Community Corner
Scarboroughs Host 'Get Wild' Benefit Saturday
Sharon Kerr, Howard Lorber and Kim Renk Dryer are the honorees at the Evelyn Alexander Wildlife Rescue Center of the Hamptons fundraiser.
To benefit the injured animals at the Evelyn Alexander Wildlife Rescue Center of the Hamptons, NBC 4 New York news anchor Chuck Scarborough and wife Ellen are hosting a fundraiser at their Southampton Village home Saturday.
Dubbed "Get Wild," the fundraiser at their estate that fronts Lake Agawam will honor three animal advocates and financial supporters, Sharon Kerr, Howard Lorber and Kim Renk Dryer.
Kerr was the co-chair of Wildlife Conservation Gala at the Central Park Zoo in 2012, the same year she first become involved with the Wildlife Rescue Center, according to a statement from the center. Kerr called to report a deer entangled in wire, and center volunteers responded to free it.
Lorber, who is the chairman of the Southampton Hospital Foundation board and a member of other nonprofit boards, became a generous supporter of the center since being introduced by Leslie Alexander, the center stated.
Alexander, the owner of the Houston Rockets and Société du Vin in Bridgehampton, is another big supporter of the center's mission. In fact, it was renamed the Evelyn Alexander Wildlife Rescue Center for his mother.
Dryer is the co-owner of Sequin, a jewelry line that has a popup shop in Southampton Village, and the founder of a rabbit rescue sanctuary in Rhode Island.
Swedish Culinary Summer is catering the event with a vegetarian menu by Swedish chef Jonas Dahlbom and local chef Peter Ambrose of Food For Forks Catering.
The benefit is from 6 to 8 p.m. June 22. Tickets are $300 per person, though larger donations are welcome. Call Linda Shapiro at 631-725-2023 or the Wildlife Rescue Center at 631-728-WILD.
