Friday, March 18, 2011

Fete keeps library going

Our Moveable Feast succeeds from generosity of donors

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By SABINA DANA PLASSE
Express Staff Writer

The Community Library’s annual benefit, Our Moveable Feast, had many volunteers and donations helping to create a successful event. Sun Valley Co. provided dessert in the regional history library with the assistance of Sun Valley Resort Banquet Manager Natalia Tekeila, joined here by Sun Valley Resort General Manager Tim Silva. Photo by Willy Cook

Exotic cocktails, excellent wines, gourmet delicacies, chocolate truffles and lots of chatter are not the norm on a Sunday evening at The Community Library in Ketchum, but for the Our Moveable Feast benefit, they were. The celebratory evening to benefit the library's operations budget was made possible by donations from valley restaurants and caterers, including Cristina's, Globus, Sun Valley Co., Despo's, Ciro, Michel's Christiania, Perry's, The Pioneer Saloon, the Sawtooth Club, Sego, Judith McQueen Entertaining, Atkinsons' Market and Da Vinci's.

"We had the most amazing positive feedback," said library Executive Director Colleen Daly. "Someone said to me it was the best party of the year."

Daly said a number of people commented that they came to the event because they simply wanted to have a good time. But many ended up donating to the cause.

Newcomers who donated to the benefit included the Cornerstone Bar & Grill, which served the evening's signature cocktail, "Papa Doble," in honor of writer Ernest Hemingway.

"The Cornerstone Bar & Grill stepped up," said Colleen Crain, the library's director of development. "Sayvour, also a newcomer to the event, served delicious homemade potato chips. But Cristina's perennial curried lamb stew was a huge hit."

Leslie Silva, who organized the dessert room with Sun Valley Co., said the room was created to make people happy, which it did with copious amounts of truffles, fresh fruit flambé, chocolate cakes and cupcakes.

Crain said there were 315 attendees, a few more than last year, and the auction raised more than $50,000, 80 percent more than last year's event.

"We had better auction items with unique dinners that cannot be bought anywhere," Crain said. "For the seventh year, we wanted to emphasize elegance and used lots of fabrics and gold."

Crain said the generosity of the restaurateurs who support the Our Moveable Feast benefit put a large amount of time and energy into the event, spending thousands of dollars.

"Thank you to all the restaurateurs and donations," Daly said. "The money raised helps with the library's ongoing expenses."

Sabina Dana Plasse: splasse@mtexpress.com

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