It was a cold and windy night....but women warriors don't let a little bad weather get in the way of attending a SacWomen SAGE event. And so it was on Wednesday night when we gathered at Mulvaney's Building and Loan new catering space on 19th Street.

Meeting, greeting, catching up, networking, collaborating. We did it all. Some fabulous connections were made. A shoe designer starting an exciting new company met a startup handbag designer. What are the odds of that? They left arm in arm discussing plans for collaboration.

We heard from Cloteal Herron who talked about female stereotypes in the media and what we could do to work to change all those negative references.

And, we had so many prizes (total value at almost $2,000) at Wednesday night’s event, we had to extend the prize table!

Some winners were picked at the event, specifically for the bottle of 90-point rated wine and the 4 bottle basket of wine, the tickets to Roger McGuinn at the Mondavi Center donated by Pathfinder Consulting, the 2 tickets to Geraldine Brooks, donated by California Lectures and 2 Kings tickets donated by Intel c/o Deanna Schluter.

And now for the balance of the winners…drum roll please…
$50 Visa card donated by Roland Biegler, CPA – 2 prizes
Anne Osborne and Gina Swankie

Lunch with Barbara Grant, Partner at American River Ventures, donated by ARV
Jennifer Valenta, Tammy Pinnick, Lori Jennings

2 free tickets to the eWomen Network Foundation’s “An evening of Chocolate Decadence” donated by the eWomen Network – 3 prizes
Karen Doron, Cheryl Romero, Roxanne Jelinek

Life coaching series for yourself and 3 friends – donated by Certified Life Coach Roxanne Jelinek
Tricia Quan

Gift certificate donated by The Black Rooster, Folsom
Jan Bernard

4 Movie Tickets
Tierra Bontemps

Many congratulations. I will be in touch with the winners to discuss logistics.

Prize donors, thank you so much for the very generous donations by the prize givers.
Sponsors: Caroline Jensen of Coldwell Banker and Michelle Hallsten of Pillsbury Winthrop - thanks for supporting the startup efforts of this organization.
Attendees: Keep bringing your friends and growing the network.

Stay tuned for details of the next event in April.

Gillian Parrillo
SacWomen