Bureau Bash

The Children’s Bureau celebrated summer with an ultimate clambake for more than 200 guests at Irvine’s Oak Creek Golf Club. In addition to those sweet spiny sea creatures, partygoers indulged in cocktails, steak and lobster as they marveled at elaborate sand sculptures. (And let’s not forget about the make-your-own s’mores.) A live auction kept things upbeat, along with dancing at sunset. The bash raised $144,000, all of which will go toward the aid of at-risk families throughout Orange County. Now those are some big clams! Photos by Danielle Klebanow