Golden Year at Valinor

It was all too heavenly for words when Dean Wilson, head honcho of the Turner Foundation, celebrated his half century at Valinor, the former St. Mary’s Seminary which sold for $7.618 million in December 2022, and is now a 35.69-acre retreat center, a tiara’s toss from the Santa Barbara Botanical Gardens.

More than 140 guests quaffed champagne and wine while noshing on jalapeño poppers, beef burritos and chimichangas.

Among the guests were singer Katy Perry’s parents, Keith and Mary Hudson, Rick Oshay and Teresa Kuskey, sheriff Bill Brown, John Daly, Mike Stoker, Johnny Mullen, John Davies, and Mark Sears.