September 16th & 17th.

Come help make our famous jams & jellies! Or help our LC Creations team! Or more to be determined!

9:00-5:00 each day. Come anytime and stay as long as you like.

Join Us for a Las Candalistas Movie Outing

Saturday, September 21^st , 2:30 pm.

Happy hour or early dinner to follow at a location to be determined.

Safety Last!

1923 • Harold Lloyd • With Live Accompaniment by Randy Woltz on the Mighty Wurlitzer • This comic masterpiece gave us the most iconic image of the silent era: Harold Lloyd dangling from a clock on a skyscraper. It’s one of the greatest film comedies ever made, and Harold Lloyd is one of the true masters of cinematic sight gags. Don’t miss this rare opportunity to experience Safety Last on the big screen, accompanied live on a theatre pipe organ.

Saturday, Sep 21, 2:30 PM

 Old Town Music Hall in El Segundo

140 Richmond Street, El Segundo, CA  90245

Since 1968, Old Town Music Hall has been showing classic films.  Silent films are accompanied by the Mighty Wurlitzer, a massive 1925 wind-powered pipe organ that has been meticulously preserved so that silent classics can be experienced with live musical accompaniment, just as they did when they were first shown.  It’s something you really must see and hear to believe.

Tickets are $21.00 per person Payable to Julie Waldron or Janie Woodburn

RSVP to Julie at waldrons4@msn.com  or Janie at jwoodlett@verizon.net 

DO NOT reply to this email, your response will be lost.

We only have 12 tickets – The first 12 people to pay will be able to join in the fun.  If we sell out of tickets, there may be additional tickets on the Old Town Music Hall website and you can purchase your ticket individually and join us for movie and fun afterwards.

Thank you!

Julie Waldron waldrons4@msn.com and Janie Woodburn jwoodlett@verizon.net

Chairs, Liaisons of Fun 2024-25

Boo’s anyone? Come if you dare to our spooky, thrilling and exciting first ever Cocktails at Sunset. If you are brave to accept, here are the details:

•  This is open to the first 40 members that respond (sorry, no spouses at this event). We will have a waiting list so if you are accepted and can’t make it, please let Lorri Mino know.
• Small bites will be offered. To quote Dracula “Just the right ‘bite’ of food”
• There will be a “special” cocktail offered and some red and white Italian wines. If you would prefer something else, please bring your own bottle.
• What to expect – a fabulous night touring the spooky and fabulous home of Stella Bullock while mingling and making new friends. We’ll get each other pumped up for our new year and our fun upcoming events, The Fall Social and of course, our Fall Fundraiser. Hope you can make it…we’ll be waiting for you!

NOTE: This event is now filled to capacity! Please let Lorri know at lorrimino@gmail.com if:

• You would like to be placed on the wait list
• If you are one of the lucky ones that are in and now can’t make it.

This is not just another General Meeting! At this meeting you’ll hear presentations from our Top 6 Philanthropies. Following the presentations, the voting membership will select our Top 3. Note: If you are a voting member you must attend this meeting either in person or via Zoom to vote. There will be no absentee voting.

9:00 Social Time

9:30 Meeting Begins

Our Fall Social is our first social event of the year! It’s a Las Candalistas tradition! Our Provisional class organizes this fun event.

More details to come soon!

CLICK HERE TO PURCHASE TICKETS NOW

Join us for a day of shopping and lunch as we go

Between the Lines with 4 local best-selling authors.

Friday, Nov. 1, 2024

10:00-3:00

Palos Verdes Golf Club, 3301 Via Campesina, Palos Verdes Estates

Open seating – no reservations (except for groups of 10)

Improved sound system!

$125 Admission Price increases to $135 after October 7th.

Ticket sales close October 18th

All sales final.

Questions? email us at lascandalistas@gmail.com

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The Conversation Continues

Between the Lines … A Literary Luncheon

the sequel to 2023’s successful Between the Covers

Your literary day will include:

Welcome glass of champagne

Passed hors d’oeuvres

Plated 2 course lunch

The Las Candalistas Marketplace Experience!

Shop our unique Creations; our famous Jams & Jellies; our sure to sell out Sweet Shoppe goodies, plus the always popular Found Treasures

Specialty Vendors

Silent Auction: bid on exciting experiences and items!

Buy it Now Packages: Private Chef prepared dinner in your home for 8; Cooking Classes in your home; or a stay at a boutique Tuscan Hotel outside of Florence.

And more!

Find the perfect holiday gifts or treat yourself (it’s for a great cause!)

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Featuring conversations with 4 local best-selling authors:

Ellen Byron is a USA Today bestselling author, Anthony nominee, and recipient of multiple Agatha and Lefty awards for her Cajun Country Mysteries, Vintage Cookbook Mysteries, and Catering Hall Mysteries (as Maria DiRico). A Very Woodsy Murder is the first book in her new Golden Motel Mystery series. She is also an award-winning playwright and non-award-winning writer of TV hits like Wings, Just Shoot Me, and Fairly OddParents, but considers her most impressive achievement working as a cater-waiter for Martha Stewart.

An alum of New Orleans’ Tulane University, she blogs with Chicks on the Case, is a lifetime member of the Writers Guild of America and serves on the national board for Mystery Writers of America. She lives in the Los Angeles area with her husband, daughter, and rescue pooch Cammie.

Amber Susa is the author of “Born To Be All Of Me: Moving Out Of Self-Abandonment Into Authentic Embodiment”, a best-selling book in the category of personal development and spiritual growth. She is an entrepreneur, fitness expert, life-long dancer, holistic health and embodiment coach, Reiki healer, inspirational speaker, performer, spiritual mentor, and teacher. Amber is the founder and owner of Allomi (all-of-me), a platform for holistic health and healing that focuses on movement, meditation, and mindfulness. She is the creator and writer of her one-woman show, Waking Up to All Of Me: The Integration of The Inner Child and The Empowered Woman, performed most recently at the Hollywood Fringe Festival, where it received rave reviews. She is most passionate about supporting women in becoming all of who they were born to be. Amber currently resides in Palos Verdes, CA with the two loves of her life, her daughter Dawson and son Will.

Tom Sullivan’s life is a testament to courage and challenge, gratitude and service. Born 3 months prematurely, Tom was given too much oxygen in an incubator that saved his life but cost him his sight. Sullivan’s achievements are remarkable despite the disability.

Educated at the Perkins School for the Blind, Providence College, and Harvard, Tom excelled as a student and an athlete. Sullivan’s a member of the Wrestling Hall of Fame, a marathon runner, avid skier, and golfer who routinely shoots in the high 80’s.

His career as a singer/songwriter has taken him to concert venues around the world, and his roles as an actor have entertained audiences on TV series like Highway to Heaven, Touched by an Angel, Designing Women, Mork and Mindy, and WKRP in Cincinnati. He also spent 6 years as a special correspondent for ABC’s Good Morning America where his touching stories on people beating the odds became a Wednesday morning staple. He is the author of 14 books and his biography, If You Could See What I Hear, was made into a highly successful movie in 1982. He will be discussing his book “The Leading Lady, Dinah’s Story” co- authored with Betty White. He notes that being married to his wife, Patty, and having his children, Blythe and Tom, are his greatest treasure and most important achievement.

Tom’s life of service has been recognized with awards such as the Hellen Keller Lifetime Achievement Award, the Will Rogers National Humanitarian Award, the Apollo Award for his work in eye care, and the naming of a classroom and legacy fund thanks to the over $8M he and his wife Patty have raised for the Blind Children’s Center of Los Angeles.

Showing no signs of slowing down, Sullivan is actively pursuing opportunities to continue his commitment to a life of service. His formula for living is remarkably simple: “Challenge yourself to be the best person possible and in that effort, choose to make a difference in the lives of others.”

Patty Sullivan was born in Detroit, Michigan, and raised in Tucson where she attended the University of Arizona.

During a summer spent on Cape Cod, she met her husband, Tom Sullivan, who was attending Harvard at the time but pursuing a career in the music business. At the same time, they met Allen Ludden and Betty White who became mentors and beloved lifetime friends, inspiring their own loving marriage of fifty-three years.

Tom and Patty have two grown children, Blythe and Tom, Jr. While raising their family, Patty traveled with Tom for his music concerts and television appearances as well as thousands of motivational speaking engagements across the country. Along the way she served her community in many capacities. Most important to her is the organization she founded to support the Blind Children’s Center of Los Angeles, raising more than 10 million dollars to date. Equally important is her long-time commitment to Providence Little Company of Mary Hospital. As a Trustee Emeritus she continues to serve on their Ministry Board and Mission Community Health Committee.

She has had a wonderfully full life and along the way, was blessed with an incredible relationship with the remarkable Betty White, her mentor and surrogate mother, prompting her to write this loving tribute, Betty White’s Pearls of Wisdom: Life Lessons from a Beloved American Treasure.

And your Host for the Conversation:

Rebecca Forster was a participant in last year’s Between the Covers. We’re thrilled to have her back as host! Rebecca started writing on a crazy dare and found her passion. Now a USA Today and Amazon bestselling author with over 40 books to her name. Laurie Levenson, CBS Legal Correspondent calls Forster’s legal and police thrillers “perfect…impossible to put down.”.

The Witness Series, set in Hermosa Beach, is published worldwide and has over three million readers. Rebecca’s Finn O’Brien series takes inspiration from the micro-communities in Los Angeles. Her fast-paced tales are known for deep characterization and never-see-it-coming endings.

Rebecca has taught at the acclaimed UCLA Writers Program. She is a sought-after speaker, keynoting at judges and bar associations, business and philanthropic groups. She has also been a repeat presenter at the LA Times Festival of Books.

Forster does extensive research to bring authenticity to her work. She is a graduate of both DEA and ATF citizen’s academies, Palos Verdes PD gun safety course, and landed by tailhook on the USS Nimitz where she was a guest on the aircraft carrier during the Leaders to Sea Program. World travel informs her work from Albania to China and all points in between.

Rebecca is the mother to two grown sons and is married to a Los Angeles Superior Court judge. She has been a Palos Verdes resident since 1995. She is feverously trying to finish her 9^th book in the Witness series which will feature a Las Candalistas member!

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Note: the start time for this meeting is different from our normal General Meetings.

2:00 Social Time

2:30 Meeting Begins

9:00 Start Time

9:30 Meeting Begins

9:00 Social Time

9:30 Meeting Begins

In addition to the normal meeting agenda, nominations for the Board of Directors takes place at this meeting.

9:00 Social Time

9:30 Meeting Begins

In addition to the normal General Meeting agenda, this is also the Annual Board of Directors meeting. Voting for the Board of Directors takes place at this meeting. Voting members must either attend this meeting in person or via Zoom in order to vote. There is no absentee voting.

9:00 Social Time

9:30 Meeting Begins

9:00 Social Time

9:30 Meeting Begins

This is our final General Meeting of the year! We invite our Top 3 philanthropies to attend and receive their check. In addition, we’ll introduce the Officers for the next year and you’ll meet our Provisionals for next year. It’s a time to celebrate!

10:00 Social Time

10:30 Meeting Begins

12:00 Lunch

Location TBD