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The event, which benefits the Santa Clarita Valley Youth Project, will be held Saturday at the Tournament Players Club in Valencia.
The SCV Youth Project helps teens who are facing serious issues such as drug/alcohol abuse, anger, divorce, peer pressure, grief/loss, suicide and depression. The Youth Project offers free, bilingual, one-to-one or group counseling, distributes FRY cards (which list emergency numbers) and leads a variety of specialized youth programs.
Among the sponsors of the Sweet Charity Cake Auction and Competition are Bellasport, Princess Cruises and Six Flags Magic Mountain.
Judges at the cake decorating competition will include MacLeod - best known as Captain Stubing from the '80s hit show, "The Love Boat" and Sonja Schmidt, an Emmy-nominated writer who has worked on the television shows "Living Color," "Hidden Hills," "That's So Raven" and "Corey in the House." Also judging will be Leigh Grode from the TLC television show "Ultimate Cake Off." She has appeared on numerous television programs, including "Amazing Wedding Cakes,", "The Lazy Environmentalist," "Martha Stewart" and "InStyle Celebrity Weddings."
"It should be a great night. The excitement has skyrocketed and we have 40 cakes entered, each more fantastic than the next. We are at cake-pacity," said Kim Goldman, executive director for the SCV Youth Project. "Having Leigh, Gavin and Sonja join the fun, will surely make for a memorable evening. Included in our list, we have two young people entering cakes this year, and have a 5-year-old who designed a cake to represent his family's business."
Goldman said the event is a fun and creative way to promote local companies, charities and schools.
"All are invited to design a specialty cake to promote their business, mission, logo, product or mascot. Like last year, cakes will be put on display for viewing and bidding," she said. "Cakes will be paired with unique gifts like trips, baskets and gift certificates which create an innovative and valuable auction item."
Cakes will be awarded prizes in several categories including originality and creativity as well as the cake that raises the most money. The auction and judging will be held at a "cake"tail reception, at TPC at Valencia.
"There is still time to get your tickets. For just $40 there couldn't be a better, more creative option to spend a Saturday night," said event co-chair, Jeri Seratti Goldman of KHTS. Renee Kaehny of Rituals Colour Salon is also serving as a co-chair of the event.
"The Santa Clarita Valley Youth Project is celebrating 10 years of successfully providing free services to teens in the Santa Clarita Valley," said Goldman.
Since the doors opened in 2000, the Youth Project has assisted more than 32,000 local families, including 27,000 youth and 5,500 adults. In 2008/2009, with services on six high schools and seven junior high campuses, the SCV Youth Project provided more than 2,000 hours of service to more than 1,000 young adults in the SCV with serious life challenges."
Sweet Charity Cake Auction and Competition, 6 p.m. Saturday, at Tournament Players Club in Valencia. Tickets $40. For information about the SCV Youth Project, visit www.HelpNotHassle.org.
