Teddy Bear Picnic scheduled for May 21 at Montecito Club

By MARILYN MCMAHON NEWS-PRESS STAFF WRITER

Teddy Bear Cancer Foundation’s third annual Teddy Bear Picnic is set for May 21 at the upper lawn of the Montecito Club, 920 Summit Road in Montecito. It is one of TBCF’s two signature fundraising events and celebrates the nonprofit’s focus on community, family and support.

The event offers a variety of activities including a competitive Cornhole Tournament with prizes, lawn games, a sledding hill, sack races, henna tattoos, face painting and a photo booth inside a vintage VW Bus provided by Traveling Photo Bus. Other activities include floral crown making, wine pulls, jewelry pulls, drawings and live music by Josh Jenkins.

Guests can purchase tickets at teddybearcancerfoundation.org/ picnic. Tickets are $125 each for table seats or $75 to be seated on a blanket on the lawn and $50 for children under 12.

Attendees will be treated to a buffet-style picnic lunch from the Montecito Club, ice cream from Dave’s Drip House and wine poured by Brittany Rice, winemaker at Sunstone Winery and owner of Millesime Cellars. All activities (excluding the Cornhole Tournament) are included with each ticket purchase.

Sofie Langhorne and Deborah Stanley, both of whom sit on the TBCF’s board of directors and are event sponsors, will co-chair the Teddy Bear Picnic.

“I love that this is a family-