MIDDLETOWN >> Tickets are on sale for the annual Soroptimist Spring Fling on March 12 at the Twin Pine Event Center in Middletown. Doors open at 11:30 a.m. The event includes lunch, silent and live auctions, an incredible basket raffle and a guest speaker. Proceeds fund local programs benefiting women and girls.
The featured speaker for this year’s event is Sandra Millers Younger, author of “The Fire Outside My Window: A Survivor Tells the True Story of California’s Epic Cedar Fire,” which has been acclaimed as required reading for residents of wildfire country and adopted as a training text for top-level emergency response manager and incident commanders.
Younger lost her home, 12 neighbors and nearly her own life in the Cedar Fire — the biggest known wildfire in California history — which ravaged San Diego County in 2003, burning 280,000 acres, destroying over 2,200 homes and killing 15 people.
Today, as a speaker and founder of ComeBACK Solutions, Intl., Younger works with disaster survivors and emergency response leaders to promote resilience — the quality that transforms disasters, loss and trauma into growth, opportunity and global impact. Younger and her husband Bob were featured in the NBC Dateline special “Escape: The Great California Fire.” She was also featured speaker at the recent National Association of Foresters Conference.
Sponsor tables are available and individual tickets are $40 each. Lunch includes meat and vegetarian dishes, beverages and the Soroptimist famous dessert bar. Send payment to SI Clear Lake, P.O. Box 7167, Clearlake, CA 95422. For more information, call President Olga Martin Steele at 707-998-1302.
