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Annual Client Holiday Luncheon with Tom Nolan

Today, we hosted our annual holiday luncheon for clients and once again our Executive Chef, Mike Baroman-Coggins put out a feast! Clients were treated to prime rib roast, roasted game hens, vegetable lasagna, roasted winter vegetables and golden potatoes. For dessert, there was pumpkin pie with fresh whipped cream, Joseph Schmidt chocolate truffles and an array of cookies and chocolate kisses. This year we saw our biggest turnout ever with more than 100 clients from the HIV, Senior and Breast Cancer programs turning out to share the holiday cheer. Executive Director, Tom Nolan presided over the event and doubled as a waiter and busboy!

The Holiday Luncheon is an outgrowth of our bi-monthly Lunch with Tom meetings which we host for clients. The Lunch with Tom is normally an opportunity for client to talk directly with Tom and senior management about how services are working and how we can make improvements. For the Holiday Luncheon, we dispense with the feedback and focus on eating but you can be sure we’ll get back down to business at the next Lunch with Tom. Today’s event was held in SF and we will be hosting a holiday get together for East Bay clients in Oakland next week.