Recent Blues Fundraiser At Joe Buck's Restaurant Was Shoulder To Shoulder

If rubbing elbows with the hockey players of the St. Louis Blues is your idea of a good time, you should have been at the Crombeen for A Cure Wine Sampling at Joe Buck’s Restaurant at the end of warm weather“Juneuary.”   Juvenile Diabetes Relief Fund is toasting their proceeds that are tipping upwards of $19,000.

Everyone sampled two hours fine Miner Family Vineyards wines (Napa Valley), a sports-heavy silent auction, the excitement of mingling with the entire Blues Hockey team and the opportunity to bring home a case or two of the wines you most enjoyed.

Blues star B.J. Crombeen – diagnosed with type 1 (insulin dependent) diabetes at the age of nine - and his wife Janet were the hosts for the shoulder-to-shoulder crowd including retired Cardinals’ center fielder Jim Edmonds, Laurie and Jim Theiss, JDRF Board President, Mary (Meme) and Johnny Londoff, Jr., board treasurer Bill Rowe, gubernatorial candidate David Spence, James Villeneuve, board member Emily Rapp and George Mahe, to name just a few.

JDRF’s mission is to improve the lives of people living with T1D (type 1 diabetes).  To date, JDRF has awarded more than $1.6 Billion to T1D research efforts that have helped or significantly improved the care of people with insulin dependent diabetes until a cure is found.

Information was provided by the JDRF Foundation.