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LONG BRANCH, NJ -- The Two Rivers Garden Tour, a two-day event featuring a tour of six beautiful and rarely viewed gardens in Monmouth County’s ‘Two Rivers’ area, is marking its 15th anniversary this weekend.
In addition to the garden tour on Saturday, May 30 and Sunday, May 31, the event will feature a 15th Anniversary Celebration Cocktail Party and Auction on Friday, May 29, from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. at the home of Marshall and Janice Knopf of Red Bank. The party will honor Rumson residents Michael and Diane Gooch, the longtime ad journal underwriters for the event whose West River Road estate will be featured on the 2009 tour.
In addition to the Gooches’ property, featured on the 2009 tour will be the gardens of Pat and Paul Pritchard, and B.J. Thomspon, both on Fair Haven Road, Fair Haven; Sue Rastelli and Bill Grabowski, Riverlawn Drive in Fair Haven; Stevie and Todd Thomspon, Doughty Lane in Fair Haven; and Kim and Thomas Widener, Buena Vista Road, Rumson.
The Two Rivers Garden Tour is the major fund-raiser for the Jacqueline M. Wilentz Comprehensive Breast Center at Monmouth, raising more than $2 million since its inception to fund cutting-edge technology and the most advanced breast care available. The Wilentz center offers the highest standard of well and breast cancer care to all women regardless of their ability to pay, and consistently remains a leader in research, technology and treatment. It offers all digital screening and diagnostic mammography and was designated as a Center of Excellence by the American College of Radiology. It is the region’s only breast center to compile a completely unblemished record for total compliance with the federal Mammography Qualities Standards Act since its opening in 1994. Additionally, the Wilentz center is one of only two breast centers in New Jersey and one of only 33 in North America to be asked to participate in the American College of Radiology Imaging Network’s digital mammography clinical trail (DMIST).
Hours for the garden tour are Saturday, May 30, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., and Sunday, May 31, from 11:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. To learn more, call Monmouth Medical Center Foundation at 732-933-6886, or visit www.tworivershow.org.
Date: May 26, 2009
CONTACT: Kristine A. Brown
Director of Public Relations
732-557-3902
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