A Night for Sight

05/25/2016

Thanks to all of our supporters for a great 2016 event! If you enjoyed the wines featured with dinner, here is your chance to bring some home....
http://anfs.org//documents/amuse_bouche_order_forms.pdf

05/18/2013

Our 2013 event may have been a smaller affair, but easily could be one of our biggest successes! While we scaled down on the number of auction lots and focused on quality and purpose, we were able to end the evening with a higher net than in past years while leaving plenty of time for our wonderful guests to truly enjoy one another. What a fun and beautiful evening with a group of amazingly generous people! Thank you to ALL! Special thanks to Conner Park Florist, who once again created gorgeous arrangements for our event; To Bob Egelhoff, our special feature vintner and long time friend; the fabulous staff at the Townsend Hotel who redefined service; to Artistic Printing and Whitlock Printing; Gary Mach, auctioneer; Dr. Lylas Mogk of HFHS Vision Rehabilitation Center; Dr. Kimberly Drenser of Associated Retinal Group; Amber Todd, photographer; Sally Gerak of Social Lights; to our sponsors, donors and hardworking volunteers......your dedication makes all the difference in the world to our mission! Rich blessings to all!

07/09/2012

The statistics indicate that we need to pay much more attention to the health of our eyes! Yikes! Never has the funds we raise with A Night for Sight been so important...
Check it out.

In the decade between 2000 and 2010, the just-released report from (jointly) Prevent Blindness America, the National Eye Institute and Johns Hopkins University tells us:

89 = percent increase in the number of people with diabetic retinopathy
8 million = Americans over 40 diagnosed with diabetic retinopathy
25 = percent increase in age-related macular degeneration
2 million+ = individuals over the age of 50 with macular degeneration
22 = percent increase in open-angle glaucoma
2.7 million = people over 40 with glaucoma
19 = percent increase in cataracts in people 40 and older
24.4 million = people 40 and older with cataracts


http://www.visionproblemsus.org/vision-impairment/vision-impairment-map.html

Vision Problems in the U.S. - Prevalence of Adult Vision Impairment and Age-Related Eye Disease in America is a publication of Prevent Blindness America.

06/21/2012

Betty White sure knows how to live life, doesn't she?

05/18/2012

HOT LOTS!

Saturday night May 19 at the A Night for Sight event in Dearborn

Travel lots with their wines from both of our Honorary Vintner:

Flora Springs: Napa Valley for 3 couples / 3 nights at Rancho Caymus, including winery visits, tours and tastings.

Château des Karantes: The South of France, by the Mediterranean, for one week for 4-6, with a tasting, dinner and other visits arranged.

Other travel lots, including: Tuscany for two for a week; Chateau Beychevelle in Bordeaux for 2 couples – 3 nights, a Paris 3-bedroom apartment for one week; Napa for 2 couples – 4 nights; Napa for 2 nights in a 4-bedroom winery “ranch house”; Sonoma for 2 couples – 3 nights; South Africa photo-safari for 4 for a week; Santa Fe Wine & Chile Festival for 2 for 3 nights with air; three Michigan travel lots.

Grand dinner lots, including: Grosse Pointe Yacht Club and Jazz for 8; Mon Jin Lau for 6; da Edoardo for 8; Café Cortina for 8; Cuisine Restaurant for 8; Coach Insignia for 8; Gastronomy for 8; No VI Chophouse for 4; Flemings for 10; Local Kitchen for 8; diners in private homes for 8-12 in West Bloomfield and 2 in Grosse Pointe, with superb wines, plus one dinner in your own home with a private chef and wines.

Raffle of stay in Napa (for 2 couples and visits – 2 nights, or for 1 couple – 4 nights)

Wines from all over the world and fabulous vintages, such as 1959 Chateau Lafite Rothschild; 1998 Chateau d’Yquem; Araujo 2007 Dalla Valle Maya, vintages of Fleury, Pride Mountain Vineyards, Gaja, J L Chave, Dominus, Dunn, Axios, Leonetti, Peter Michael, Turley, Chateau Lynch Bages, Vega-Sicilia Unico and Ports. And in sizes up to 9.0L (12 bottles-in-one!)

05/18/2012

HOT LOTS!

Friday night May 18 at the Vintner Dinner Bacco Ristorante

Pride Mountain Vineyards stay – 2 couples for 2 nights stay their guest cottage.

Two grand dinner lots – both at Bacco Ristorante. One for 8, with Cult wines, as determined by the level of the generous bidding that night, and the other for 12 with wines provided by one of the ANFS past Honorary Vintners, Vicki and Tom Celani.

Wines such as the very rare dry white wine from Chateau d’Yquem, plus Sauternes, Barolos and super-super Tuscans, plus cult wines like The Maiden, Dalla Valle and Araujo.

Large bottles (double magnums and larger) of Honorary Vintner Flora Springs, plus Celani Family Vineyards and Pride Mountain Vineyards.

05/11/2012

Our 2012 A Night for Sight Auction Catalog is online at www.anfs.org. Take a peak - our generous donors have once again opened their hearts to support the Mission of Alliance for Vision Research. If you have not gotten your tickets for next Saturday evening, you may still get them on our website. Please join us!

ANFS - A Night for Sight charity wine auction (ANFS) is sponsored by the Alliance for Vision Research with a mission to restore, preserve, and improve vision primarily in children.

05/11/2012

http://www.plummarket.com/wine/index/flora-springs-chateau-des-karantes-two-friends-from-across-the-pond.html

This event will open our 2012 A Night for Sight. Please join us next Thursday 5/17 to meet this year's Honorary Vintners at Cru Winebar in Plum Market West Bloomfield.

We’ll taste a wide range of from both these fine Napa and French wineries. They are honorary vintners for the Night for Sight benefit for vision impairment taking place at The Ford Conference Center on Saturday, May 19th. All ticket sales will be donated

04/19/2012

400 items and counting! Going to be a beautiful auction on May 19th!

04/06/2012

New book out and available at most booksellers. Thanks to our section editors and ~70 esteemed authors for making this massive project a reality.

http://www.springer.com/medicine/ophthalmology/book/978-1-4614-0970-0
Smith and Nesi’s Ophthalmic Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery
www.springer.com
Smith and Nesi’s Ophthalmic Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Third Edition has taken the best of the field’s classic reference text and expanded upon it, continuing its reputation as the foremost guide to the subspecialty. Every ...

Smith and Nesi’s Ophthalmic Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Third Edition has taken the best of the field’s classic reference text and expanded upon it, continuing its reputation as the foremost guide to the subspecialty. Every ...

04/03/2012

Wonderful ophthalmologists like Dr. Pandya who value history, vision, and determination in order to improve, restore & preserve vision, increase our commitment to grow A Night for Sight each year to fund vital ophthalmological research.
Please read this great article by Dr. Pandya.

Have you ever considered asking yourself, “What would keep me from practicing ophthalmology?” Take a moment to reflect on this. Very few would contest that obtaining a residency in ophthalmology is highly competitive, requiring approximately a decade of your time, and placing demands on your persona...