Kellogg Mansion

Roads leading to the W. K. Kellogg summer estate twist and turn with the lay of the land around Gull Lake. Cottages line narrow streets, marinas hug the shoreline and sailboats skim across the sapphire-blue water during the summer months as visitors make their way to this Michigan landmark located between Kalamazoo and Battle Creek.

Approaching the mansion, a beautiful Tudor style house built between 1925 and 1926, it felt to me like I was visiting a relative or lifelong friend instead of the home of the man who made dry cereal the mainstay of America’s breakfast table.

After all, we all grew up with Kellogg’s — the icons, commercials, and boxes of cereal and snack foods lining our pantry shelves.

Will Keith Kellogg and his second wife, Dr. Carrie Staines, built the house on the highest point overlooking the lake. The site includes a carriage house with chauffeur’s residence, a greenhouse with potting shed, a caretaker’s cottage, a boathouse, an authentic Dutch windmill and a lakeside pagoda — all situated on 32-acres.

Corey Sanford of Music Masters Entertainment Has worked on occasion at this venue and Highly recommends it for all events and weddings.

Children's Art Fair

Children's Art Fair

Cathedral District Children’s Art Fair & Festival
Sunday September 23, 2007

The third annual Cathedral District sponsored Children’s Art Fair and Family Festival, showcasing over 600 works of children’s art, with students from K -12 grades, from 17 Chicagoland schools from throughout the city, will be held on Sunday, September 23, 2007, from 11:00-am-3pm on Superior Street between State & Wabash Streets, Chicago.

Come join us for this fun family day, with something to do for all ages. The DJ and MC will be Corey Sanford owner of Music Masters Entertainment www.musicmastersrock.com, Dance performances will be provided by All About Dance, a sing along with Joe Kroeger & popular magician, Sean Masterson, will be featured; Looking Glass Theatre will be performing a scene from Black Beauty. A face painter, balloon maker, caricaturist and a hair stylist will be available for the kids.

The children’s art is judged by some of Chicago’s finest with art aficionados from the Art Institute of Chicago, the Museum of Contemporary Art and Loyola University Museum of Art (LUMA). Numerous cash donations are awarded to the art departments, along with prizes to the student winners in each category.

The mission of the Cathedral District Association is to serve the Chicagoland community by providing an interfaith campus to celebrate the dynamic history, cultural contribution and diversity of the city.

Corporate benefactors and sponsors include the Omni Chicago Hotel, the Fordham Co., Chicago Chop House, Metropolitan Capital Bank, and Driehaus Capital Management.

For further information on the Cathedral District Association or the Children’s Art Fair, please contact Terri Ryan, Executive Director, Cathedral District at 312/726-4691.

Lamborghini Fashion Show

Creative Impact Group & Corey Sanford of Music Masters Entertainment produced the high profile luxury fashion show featuring gorgeous Italian clothing and jewels from Razny Jewelers, Hana K, Hinsdale Clothiers and Frances Heffernan, for the opening of the new Lamborghini auto dealership in Westmont. Funds from this event benefited the Children's Memorial Hospital as well as commemorating the opening of Lamborghini Chicago. Dignitaries included Lamborghini Chicago owner Bill Nuccio Sr., his business partner Marc Iozzo, Thomas Castronovo, managing director and director of marketing for the Private Bank, Westmont Village May William Rahn, and Stephan Winkelmann, president and CEO of Automobili Lamborghini S.p.A, who flew in from Sant'Agata Bolognese, Italy, to help celebrate the opening.

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Willow Wood Preschool's 40th Birthday, Parents' Party, & Auction

Willow Wood preschool celebrates its 40th birthday with a casual benefit Jan. 27 at the Winnetka Woman's Club. Corey Sanford owner of Music Masters Entertainment provided the sound and lighting for the evening.

The preschool has had a number of locations including Kenilworth, Wilmette and Winnetka and is currently at Christ Church in Winnetka.


Bryon Lytton and Andy Worth look over silent auction items at the Willow Wood Preschool benefit.
(Stacia Timonere/for Pioneer Press)


Benagh Newsome and Megan Sandquist at the Willow Wood Preschool benefit. (Stacia Timonere/for Pioneer Press)

Jaguar Fashion Show & Charity

Music Masters Fashion @Jaguar

Hana K
Designer and Founder Hana Lang's career began, improbably, as she was preparing to attend Medical school in 1978. A chance meeting with her future husband, Pierre, just completing his Law degree at prestigious McGill, led to the pair stepping off their intended, individual career paths and, together, creating a new one - exciting, original and fresh. With Hana's design concepts and Pierre's experience in his family's fur business, Hana K's trademark concept of functional outerwear of exquisite style was established –a complete and gorgeous reinventing the concept of the coat. In 1980 Hana and Pierre opened their first showroom and factory on Seventh Avenue in New York, catering to both the retail and wholesale worlds. Respected retailers such as Bergdorf Goodman, Neiman Marcus, Nordstrom and Saks Fifth Avenue all enthusiastically introduced their clientele to Hana K's sophisticated and sleek design. In 1995 Hana K expanded its horizons and moved west. Establishing new locations in Chicago and the surrounding area. Hana K's wide variety of styles, fabrics and colors offer men and women a stylish business look by day and glamour by night, custom-tailored to each and every lifestyle. Twenty five years after that first meeting, Hana and Pierre are still dedicated to providing the utmost in exquisite, one of a kind coats. Featherweight shearling, opulent cashmere, elegant raincoat or fabulous fur - Hana K provides the very best in comfort, durability and detail. You almost can't call them mere coats - Hana K's designs dwell in a special class of their own.

Imperial Motors Jaguar in Wilmette

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE For additional information contact:
Candice Kuhnen 847-835-0121
First Leap for Charity
Event’s Menu Makes Gourmet Mouth’s Water

Wilmette, IL (Feb. 23, 2008) More than a dozen of the North Shore’s best restaurants will be serving specialties at the charitable gala, First Leap for Charity. Being held on Leap Year’s Day, First Leap will be held at the newly remodeled showrooms of Imperial Motors Jaguar in Wilmette with proceeds going to four charities: the American Stroke Foundation, Cancer Wellness Center, Healthy Child Healthy World and PAWS Chicago (Pets are worth Saving).

The dishes will feature truffles (both the mushroom and the candy), tastes from a variety of cultural traditions, and both casual and formal dishes. Participating restaurants, caterers and purveyors of fine spirits, and their contributions include:

Ø Chinoiserie Restaurant – spring rolls
Ø Chocolate Potpourri – truffles and gourmet toffee
Ø Francesco's Hole in the Wall – Italian sausage and peppers
Ø Garden Fresh Market – Mediterranean feast – grape leaves with lemon sauce, hummus and pita
Ø Las Palmas – Cheese quesadillas, nachos and chips
Ø La Petite Amelia - Eggplant Cavier on garlic toast point
Ø Life Vegan – Vegetarian Restaurant – carrot supreme tuna sandwich, bbq twist, macaroni and soy cheese, potato salad, kale preens, cashew cheese cake
Ø Omaggio – Carpaccio with Harry's Bar sauce on homemade foccaccia bread
Ø Rose's Wheat Free Bakery – desserts, cookies, small cakes
Ø RT Sushi Bar & Lounge – Spicy Tuna Roll
Ø Starbucks - coffee
Ø Tomato Head – assortment of pizza's
Ø Tramonto's Steak & Seafood - Truffled Goughers with Mushroom Duxelle
Ø Va Pensiero Restaurant - Sambuca cured Alaskan salmon with citrus vegetable salad
Ø Pravda Vodka, donated by Mark Levinson
Ø Wines by International Wine Cellars

The event will also celebrate the 25th anniversary of full-service communications firm ABC Communications, Inc. ABC president Candice Kuhnen is organizing First Leap.

First Leap for Charity will be from 6 to 10 p.m. Friday February 29, at 721 Green Bay Road, Wilmette. Admission is $30, with checks made out to attendees choice of the four charities. Proceeds of a silent auction will also go 100 percent to the charities.

The evening will also feature live music, a fashion show and a drawing for an all-inclusive trip to Cancun, provided by American Invsco Realty and their Novo Cancun Beach Marina & Golf Resort.

The spectacular fashion show will be emceed by Pierre Lang from Hana K, Chicago’s couture outwear designer. Bobby Chi will present his breathtaking hand painted silks, and the show will include hip men’s and woman’s fashions from Enaz and Dalaj of Highland Park and exquisite jewelry from Hoffman Jewelers of Highland Park.

The DJ for the fashion show and stage decor will be Corey Sanford owner of Music Masters Entertainment ...www.musicmastersrock.com

Live music will be presented by DePaul University jazz studies majors John Tucker (trumpet), Jimmy Green (alto sax), Charlie Cohen (guitar), Nick Kabat (drums) and Mike Saigh (bass).
ABC Communications, Inc., is a full-service communications agency that develops, designs and produces advertising and marketing materials, promotional events (under its subsidiary, It’s an Event) and public relations campaigns, both locally and on a national scale.

For more information on First Leap for Charity, see www.abc-communications.com, call (800-838-3006) or make reservations on line www.brownpapertickets.com.