After 50 years in the garlic business Don Christopher still
comes up smelling like roses.
Posing under the garlic wreath spelling out the number 50, Don
and Karen Christopher smiled and greeted their guests at the
Christopher Ranch Annual Holiday Party last Saturday afternoon.
After 50 years in the garlic business Don Christopher still comes up smelling like roses.
Posing under the garlic wreath spelling out the number 50, Don and Karen Christopher smiled and greeted their guests at the Christopher Ranch Annual Holiday Party last Saturday afternoon.
Friends, business partners, employees, past employees, and some fresh faces from the Boot Barn gathered in the large warehouse at the Christopher Ranch Packing Facility.
Their goal was to help the Christopher Family celebrate its golden business anniversary.
Mike Rauschnot, childhood friend of Bill Christopher, won my nomination for best dressed.
He sported his camel colored ostrich boots and starched Roy Rogers style western shirt (loved the striped piping and pearlized snaps!).
Garlic bread and pepper steak sandwiches carefully prepared by Chef Val Filice filled the afternoon plates.
I held myself back from devouring a whole loaf of the tasty garlic bread although I noticed a few plates piled high with the aromatic bread. The delicious smell pulled more and more guests into the party, including some aromatic salesmen representing the fertilizer and pesticide industry.
Mike German and Peter Alaga of Dune Company don’t accept all invitations. As they explained, they did refuse the invite to go fishing with their colleague in the business, Scott Peterson (they said it not me – I only quote from the best).
Making her second appearance in this column is Celeste Zamzow, who worked the aisles of the Christopher party greeting friends and catching up on local news.
My lunch conversation settled into a long discussion with Tad (not Ted!) Christopher.
Tad is the son of Robert and Ginny Christopher and Don’s grandson, about his recent bit-acting part in his brother Jason Christopher’s senior film project.
Jason is a film student at Chapman College. Jason collaborated with his father, Robert, on the screenplay of a film short titled, “Leaving it All Behind.”
The film is a period piece set in medieval times and shot over two weekends with a 40-person crew.
The story follows the life of a warrior who is injured in battle and found by a young girl and her grandfather.
The warrior makes a slow recovery with the help of the girl and her woodsman grandfather.
But he battles with the decision to stay and help the family who helped him or to go out and battle the evils in the woods.
Jason explained during a phone interview from Southern California that he sees the story as an allegory of what he feels as he contemplates graduation.
Should he stay in Los Angeles to pursue his battle into the film industry or return to his family up north.
The woodsman grandfather he sees as a character similar to his own grandfather, Don Christopher, who he misses greatly.
We hope to see the film shown locally soon!
Ciao for now.
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