SG&S is proud to announce the following events:

SG&S employees participated in the Heritage Museum "Volunteer Day"
April 24, 2010

The Heritage Museum celebrated its 25th anniversary by gathering 20 companies, including SGS employees and 358 volunteers donated their time and talents to work projects. 31 organizations provided material and/or financial resources. Work included restoration labor on two Victorian Homes, gardening, constructing, painting, and much more.

About the Heritage Museum: The Heritage Museum is a nonprofit organization, which sits on 12 acres of floral gardens featuring Victorian structures and artifacts from the 1890s and early 1900s. Approximately 20,000 school children annually visit the facility, and experience life in Orange County at the turn of the 20th Century with hands-on-activities. More details about the museum at www.heritagemuseumoc.org

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Samuels, Green & Steel, LLP 7th Annual Adopt-a-Class Event

On January 15, 2010, SGS Partners sponsored 47 second-grade students from San Onofre Elementary School to an adventure on the R/V Sea Explorer at the Ocean Institute in Dana Point. These are students whose parents serve our Country in the Military.

Bill Steel, Partner at SGS, along with staff and attorneys from the firm joined the students to see marine birds, sea lions and dolphins. The experience included examining the benthic and pelagic habitats by deploying oceanographic sampling equipment to collect a variety of marine specimens including plankton and species who make their home in the mud.

This field trip is a great opportunity for the children to learn about the ocean and its inhabitants first hand. It is also a great experience for the firm and its employees to join the children on this adventure each year.

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SG&S Blue Whale Watching 2009 - Ocean Institute in Dana Point

This exciting cruise excursion took us to the open Pacific waters searching for the large California Gray Whale. A certified marine biologist guided us through this tour as we spotted not only one; but also three Grey Whales in their natural environment, incredibly exciting!!

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SG&S supports the following programs:

American Heart Association, GO Red for Women- National Wear Red Day
Passionately Pink for the Cure for Breast Cancer Awareness
Sneakers at Work Day for Prostate Cancer Awareness

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Samuels, Green & Steel, LLP's 5th Annual Ocean Institute Adopt-a-Class Event

Spending half a day with curious Elementary School students on the R/V Sea Explorer is an Annual Event that SG&S sponsors and looks forward to each year. The kids are delighted learning about sea creatures and cruising on a research vessel off of the coast of Dana Point. For many of these children this is their first experience out on the ocean.

The attorneys and staff in our office take the morning off and led by Bill Steel, Partner of SG&S and Chair of the Ocean Institute's Board of Directors, spend 4 hours with these young explorers sharing their adventures in experiencing the ocean and its amazing inhabitants. The goal is to give these children an opportunity to learn about marine life and the environmental to protect and care for our oceans and the variety of creatures that live there.

The thank you letters from the children after the event speak volumes. To quote some of their experiences:

"I like the ocean water splashing up on me."

"I learned there are two kinds of plankton; zooplankton and phytoplankton."

"I liked the Peterson Grab because the sea mud touched the ocean floor and I saw a sea worm!"

"My favorite part was watching the dolphins and sea lions. It was the best thing ever!"

This Adopt a Class event was held on Tuesday, December 11, 2007.

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SG&S was pleased to be one of the sponsors of the OCCHC's The Lantern Lighting the Path Event on September 28, 2006 at the Grove of Anaheim honoring Murray L. Zoota, the retiring President and CEO of Fremont Investment & Loan.

The purpose of The Lantern is to raise support for OCCHC's Stepping UP Program, a program designed to encourage low-income families to improve and continue their education, job skills, health care and financial literacy in an effort to achieve self-sufficiency. The 2006 Lantern awarded partial college scholarships to 10 at-risk students to encourage higher education.

SG&S was pleased to be one of the sponsors of the Village of Hope/AJGA Charity Golf Tournament on August 8, 2006, at Coto de Caza Country Club.

The Orange County Rescue Mission's Village of Hope project is a unique facility located on the former Tustin Marine Base. Its mission is to help homeless families. The planned opening of this facility is late 2006.