Anonymous
Montecito Bank & Trust Chairman and CEO, Janet Garufis, is part of a team of community leaders from Santa Barbara currently taking part in the 2017 Summit for Danny International Climb, trekking the Dolomites in Italy. Today (July 5th) is their fourth day of a 10-day journey, where Ms. Garufis and her fellow hikers will climb over 70 miles and reach heights of 9,724 feet on Summit Day!
Led by Bob and Patty Bryant, the International Summit for Danny Climbs have been taking place since 1999. Since then, over $2.6 million dollars has been raised to support the Council on Alcoholism and Drug Abuse (CADA) Daniel Bryant Youth & Family Center. The Center, named after Bob’s son who died of a drug overdose, is home to CADA’s youth treatment programs for teens struggling substance abuse. More than 5,500 teens have been served by the Center since it opened in 2001.
This is Ms. Garufis’ first International Climb, but she has been involved with CADA and firmly believes in the non-profits mission of ‘creating a safer and healthier community.”
Past International Summit for Danny Climbs have taken hikers to Mt. Kilimanjaro, the Canadian Arctic, Peru’s 20,000 ft. Mount Pisco, Ecuador, Bhutan, Patagonia, Mont Blanc, Bosnia, New Zealand, the historic Camino de Santiago, Spain and Norway.
Additional hikers taking part in this year’s climb include: Sally Arnold, Michelle Berti, Shannon and Laurie Bryant, Bill Burke, Carolyn Chandler, Dennis Forster, Carol Green, Peter Hilf, Carol-Anne Lonson, Linda Lorenzen, Bill and Kristi Parish, Andrea Pighetti, Margot Roseman, Cynder Sinclair, Ed Stonefelt, Marie Ann Straight.
All climber are responsible for paying their way, and raising a minimum donation, so every dollar contributed by the public goes directly to CADA’s Daniel Bryant Youth & Family Center.
To find out more, support the team or an individual hiker, go to www.SFDInternational.org.
