Nothing like a nice, juicy steak to give you the energy to play a challenging course like Sanctuary. So guess what was served at the Players Party held at the Downtown Broker Restaurant the night before the annual golf tournament that raised $100,000 for Volunteers of America?
New York strips with all the trimmings.
Former relief pitcher Goose Gossage, a 2008 Baseball Hall of Fame inductee, was the special guest and delighted everyone with stories of a career that included a 1990 stint with the Fukoka Daiei Hawks of the Japan Pacific League.
CoBiz Insurance sponsored the Players Party; the tournament itself was presented by RE/MAX International, in cooperation with the Colorado Rockies Charity Fund.
MillerCoors, Ball Corp., PCL Construction, Meadow Homes and 5280 Magazine were among the corporations that organized foursomes; players included Dave Rye, chairman of the Volunteers of America board; Rich Anders of Jim Beam; John Babb of Holme Roberts Owen; bankers Rick Bruno (First Bank) and Pat Cortez (Wells Fargo); Dan Gallegos of Coors Distributing; and Scott Richards and Mike Sweeny of The Integer Group.
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Rescue horses Blackie and Moti will be standing by to greet those attending Saturday night’s Denim & Diamonds: The Mane Event. It’s a dinner benefiting Colorado Horse Rescue and executive director Hildy Armour says the goal is to make enough money to buy 200 tons of hay. Details about the 5:30 p.m. event at the Omni Interlocken Hotel can be found at . … The 13th Race4Research, honoring the memory of Michele Plachy-Rubin, comes down Sunday morning at Denver’s Washington Park. Register online at race4 . or at any Runners Roost or Running Wild store. … Keith Ashby of Denver and Michael Wells of Aspen are competing in the World Transplant Games that begin Saturday in Queensland, Australia. Ashby had a kidney transplant at University of Colorado Hospital in 2006; Wells’ liver transplant surgery was in 1999 at the University of Washington Hospital/Seattle. What makes Ashby’s procedure unique is that he is African-American and the donor, his stepson Johny Stell, is Caucasian. … Brooke Bansbach Maloy is chairing the Denver Botanic Gardens’ 25th Fete des Fleurs. The black-tie dinner and dance begins at 6:30 p.m. Aug. 28 at the gardens and admission is by invitation. … Jerry Kern and Mary Rossick Kern are hosting a 1960s-inspired Evening in Eden on Aug. 29 to raise money for the Institute for Children’s Mental Disorders. Guests will enjoy cocktails, a buffet supper and floral-themed auction in the botanical wonderland that surrounds the Kerns’ Castle Pines Village home. Tickets? Call the institute’s executive director, Steve Edmonds, 303-724-4955.
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