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It is good to have friends in far-away places — at least if you like to travel. ; That’s what Vinnie Deluise and Heidi Morf, owners of Four and Twenty Blackbirds ip Flint Hill, discovered when they were invited to Singapore. ; A friend of theirs, Shelly Robbins, who lived in Bangkok, was helping Dr. Cjiye Peng organize a trendy American style charity dinner for World Alzheimer’s Day. ; Robbins quickly thought of her friends at Four and Twenty Blackbirds, and asked tljem to submit a menu. ; Robbins, an artist and designer by profession, sculpted the doll-size ceramic piece op the stand by the restau-/ rant’s front door, as well as/ other painted ceramic pieces1 0$ display there. j The Flint Hill couple was cliosen to prepare the $500-aptate dinner for 475 people. The rrfoney raised was given to facilities that care for Alzheimer’s patients in Singapore, Deluise s^id. | “The key to anything is being organized,” he said, and planning the dinner began six nfonths before by fax and telephone.
Deluise said the food available in Singapore, a city where
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