dining out for life
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Dining Out for Life Chicago has been a very successful and fun event. Chicago is one of over forty cities that participate across the United States and Canada. The concept is so basic: Go out and eat. In the past thirteen years, thousands of people and hundreds of restaurants in the Chicagoland area have joined hands in a partnership to raise money, have fun, and give to those who need our help. This year is the fourteenth annual Dining Out for Life Chicago event. DOFL hopes to have over 100 restaurants and thousands of people go out to eat, have fun with family and friends and raise enough money to assist an excellent HIV/AIDS organization do what they do best help homeless men, women, and children who are living with HIV or AIDS, live life to its fullest. Chicago's benefiting agency is AIDSCARE.
You can see it and feel it when you cross the threshold: this is a place where life is affirmed. It is a trusting, caring, welcoming environment with personal space for reflecting and relaxing, communal areas for sharing and growing, programs designed for healing and coping, an ongoing exchange between everyone who lives and works and visits here. In other words, AIDSCARE is a home. Dining Out for Life YOU can help make this a huge success. If you like to eat and have fun, please pick one of the participating restaurants and go out to eat on April 26, 2007. We have the dream of making this event a success. Only you can make it happen. For a complete listing of participating restaurants, see the Dining Out for Life ad in this issue or visit www.aidscare.org This year BOI Magazine wanted to highlight a few of the restaurants that will be participating in DOFL. It was going to be a challenge since there are so many restaurants involved. So we put all the names in a hat and selected four restaurants. We asked the restaurants a few questions about their food, specialties and why they were participating in this great event. These are the four restaurants that we randomly selected. Horizons
Café What style of
food do you serve? Why are you participating
in Dining Out for Life? How do you describe
your restaurant? What are your
hours of business? Is there any
additional information you want our readers to know? Then next restaurant we selected
is Angelina's Ristorante, a long time favorite in Boystown. Angelina's
gives it to us direct and straight to the point. What style of
food do you serve? Why are you participating
in Dining Out for Life? What is your
restaurant most known for? How do you describe
your restaurant? What would you
like to tell our readers? Mia Francesca
What is your
restaurant most known for? What are your
hours of business? |
Dining
Out for Life is a wonderful international event. As with all special events, success depends
mostly on getting the word out because the amount of money raised
depends on how many people participate. Dining Out for Life is
all about raising money for our fathers, mothers, brothers, sisters,
friends and relatives who are living with HIV/AIDS. That is the
sole purpose. I wish to God that we didn't have to do this. I
wish that this horrendous disease no longer existed, but it does,
and we have to continue helping those affected take care of themselves.
We have to be extra generous with our time and money so that
they will continue to live with dignity and care for as long
as they live. 
Who
is AIDSCARE? -
AIDSCARE is a home to individuals, couples, men and women. And,
while the house is structured to allow residents to move along
a continuum from independent to assisted living and back, depending
on their needs, and to help them access all the medical and support
services they require, there is something else that makes AIDSCARE
unique.
What
style of food do you serve?
