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Delaware Botanic Gardens’ annual dinner raises $134,000

Back to the Garden event celebrates 10-year relationship with SoDel Concepts
October 6, 2022

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Delaware Botanic Gardens
30220 Piney Neck Road
Dagsboro, DE 19939
United States

Delaware Botanic Gardens hosted its annual dinner Sept. 29, raising more than $134,000 for the multi-garden facility outside Dagsboro.

This year’s dinner, called Back to the Garden, was a celebration of DBG’s 10-year relationship with SoDel Concepts. Dinner co-chairs were SoDel Concepts President and CEO Scott Kammerer and wife Lisa. Other partners included  Bin 66, Vince Varrassi and Fifth Avenue, Coastal Tented Events and An Affair to Remember.

Included in the funds raised was meeting the $25,000 challenge match from Ron Bass and George Robbins.

For more information on Delaware Botanic Gardens, 30220 Piney Neck Road, Dagsboro, call 302-321-9061, go to delawaregardens.org or email Executive Director Sheryl Swed at sherylswed@delawaregardens.org.

 

Chris Flood has been working for the Cape Gazette since early 2014. He currently covers Rehoboth Beach and Henlopen Acres, but has also covered Dewey Beach and the state government. He covers environmental stories, business stories and random stories on subjects he finds interesting, and he also writes a column called Choppin’ Wood that runs every other week. Additionally, Flood moonlights as the company’s circulation manager, which primarily means fixing boxes that are jammed with coins during daylight hours, but sometimes means delivering papers in the middle of the night. He’s a graduate of the University of Maine and the Landing School of Boat Building & Design.