She could have been one of those event chairs who just phone it in, but Roselyn Saunders figured if she was to expect 10 amateur terpsichores to be brave enough to cut a rug at Dancing for the Kids At The Silver Bell Ball, she’d better get with the program herself.
So while Eula Adams, Laura Moore, Joanna Canals, Holly Kylberg, Sean McNicholas, Penny Parker, Stephanie Riggs, Nancy Sevo, Leigh Sullivan-Guard and John David Tynan were rehearsing their moves with the pros from Colorado Dancesport, Roselyn was perfecting her foxtrot with partner Toby Munroe.
“We’re going to do it at the very beginning of the evening, not in the competition,” Roselyn reports. “Just to liven things up.”
While she knew the basics of the dance, fine-tuning it with a pro required a bit of work. “This has not been easy,” she says. “I hurt in places I didn’t know could ache.”
Dancing for the Kids, a benefit for Mount St. Vincent Home, takes place Thursday at the Adam’s Mark Hotel. Roselyn’s co-chairs are Karen Bye and Chris Kelley; Jeannie and Gov. Bill Ritter are the honorary chairmen.
The goal is to raise $1 million.
At the Nov. 15 patron party held at Janet Elway’s home, Henry Block from Quality Mitsubishi drove up in the Eclipse GT Spyder convertible that will be auctioned at the gala; it was also announced that an anonymous benefactor had donated $100,000 to build a football field for the abused and neglected children being cared for at Mount St. Vincent’s.
Other good news
Lupo Gallery Fine Jewelry, 1512 Larimer St., is donating a portion of all sales Wednesday to Excelsior Youth Center. The store opens at 10 a.m. Nine10Arts, a creative community of 17 studios and eight live/work lofts located at 910 Santa Fe Drive, is hosting a Holiday Open Studios sale Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Starting at noon each day, there will be whimsical to serious pieces of art for sale, all at affordable prices The Denver-based Now I Lay Me Down To Sleep Foundation was the subject of a very touching story in the Nov. 21 Los Angeles Times; it followed Littleton photographer Sandy Puc’ as she chronicled the still birth of Gina and Rob Harris’ son, who had been diagnosed in utero with a fatal kidney disorder called Potter’s syndrome. A link to the piece is at the foundation website, .
