Rochelle Barcellona Named President of Northern California Personal Chef Association

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2012Chef Rochelle Barcellona, aka Chef Ro, owner of Barcellona Bites, has been named the president of the Northern California Personal Chef Association.

Sacramento, CA (1888PressRelease) May 02, 2012 - Chef Rochelle Barcellona, aka Chef Ro, owner of Barcellona Bites, has been named the president of the Northern California Personal Chef Association, a chapter of the United States Personal Chef Association (USPCA).

"The USPCA is pleased and excited about the selection of Chef Ro as chapter president of the Northern California Chapter and look forward to her bringing her leadership and experience to this group of successful personal chefs," notes Vince Likar, USPCA Executive Director.

According to Barcellona, she will promote the chapter's mission to connect individuals and families in Northern California with professional personal chefs and actively promote the personal chef industry by educating the public and supporting the association's members. "I'm honored to accept this leadership position and excited about working with the other personal chefs in the chapter," says Barcellona.

Barcellona began Barcellona Bites in 2009 after graduating top-of-her-class in culinary school and becoming a certified personal chef from the USPCA. In addition to her personal chef service, Barcellona is webmaster of www.WeeklyMenuClub.com, an online menu planning service.

To contact Barcellona Bites, visit www.BarcellonaBites.com or call 916-353-5200. For more information on the personal chef association and USPCA, visit www.norcaluspca.com and www.uspca.com.

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Muscular Dystrophy Association show leaving Vegas

A year after the Muscular Dystrophy Association telethon split with comedian and longtime host Jerry Lewis, the Labor Day weekend show is leaving Las Vegas.

An official at the South Point Hotel Casino & Spa, where the event was held last year without Lewis, said Friday that association executives had decided to move it to the Los Angeles area.

"Last year the MDA made us aware they were looking to make a change, so the recent news comes as no surprise," resort marketing chief Tom Mikovits told The Associated Press. "We are proud to have hosted the Labor Day Telethon for the last six years and we wish the MDA all the best in the future."

Hotel owner Michael Gaughan told a Las Vegas Review-Journal columnist that the show would be shortened to three hours and broadcast from CBS studios in Culver City, Calif. Gaughan was traveling and unavailable Friday.

"The show is being put together," said Roxan Olivas, a Muscular Dystrophy Association spokeswoman in Tucson, Ariz. She declined to provide details.

A spokeswoman for Lewis said the entertainer and host of the telethon for more than four decades was traveling, and probably wouldn't comment about the MDA move.

"He has not discussed the telethon since last year, when he had no comment," spokeswoman Candi Cazau said.

Lewis turned 86 on March 16 and lives in Las Vegas. He was MDA national chairman from the early 1950s to 2011. He started the Labor Day Muscular Dystrophy Association telethon in 1966 with a nearly 22-hour show at a single TV station in New York.

The event moved to Las Vegas in 1973, and had stints in Los Angeles before moving to Gaughan's hotel.

Lewis' absence last year ended a 45-year run in which officials credit him with raising $1.66 billion for research and aid for those living with of the degenerative inherited muscular disease.

Despite Lewis' absence, telethon officials reported raising $61.5 million last Sept. 4 in a six-hour show with several hosts. A silent montage of Lewis film clips was shown, but he didn't take part in person or tape his signature song, "You'll Never Walk Alone."

Lewis, who once teamed with comedian Dean Martin, grew into a film icon with antics and characters including the "Nutty Professor."

He was nominated in 1977 for a Nobel Peace Prize for his work with the telethon and muscular dystrophy relief.

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