Janet Elway’s famous Janet’s Camp summer party is moving to a new site June 27.
The jamboree has been a great success for the past few years, attracting hundreds of people to her Cherry Hills manse to eat camp food, play camp games and generally get campy. Janet swam laps. Mike Shanahan did a one-and-a-half flip off the diving board — fully clothed.
The party raises money to send hundreds of kids to YMCA Summer Day Camp. But Janet downsized this past year, trading her 14,000-square-foot house in Cherry Hills for a 6,200- square-foot residence in Belcaro. The Cherry Hills house was on 2 1/2 acres. The Belcaro place is shoehorned onto a half-acre. And no pool.
And you can’t fit a few hundred peeps onto a half-acre. I know. I tried it in college.
A guy who wishes to be unnamed (for now) has made his big house available at 3 Bridle Path Lane in Cherry Hills Village. A visit to Google shows there’s plenty of room to party there.
Beer here!
Finally, Denver has a shot at some bragging rights. For the first time in its 13-year history, the Beerdrinker of the Year title may go to a Denverite and a regular at Wyn koop Brewing Co., the sponsor of the competition.
Cody Christman, who’s been at the Wynkoop every Friday afternoon since 1991, is one of the three left standing who could be named Beerdrinker of the Year. He’s a software engineer and beer educator in his basement, which features a 15-foot bar with seven taps.
In his application, Christman stated, “Everything I do, and every decision I make, revolves around beer. ”
The winner gets beer for life at the Wynkoop — which puts Christman in a nice spot if he wins.
The competition comes down at 2 p.m. Feb. 21 at Wynkoop. The panel of judges includes former Post columnist and epic beer drinker Dick “Mr. Beer” Kreck and 2008 Beerdrinker of the Year Matt Venzke.
Christman is ready. “I figure my chances are probably one in three.”
Margs.
KUSA-Ch. 9 “Colorado & Company” host Mark McIntosh doesn’t make lemonade out of lemons; he makes margaritas.
He’s the “Comeback Coach” — and the title of his new book, “Lemons Into Margaritas,” comes from a story he relates in the paperback, but it’s too involved to get into here. Let’s just say when things go really bad with your fiancee, the best thing to do is hit the road for a coupla years with your kid brother.
He tells me the book is filled with “inspiring stories and successful strategies to effectively deal with change, challenges and adversity.”
You can order the book at . And you can hear Mac talk it up at 5 p.m. Saturday at the Rocky Mountain Singles Summit at Highlands Masonic Center. Check it out at .
City spirit.
I took a tour of Holly Kylberg’s top floors of the D&F Tower at a Historic Denver party Tuesday night with nightclubber Paulina Szafranski. The cool space gave me vertigo — but I’d follow Kylberg and Szafranski off a cliff. . . . Sez who: “Remember, you’re not alone.” Mark McIntosh
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