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Annual SOY FIESTA was our most successful

event ever! We not only had the most people

attend, over 180, but we also had the most fun,

and we raised the most money ever!

With the help of a $25,000 Matching Challenge Grant from Hoag

Hospital Foundation, Corporate Sponsorship from St. Joseph Health

System Foundation, Event Sponsorship from Taco Rosa, and over 40

Platinum through Bronze Sponsors, and a successful silent auction

and opportunity drawing, the FIESTA raised over $80,000!

This was a wonderful way to celebrate our 20^th Anniversary.

Please check out the photos on the Fiesta Tab. You can also

see the complete list of sponsors by clicking here, and if you

missed the event and still want to make a contribution,

please click here.

Check out some pictures from the Fiesta

Kimberley and Earl Votalato, SOY donors, Mary Cappellini,

SOY Board Member, Diane Calderon, wife of Ivan Calderon and

Event Sponsor, Joe Forbath, Bronze Sponsor, Joe Ericson, SOY

Honoree and original Board Member, with wife Alessa Ericson.

SOY students selling opportunity drawing tickets with SOY Donors,

Kathy & John Ursini, owner of Newport Rib Company and Karen Ursini.

Bidding on the Silent Auction at the FIESTA.

Gabriela Robles, Executive Director of St. Joseph’s Health Systems

Foundation, with Rafael Zavala, Laura and Hector Salitero, guests

of St. Joseph’s who was the Corporate Sponsors of the FIESTA.

Dinner during the 5^th Annual Fiesta and inside

the Halecrest Clubhouse.

During our Fiesta we took the opportunity to award

3 very important people with our “Honorary Award”

to show appreciation for all the years of support they

have contributed to the Save Our Youth Center.

Checkout pictures of this years recipients

Joe Erickson, a founding board member of SOY and mayor 

of Costa Mesa at the time,  receives an Honorary Award 

during the FIESTA program, for his Service, Dedication 

and Commitment to SOY and the Youth they serve for over 

20 years, from SOY Board members, Jean Forbath and Don Maher.

Carmen Barrios, one of the SOY Founders,  a SOY employee 

for 18 years, and the "Heart and Soul" of SOY, also receives 

an Honorary Service Award from SOY Board Members Don Maher 

and Jean Forbath, was also one of the Founders of SOY.


Ivan Calderon, owner of Taco Rosa and Taco Mesa, Event 

Sponsor of the FIESTA and past Board member of SOY, 

also receives an Honorary Award for his Service,

Dedication and Commitment to SOY over the last 20 years.