregivers with respite and/or time
to work outside the home.
- Center for Brain Health: Support for the second year of Studying Sleep
Architecture in Early Stage Alzheimer’s Disease to better understand how sleep
impacts cognitive health in aging individuals and what role it may play in
cognitive impairment. Results from this
three year study could motivate the formulation of better, more multifunctional
interventions to slow or halt the progression of cognitive decline in Alzheimer’s
disease.
- Dallas Chapter of the Alzheimer’s
Association:
Funds to support the hire of the Dallas Chapter’s Diversity and
Inclusion Coordinator. This individual
will develop a Hispanic Outreach manual and program called “Get the Facts”
directly dedicated to meeting the needs of the underserved and often
mono-lingual Dallas Hispanic community.
The program will use existing partnerships with Telemundo and Univision
television stations to help raise awareness and drive attendance to education and
support group opportunities.
- Jewish Family Service: Support for the salary of a
three-quarter-time licensed Clinical Social Worker to provide in-home mental
health counseling, care management, and daily living support services to 50
older adults with Alzheimer’s disease and 20 family members and caregivers
allowing patients to remain independent and living in their own home.
- Center for Vital Longevity: Support for the salary of Chris Foster, Ph.D, currently working
under Dr. Karen Rodrigue, enabling him to continue the second year of a
three-year study of biomarker-based risk factors for healthy aging from data
collected by the lab from a sample of 200 adults ranging in age from 20-94
years old who are recruited from the Dallas community.
- Baylor Healthcare System: Salary support for the Baylor AT&T Memory Center to provide a trained care and support specialist onsite at the Baylor AT&T Memory Center. By placing this valuable service at the point of care, patients and their families in early diagnosis can receive disease education, caregiver skill training and support groups, elder law and financial planning, and a 24/7 helpline allowing physicians to focus on the medical issues surrounding the disease.
The Myrna D. Schlegel AWARE Scholarship Fund Recipients: Emilia Jasper, who is pursuing her Graduate Master
Degree in Family Health Nursing at TWU and Genova
Segura, who is working toward her Bachelor of Science in Nursing at TWU.
Media Sponsors: PaperCity, The Park Cities News/The Waters Family, My Sweet Charity, Downtown Business News.
AWARE Founders: Ruth Sharp Altshuler*, Cyndy Hudgins, Nancy Nelson, Evelyn Ponder, Billie Leigh Rippey, Anita Sampels. * Deceased.
About AWARE: The Dallas Foundation, a 501(c)(3) publicly supported charity, is the fiscal sponsor of AWARE. In partnership with the Foundation, AWARE conducts an annual grant application review process resulting in the selection of the most exemplary nonprofit organizations working on the front lines in the fight against Alzheimer’s disease in Dallas and the North Texas region. AWARE provides funding and support to these outstanding groups that offer services, programs, education, and resources to those suffering from Alzheimer’s disease, their families and caregivers, and to organizations doing valuable research to find a prevention and cure. Since its founding in 1989, AWARE has donated over $13.5 million towards this cause.
Photos by Dana Driensky.
(Sharon Adams, Adams Communications Public Relations, is honored to represent AWARE.)
