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Food and Drink Lovers Turn Out in Droves for 33rd Annual Mill Valley Wine, Beer and Gourmet Food Tasting

6/26/2014

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Lovers of gourmet food, fantastic wine and finely crafted beer found paradise on a gorgeous Sunday afternoon in downtown Mill Valley on June 22, as the 33rd Annual Mill Valley Market Wine, Beer and Gourmet Food Tasting served up yet another landmark edition of the event’s rich history.

With wine from more than 50 premium wineries, beer from 10 breweries and food from more than 20 gourmet food purveyors – with attendees clamoring for the tasty fare from 10 local restaurants and chefs – the event was a smashing success. Throngs descended on the Depot Plaza on June 22 for one of Mill Valley’s biggest events of the year, with proceeds benefitting Kiddo!, the Mill Valley Schools Community Foundation and the Mill Valley Chamber of Commerce.

“You simply couldn’t ask for a higher quality event for foodies and wine and beer aficionados than this one,” said Paula Reynolds, board chair of the Mill Valley Chamber of Commerce. “And frankly, we’re thrilled at the enthusiasm and the sophistication of our audience. Thanks to everyone who made it happen, particularly our sponsors, and to the hundreds and hundreds who attended despite a weekend packed with great events right in the middle of the World Cup!”

“Our Wine, Beer & Gourmet Food Tasting continues to be a top shelf event,” says Doug Canepa, co-owner of the Mill Valley Market that has curated the event since its inception. “It’s unmatched in the quality of its ingredients – beer, wine, food, restaurants, volunteers, sponsors and local organizations – and it all came together again this to make it a wonderful afternoon.”

"We're very grateful to be a part of such a wonderful community event," says Bill Lampl, executive director of Kiddo!, the Mill Valley Schools Community Foundation. The samplings of savory and sweet foods, wine, and beer were just amazing as well as having great live music. And what a beautiful day!”

The 33rd Annual Mill Valley Wine, Beer and Gourmet Food Tasting was presented by Bank of the West with co-sponsors Pacific Union Real Estate, PG&E, Bradley Real Estate, Marin Modern Real Estate and Mini of Marin. Supporting sponsors include Urban Sitter for the KidZone, Tam Bikes for complimentary bicycle parking and Mill Valley Refuse.

Lindsay Webb, a brand ambassador for MINI of Marin, says that her team had some trepidation at the beginning of the day about being first-time sponsors of an event with a 33-year history. As they position their MINI in the Depot Plaza prior to the event, they wondered, “Like the new kid on their first day of class, will they all like me?” Webb says.

“But as the day was underway, it became clear that we were going to fit in just fine. Like getting picked for dodge ball, we could exhale. We noticed that many of these smiling faces enjoying their sips and eats were not only becoming our friends, but had always been. It was a wonderful mix. Those we knew, those we didn’t, and those we got acquainted with. It was a pleasure to participate in an event for the first time, and feel as though we had been there all along.”

On Sunday, June 22, 2014, Mill Valley held the 33rd Annual Mill Valley Wine, Beer and Gourmet Food Tasting, with proceeds going to the Mill Valley Chamber of Commerce and Kiddo!, the Mill Valley Schools Community Foundation. Hundreds turned out on a gorgeous sunny day to taste some of the best wine, beer and food the Bay Area has to offer.

About the Wine, Beer & Gourmet Food Tasting:
Hosted by Mill Valley Market since 1981, this special North Bay event brings together all the best aspects of California living into one exciting afternoon set against the backdrop of beautiful Mill Valley. The Mill Valley Wine & Gourmet Food Tasting featured Known for a wide selection of hard to find wines, this event is not to be missed by anyone who is a fan of finely crafted beverages and foods.

About the Mill Valley Chamber of Commerce:
Whether it is a large corporation, a retail business, a service provider or an independent professional, the Mill Valley Chamber of Commerce is here to advocate for and provide your business with an array of unique marketing opportunities to reach both residents and visitors. We have a strong relationship with the City of Mill Valley, a dedicated Board of Directors, talented staff and growing membership, and we welcome you.

About Kiddo!:
Kiddo!, the Mill Valley Schools Community Foundation, is a non-profit 501(c3) organization made up of parents, teachers, business people, and active members of the community who raise funds to supplement limited school budgets. Kiddo! funds vital programs and teachers for K-8 schools – including art, music, drama, poetry, dance, P.E., technology, classroom aides and library aides.

About Mill Valley Market:
Since 1929 Mill Valley Market has been owned and operated by the founding Canepa family. We specialize in artisan foods including restaurant-quality prepared foods, local produce, choice meats, poultry and seafood. We will even enhance your meals with the perfect wine. Quality is our passion.

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Mill Valley School District Holds Dedication Ceremony for Edna Maguire Elementary School

6/5/2014

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Fifty-eight years after a new elementary school in Mill Valley opened and was named after Edna Maguire, a woman who’d spent 34 years as a teacher and principal in the Mill Valley School District, the reincarnation of that school was celebrated at a Dedication Ceremony on June 5.
Completed in January, the $35 million reconstruction of Edna Maguire Elementary School opened in January. It was paid for by Measure C, a bond measure approved by voters in November 2009. The dedication ceremony featured speeches from Superintendent Paul Johnson, Board President Robin Moses and Edna Maguire Principal Lisa Zimmer and performances by the school's 3rd and 4th grade chorus.
Click here for more information on the district's Measure C-funded Modernization Program. Watch a video on the new Edna Maguire School below:
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Find Your New Favorite Libation and Gourmet Treat @ Mill Valley Market's Wine, Beer & Gourmet Food Tasting

6/5/2014

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Organizers of the 33rd Annual Mill Valley Market Wine, Beer & Gourmet Food Tasting, set for June 22 from 1–4pm in the Depot Plaza downtown, with proceeds going to the Mill Valley Chamber of Commerce and Kiddo!, the Mill Valley Schools Community Foundation, have made a slew of new additions to the 94941's iconic downtown event, including:
  • Making Kiddo!, the non-profit Mill Valley Schools Community Foundation, a co-beneficiary of the event, along with the Mill Valley Chamber of Commerce 
  • Including complimentary valet bicycle parking, provided by the Marin County Bicycle Coalition and sponsored by Tam Bikes in Mill Valley
  • Creating a KidZone, sponsored by Urban Sitter, provides a fun environment for children agree 2 to 8 and features entertainment, arts and crafts and free childcare services for event attending parents
But while these additions are meant to encourage alternative forms of transportation and help parents with young children attend this fantastic event, they're mere compliments to the main course: some of the best wine, beer and food you'll find anywhere in the Bay Area or beyond. For the 2014 edition of the event, which has been hosted by Mill Valley Market since 1981, wine from 60 premium wineries, beer from nine craft breweries and food from more than 20 food purveyors and 11 local restaurants and chefs.

With that in mind, here's the full list of all of the great brands that will be at the 33rd Annual Mill Valley Market Wine, Beer & Gourmet Food Tasting:
Gourmet Food Purveyors 
BR Cohn 
Carrot Top Treats 
Cici's Italian Butterhorns 
Della Terra Oil 
Equator Coffee & Tea 
Genuto Gelato 
Honeymoon Ice Cream 
Kettle Krakkers 
Laura Chenel Chevre & Marin French Cheese Co 
Leghorn Sales 
Mamies Pies 
Marin Living Foods 
Nibbi's Kitchen 
Nicasio Valley Cheese 
Orthodox Chews 
Parkside Cafe 
Point Reyes Cheese 
Rancho Llano Seco 
Red Barn Walnuts 
Silk Road Teas 
Slow Food for Fast Lives 
Spring Hill 
Wooded Table Baking Co 

Breweries
3rd Street Aleworks 
21st Amendment 
Anderson Valley Brewing 
Devoto Orchard Cider 
Headlands Brewing Company 
Iron Springs 
Moylans Brewing Company and Marin Brewing Company 
Sierra Nevada Brewing Company 
Trumer Brauerei 

Restaurants 
Balboa Café 
Beer Works 
Beth's Community Kitchen 
Bungalow 44 
La Ginestra 
Molina 
O Baby Bar 
Pasta Pomodoro 
Piazza D'Angelo 
Prabh Indian Kitchen 
Tony Tutto Pizza

Wineries
94574 Brand Wines (St. Helena)
Alta Colina (Paso Robles)
Angel Camp Vineyards (Mill Valley) 
Balletto Vineyards (Santa Rosa) 
Balo Vineyards (Philo) 
Boeger Winery (Placerville) 
Brooks Note Winery (Mill Valley) 
Bucher Vineyard Wines (Healdsburg) 
Burke Wine Brokerage (San Francisco) 
Carica Wines (Alameda) 
Cazadero Winery (Fairfax) 
Crosby Roamann (Napa) 
David Girard Vineyards (Placerville) 
Deovlet Wines (San Luis Obispo) 
Estate Wines LTD (Mill Valley) 
Far Niente (Oakville) 
Field Recordings (Leucadia) 
Frank Family Vineyards (Calistoga) 
Gary Farrell Vineyards and Winery (Healdsburg) 
Green & Red (St. Helena) 
Handley Cellars (Philo) 
Harrington Wine (San Francisco) 
Hayfork Wine Co (St Helena) 
Heidrun Meadery (Point Reyes Station) 
Hendry Winery (Napa) 
Hollys Hill (Placerville) 
Honig Vineyard & Winery (Rutherford)
MacRostie Winery (Sonoma)
Martin Ray Winery (Santa Rosa) 
Mason Cellars (Yountville)
Melka Wines (Oakville)
Odisea Wine Company (Danville)
Orentano (San Rafael)
Orin Swift Cellars (Rutherford)
Oro En Paz (San Francisco) 
Pech Merle Winery (Healdsburg)
Picayune (Calistoga) 
Pine and Brown Winery (Napa)
Regal Wine (Santa Rosa) 
Renwood Winery (Plymouth) 
Robert Keenan Winery (St. Helena) 
Rock Wall (Alameda) 
Rock Wren (Berkeley) 
Rombauer Vineyards (St. Helena) 
Silver Oak Cellars (Oakville) 
Speedy Creek Winery (Calistoga) 
Stolpman Vineyards (Los Olivos) 
Trecini Winery (Santa Rosa) 
V2 Wine Group (Sonoma) 
Whitehall Lane Winery and Vineyards (St. Helena) 
Winemonger (San Anselmo) 
WineWise (Ross) 
Wrath Wines (Soledad) 

The 33rd Annual Mill Valley Wine, Beer and Gourmet Food Tasting is presented by Bank of the West with co-sponsors Pacific Union Real Estate, PG&E, Bradley Real Estate, Marin Modern Real Estate and Mini of Marin. Supporting sponsors include Urban Sitter for the KidZone, Tam Bikes for complimentary bicycle parking and Mill Valley Refuse. 

Record attendance of more than 1,000 participants is expected this year. Tickets are $50 in advance and $60 on the day of the event. 

Click here for more info and to buy tickets.

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Photos: Thousands Turn Out for Memorial Day Parade, Pre- and Post-Parade Festivities

5/26/2014

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The 94941's day-long event of the year kicked off with the Mill Valley Volunteer Firefighters Association's annual Pancake Breakfast and a remembrance service at Lytton Square and ended with the Kiddo! Carnival, Concert on the Green and Community Celebration – with a massive Memorial Day Parade thrown in for good measure. Check out photos from throughout the day below.
In addition to the photos above, here's a fantastic video from Mill Valley filmmaker Gary Yost about the Greenwood School's entry in the 2014 Mill Valley Memorial Day Parade:

Greenwood School at the 2014 Mill Valley Memorial Day Parade from Gary Yost on Vimeo.

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Trio of Great Bands Are Ready to Rock Out at Concert on the Green on Memorial Day

5/22/2014

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Post-Parade Kiddo! Carnival, Concert and Community Celebration also features food from the likes of Piazza D'Angelo and Beth's Community Kitchen, among others. Mill Valley Volunteer Firefighters Association's annual Pancake Breakfast begins at 7 a.m. on traffic-free Corte Madera Ave. in front of City Hall.
The biggest day-long party of the year in the 94941, the Memorial Day Parade, along with the pre-parade Mill Valley Volunteer Firefighters’ Association’s Pancake Breakfast and the post-parade Kiddo! Memorial Day Community Celebration and Concert on the Green, is upon us. 

Carnival
The four-day Carnival, which begins Friday at noon and wraps up at 5 p.m. Monday. More than 15 rides, from the Berry-Go-Round and Tune Train for little ones to the Sizzler, Zipper, Tilt-A-Whirl and Texas Tornado, are being provided by Sacramento-based California Carnival Company. After an eight-year hiatus, the Carnival was revived in 2012 as part of the 30th anniversary party for Kiddo. The event has become the centerpiece of Memorial Day weekend on the property around the Community Center and Mill Valley Middle School.

After an eight-year hiatus, the Carnival was revived in 2012 as part of the 30th anniversary party for Kiddo. The event has become the centerpiece of Memorial Day weekend on the property around the Community Center and Mill Valley Middle School.

Advance $20 ticket books are available in the Kiddo! office at the Mill Valley School District from May 19 May 22 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. and on May 23 from 9 a.m. to noon. Ticket books are $30 once the carnival begins. Books may be turned in for a one-day wrist band for unlimited rides. Food and games are extra.

Pancake Breakfast
Memorial Day events kicks off with the Mill Valley Volunteer Firefighters Association's annual Pancake Breakfast, with volunteers serving up some 1,500 to 2,000 plates of pancakes, eggs and sausage, and lines forming around the block outside the Mill Valley Fire Department’s downtown station. The massive event is set for 7 a.m. to 11 a.m. on traffic-free Corte Madera Ave. in front of City Hall and outside the fire station.

Memorial Day Parade

The Memorial Day Parade kicks off at 10:30 a.m., with the Mill Valley Community Church selling fresh coffee and donuts, bottled water and chocolate milk at the corner of Throckmorton & Olive from 9 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. In response to calls from veterans to make the event more traditional, the I Love a Parade Committee is building this year's parade around the theme of “Honoring Those Who Gave Their Lives for Freedom.” 

Organizers have scheduled a ceremony prior to the parade to honor soldiers from Mill Valley who died during war. The ceremony will be held at Lytton Square, the tree-laden island that splits Throckmorton Ave. between Miller and Corte Madera avenues into two. The island is named for Lytton Barber, Mill Valley’s first WWI casualty.

I Love a Parade Committee Chair Larry "the Hat" Lautzker said that while the parade will be much more inclusive of Mill Valley’s original Memorial Day Parade, it won’t lose the community party spirit that has been so evident over the past decade. The parade, which runs down Miller Avenue to Tam High, regularly draws more than 6,000 spectators each year, and includes more than 60 participants. 

Kiddo! Memorial Day Community Celebration
When the float riders, school bands, dignitaries and a bevy of youth groups head to the Mill Valley Community Center after the parade, they’ll have a plenty of fun in front of them.

In addition to the Carnival, tasty treats will be served up by the likes of:
  • Zen Grill
  • Piazza D’Angelo
  • Beth’s Community Kitchen
  • Good Foods Catering
  • Tru Gourmet
  • Noci
  • Kernel Steve’s Kettle Corn
  • Nothing Bundt Cakes
  • Laughing Glass Cocktails
  • Lagunitas Brewing Company
  • Whole Foods Market, East Blithedale Store

Concert on the Green
If food, floats and furious Carnival rides don't quite satiate you, the annual post-parade musical celebration produced by the Sweetwater Music Hall should do the trick. 

Local prodigies Matt Jaffe & the Distractions get things started at noon. The band – Mill Valley singer-songwriter Matt Jaffe is a local prodigy and a music industry veteran at just 19 years old, with Terra Linda resident Alex Coltharp on drums and Novato musician Sammie Fischer on bass – plays a sharp brand of smart indie rock, drawing on a range of influences from the Talking Heads and Ted Leo & The Pharmacists to the Decemberists and Django Reinhardt.

Dan Lebowitz, a founding member of jam band ALO, makes frequent appearances at the Sweetwater Music Hall, including a pair of upcoming performances with the likes of Jason Crosby, Stu Allen, Reed Mathis of Tea Leaf Green and Lukas Nelson, many of whom will be joining Lebo for a set that promises to be a foot-stomper.

Nearly 20 years after his death, the legend of Jerry Garcia continues to reverberates around the world, perhaps nowhere more than in Marin and Mill Valley, where the Grateful Dead god lived for years and where he regularly held court at the old Sweetwater.

Garcia's musical interests were famously varied, and he had a slew of side projects, including his eponymous band, which played rock music that was influenced by blues, folks, country and jazz and also performed rock versions of R&B, roots and reggae songs. Other than bassist John Kahn, Melvin Seals had the longest-serving tenure in the band before Garcia's death, and he has carried the torch almost ever since.

The 411: Click here for more info on the Memorial Day parade and festivities, and here for more info on the Carnival.

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