Crawford-Fleming Breast Cancer Awareness Invitational, Tracy McWilliams & Daniel Otto

It seems that even massive fires can't keep avid golfers/philanthropists away from a good time on the course for long. Case in point: the fun-fest that was the Crawford-Fleming Breast Cancer Awareness Invitational, benefiting the Sheila R. Veloz Breast Imaging Center (that was a mouthful). The tournament, which was postponed a week due to the recent blaze, was held at Tournament Players Club Valencia. Besides an intense amount of club swingers, also present was local fashion designer Tracy McWilliams, who literally donated the shirt off her back (100 of them, to be precise) to the event; TPC's Head Chef Daniel Otto, who's deft wielding of all things culinary resulted in a smorgasbord of fantastic proportions; and Myra Harbour, owner of Celebrate - Planning For An Event to Remember, who helped create the "Casino for a Cause" were all worthy of high roller status.

Zonta Tribute, Nick Lentini & Mike Berger

And speaking of fires... Mike Berger was supposed to be in the hot seat in early November, but his clean livin' ways made it none too easy to lampoon him "roast style" at Zonta's Tribute in his honor. The decidedly G-rated event featuring the 2006 SCV Man of the Year was mocked for his optimism (guess Berger's catch phrase is "It's beautiful," even when the situation's anything but), anti-caffeine/anti-sugar/anti-grease stance (Yes, we think it's funny that someone named "Berger" is anti-burger, too. We're guessing Mike's pro-bark, though.), and his bad hip (which was attributed by friend/roaster Nick Lentini to Mike's grease deficit, which now that important SCVians know about it, must be a plague sweeping the nation. Perhaps a Grease Awareness poker tournament, chaired by Berger, of course, is in order?).