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The Park City Board of Realtors
Philanthropic Foundation raised a record amount of $96,000 for the Peace House,
an abused women's shelter through the 13th Annual Luxury Home
Tour of Park City held this year at Deer Crest in Deer Valley. The donated funds directly benefit
individuals and families struggling to break free from abusive environments in
Wasatch and Summit counties and have been used to create and fund a new advocacy
program for children of domestic abuse. For the first time, mothers and children
will be a focus in case management and safety planning.
The Park City Board of Realtors Philanthropic Foundation is the largest
foundation contributor to the Peace House each year and its over 13 year annual
event now provides approximately 25 percent of the total operating budget for
the Peace House. |
 Photo: The presentation of $96,000 from proceeds of the 13th
Annual Luxury Home Tour held at Deer Crest was made from
Vickie Burgess-Keene (committee chairperson) to Peace Houses Greg Mandelmen,
shelter director, Renee Wood, executive director and Janne Patton, office
manager. Grayson West/Park Record |
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Also a new record was the number of individuals involved in helping this
year, demonstrated by the increased community involvement, increase in local
company sponsors numbering more than 165 sponsors, The Park City Board of
Realtors more than 600 member board, the 215 volunteers, 40 Peace House
Volunteers, 26 Luxury Home Tour Committee Members, six
beautiful mountain estate homes and six Deer Crest homeowners and three local
ski areas.
In addition, the 2006 Luxury Home Tour Committee
announces the upcoming date for the 14th Annual Luxury Home
Tour of Park City being held next year at Promontory The Ranch Club to be
Saturday, Aug. 13.
The 2002 Luxury Home Tour visitor study showed the
market demographics for attendees visiting the Luxury Home
Tour to support The Peace House in 2002 to be 54 percent from Park City,
20 percent from out-of-state, 14 percent from Salt Lake City, and 12 percent
from other areas within Utah. Each year, the number of out-of-state,
second-homeowner attendees continual to increases from the growing popularity
seen in the Home Tour each year. Household incomes of attendees have shown to be
25 percent less than $100,000, 51 percent between $100 $250,000, 17 percent
between $250,000 $500,000 and 7 percent more than $500,000 in annual combined
household incomes.
(c) 2004 Park Record. All rights
reserved. Reproduced with the permission of Media NewsGroup, Inc. by NewsBank,
Inc.
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