St. Anthony Health Foundation, along with AEG Live and 97.3 KBCO, are bringing singing sensations Sheryl Crow and Amos Lee to perform for Flight For Life Colorado’s 40th anniversary and KBCO’s 35th anniversary on Oct. 6 at the 1STBANK Center in Broomfield.
Funds will go toward a new helicopter for Flight For Life with enhanced high-altitude capabilities. Tickets: 866-461-6556 or at www.tickethorse.com
In addition to the rockin’ concert, AEG Live, air jordan 4 femmes St. Anthony Health Foundation and KBCO are hosting Rocky Mountain Ransom on Wednesday where local notables will be delivered to a nearby mountaintop with a cell phone and asked to raise $100,000 each for Flight For Life before they can be rescued from the mountain.
Personalities include KBCO DJ Bret Saunders, AEG Live president and CEO Chuck Morris, Denver restaurateur Frank Schultz, president and founding partner of Brownstein Hyatt Farber and Schreck Steve Farber (really? I think Steve is more country club than rugged country), founding partner of Springer and Steinberg Harvey Steinberg, president and CEO of Sage Hospitality Walter Isenberg, CEO of Downtown Denver Partnership Tami Door and medical director of St. Anthony Breast Center Raymond Mencini.
With that high-powered crowd out of pocket for a while, Denver could come to its demise.
“When I was approached by St Anthony’s to help with the 40th Anniversary of Flight For Life, I jumped at it,” said event organizer Morris. “They were unaware that my wife, Becky, was in a head-on crash in 1979, in Evergreen and was saved by the quick response of their first helicopter. She had a broken neck and other injuries which with the quick action and a long stay at St. Anthony’s she recovered. Helping organize the Rocky Mountain Ransom as well as the concert with Sheryl Crow and Amos Lee was the least Becky and I could do to pay back this unreal organization that has meant so much for not only the Morris Family but for the countless lives of so many Coloradans.”
Day of Giving
Bill Ficke, who served as Doug Moe’s assistant coach at the Nuggets, is holding the 2012 Day of Giving Tuesday at his Big Bill’s New York Pizza in Centennial, when visitors to his restaurant will be asked to contribute to the JoAnn B. Ficke Cancer Foundation in lieu of receiving a check for their meal.
After Bill’s wife, JoAnn, died from cancer in 2007, Bill formed the foundation that honors her, contributions from the Day of Giving go to the foundation, and the totals involved in the check presentations to Colorado-based cancer organizations have grown every year.
In December 2011, Foundation President Dan Ficke — Bill and JoAnn’s son who now is the assistant coordinator of basketball operations at Wake Forest — presented gifts totaling $120,000. The contributions included: $50,000 to the Rocky Mountain Bone Marrow Transplant Patience Assistance Fund that helps patients undergoing cancer treatment and their families; $30,000 to the Cancer League of Colorado to help local researchers working on lymphoma research; $30,000 to Rocky Mountain Cancer Assistance, which helped patients undergoing cancer treatment and their families, and $10,000 to Colorado Ovarian Cancer Alliance to help raise awareness and patient assistance.
Big Bill’s is at 8243 South Holly in Centennial, at the intersection of County Line Road and Holly, next to the McDonald’s. For more information, go to www.jbfcf.org.
Sage adds another eatery
The Westin Westminster recently opened Kachina Southwestern Grill, air jordan 4.5 femmes inside the old O’s space. The restaurant is the latest venture by Sage Restaurant Group, a Denver-based company that also owns and operates The Corner Office and Second Home in Denver.
Kachina Southwestern Grill is open seven days a week for breakfast, lunch and dinner, as well as for brunch on Saturdays and Sundays. Reservations and more information: 303-410-5000 or at www.kachinagrill.com.
Fly to fashion
Flight to Luxury Fashion Show, brought to you by Mariel women’s boutique in Cherry Creek North, promises to be the party of the year with a meet-and-greet by renowned fashion designer Sue Wong from 6 p.m. to midnight Friday at the Signature Flight Support Hangar Centennial Airport, 8001 S. InterPort Blvd., Englewood.
To purchase tickets to the event that will benefit the Boys & Girls Club of Metro Denver, go to www.flighttoluxury.com.
It’s Reggae, mon
Nuggets Coach George Karl and the Cancer Care Initiative are presenting the Original Wailers this Thursday at Infinity Park in Glendale.
Doors open at 5 p.m., music starts at 6.30 and the Wailers take the stage around 8.
The folks at Efficient Tickets have two tickets to give away, so the first person to e-mail me at penny@blacktie-llc.com gets them. Don’t delay!
Laugh for a cause
Join in raising money for one of the victims of the Aurora theater tragedy, Caleb Medley, who is one of Comedy Works’ new talent comics and part of its comedy family.
The event featuring Saturday Night Alive alum and movie star Rob Schneider starts at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday at the Comedy Works in the Landmark Village. Funds raised will help Medley with his medical bills and the medical bills of his wife, who had their first baby while he’s been recovering from his injuries.
For tickets; call 720-274-6800 or go to www.comedyworks.com.
The seen
Dandy Denver real estate agent Ken Mendelsberg having his picture snapped with NBC football commentators Bob Costas and Al Michaels staying at The Four Seasons and hanging out at EDGE Restaurant & Bar on Saturday before Sunday’s Broncos-Steelers game.
Caption: Bob Costas, Ken Mendelsberg.
Another EDGE-y tidbit
EDGE Restaurant & Bar in The Four Seasons Hotel Denver is offering a new twice-daily happy hour. Every day, from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. and from 11 p.m. to close, EDGE will offer a separate happy hour menu with $5 house red and white wines, $5 prosecco, and Coors Light Draft for $3. A selection of half-price appetizers also is featured.
More information: http://www.edgerestaurantdenver.com/menus/happy_hour/.
Eavesdropping on a man talking about getting a speeding ticket: “How do they expect me to pay attention to the speed limit when I’m answering my e-mails?”
Did you hear that I have a new column, “Mile High Life,” in Colorado Community Media’s 17 weekly newspapers circling Denver? Be sure to like my Facebook page! Also, here’s where you go to get my column emailed to you Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. I’m now the social-media liaison for the Mile High Chapter of the Colorado Restaurant Association, so read my latest restaurant news there. My email: penny@blacktie-llc.com.
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