Jean Cox of Vacaville won the 2025 Vacaville Museum Guild's Tea for 12. Cox, a member of the Vacaville Museum since 1984, helped organize the Museum Guild in 1984 and served as the Guild president from 1988-1990. She was named the Guild's first Volunteer of the Year. Photo courtesy of the Vacaville Museum Guild 

VACAVILLE, CA (MPG) – The Vacaville Museum Guild will sponsor its annual Dinner for Eight and Tea for Twelve, with the drawing to be held Friday, April 3.

This year’s Dinner for Eight will be hosted at the historic home of Frank and Leila McKevitt, built in 1930 on Buck Avenue. The experience will include a garden tour and cocktails. McKevitt, mayor of Vacaville from 1907 to 1908, co-founded Pinkham and McKevitt Fruit Co.

The Tea for 12 will be hosted in the garden of the famed Frank and Mary Steiger home on Buck Avenue. Steiger was a city engineer who designed the Main and McClellan Street bridges, the city sewer system and the Old Town Hall. 

Tickets for the drawing are $25 each. The winner will select their pick – the dinner or the tea – and the second-place winner will receive the other prize. Tickets can be purchased by phone 707-447-4513 or in person at the museum, 213 Buck Ave. For more information contact [email protected].

Gallery hours are 1 to 4:30 p.m. Thursday and Friday, and 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Saturday.

Proceeds will benefit the Vacaville Museum, 213 Buck Ave.