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The La Cañada Flintridge Educational Foundation’s third annual Wine Auction, held at the home of Chris and Christi Matarese, featured a sellout crowd of 270 local residents and raised a record-setting $145,000 to benefit the LCFEF Endowment Fund. Bob Cooper and Chris Davis served as wine auction chairs and Emily Woods, Joleen O’Brien and Jennifer Ferry were the event’s co-chairs. Rob Olson, Teresa Butier, Andrineh Ghazarian, Leslie Chang, Dan Thorman, Andrew Johnsen, Andrew Rea and auctioneer Mike Goldberg also played key roles in the fundraiser’s success. Caroline Anderson serves as LCFEF president and Marilyn Yang is the organization’s executive director.