Page 12 - Boca Exposure - September '22

Page 12, Boca Exposure
Hanley Foundation Raises Dough

At Celebrity Pizza-Making Event

Louie Bossi’s Ristorante

Hosted Packed Boca Festival

Days Event

M ore than 250
local tastemakers and
trendsetters attended the
Hanley Foundation’s
Inaugural “Boca
Celebrity Pizza Cook-
Off” fundraiser held in
conjunction with Boca
Chamber Festival Days
on Aug. 4 at Louie Bossi’s
Ristorante, Pizzeria &
Bar in Boca Raton. South
Florida auctioneer Neil
Saffer served as emcee
and Chef Louie Bossi, Kathleen Naughton, Lisa Elkan Andrea Virgin, Spencer Siegel, Tina Polsky, Troy McLellan Hunter Brockway, Alyssa Hicks
world pizza champion,
served as judge. All funds raised at the event benefited Hanley
Local celebrities competed in a pizza-making challenge, Foundation’s Brice Makris Endowment Fund for
creating culinary concoctions from various ingredients lifesaving treatment scholarships and prevention
provided by Bossi’s kitchen team. Once completed, Judge programs. The event also served as a kickoff to the
(Chef) Bossi sampled foundation’s Second Annual Brice Makris Brunch, taking
each pie and selected a place on Dec. 11 at Boca West Country Club. Foundation
champion. Board member John Makris and his wife Michelle will
Competitors included chair the event that honors their son, Brice, who tragically
St a t e Se na t or Ti ny passed away in March 2020 from a fentanyl overdose.
Polsky; Boca Chamber “There are thousands of individuals suffering from
CEO Troy McLellan; substance use disorders right here in our community,”
Boca Raton Center for said Jan Cairnes, CEO of Hanley Foundation. “With the
Arts & Innovation CEO help of events like these, we can continue to expand our
Andrea Virgin; and prevention programming to stop substance use disorder
Attorney Spencer Bryan before it begins and offer more scholarships to provide
Siegel of Siegel & Siegel, resources for those who cannot afford the financial burden
P.A. Polsky took home of recovery.”
the title of “Champion
Pizza-Maker.” Matt Savarick and Jan Savarick Louie Bossi, Marguerite Connelly, Chip James Hanley Foundation Raises Dough on page 14

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