Public Garden Gala to Raise Money for Brewer Fountain
The Friends of the Public Garden is holding its annual invitation-only gala this Friday.
The Friends of the Public Garden is hosting its annual gala Friday night and this year the money raised will go toward the Boston Common Brewer Fountain renovation project. Usually called the Green and White Ball, the event has been renamed the "40th Anniversary Gala" this year and will be held at luxury hotel Taj Boston on Arlington St., right next to the Public Garden. The gala was inaugurated in 1996, said Elizabeth Vizza, executive director of the Friends of the Public Garden, an organization that partners with the City's Parks Department to maintain the Public Garden, the Common and the Commonwealth Avenue Mall. Over the course of the last six years "the proceeds from the Green and White Ball brought in $2 million," said …
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