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# Dinner and dance cooks up cash for families
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/dinner-and-dance-cooks-up-cash-for-families/
- Published: 2006-05-31T15:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-23T18:08:00.000Z
- Author: Guest Author
- Tags: Business, Venice, #archive-import

*By Daily Press staff*

The St. Joseph Center outdid itself May 20 by raising more than half a million dollars to service impovershed families in Venice and Santa Monica.

KTLA entertainment reporter Sam Rubin hosted the annual Dinner Dance at the Skirball Cultural Center, which attracted more than 450 Los Angeles business owners, professionals and community leaders.

Among those honored was Crecenciana Martinez, a graduate of the center’s vocational culinary training program. Martinez immigrated to the United States in 1992 from Oaxaca, Mexico. With her husband, she opened a restaurant in the Palms neighborhood of Los Angeles. Teachers re-elect union president

*Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on May 31, 2006.* [Read the original PDF.](https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/smdp%5Fbackissues/053106.pdf?ref=smdp.com)