When faced with a camera from one of the local news stations, state Treasurer Cary Kennedy keeps as cool as a proverbial cucumber.
But when “Antiques Roadshow” rode into town to film Kennedy and the state’s stash of unclaimed property, she switched to sweat.
“When they were filming in the treasury office, they were putting the microphone on me,” Kennedy said. “Mark (hottie host) Walberg said, ‘Gee, Cary, you don’t look very nervous.’ I said, ‘I’m used to talking to Channel 9 or 4 on camera.’ He said, ‘You do know that we have 11 million viewers?’ That put a little sweat on my forehead. That’s an awfully big audience.”
But the chance to put the state program in front of “an awfully big audience” was a priceless opportunity.
“This will probably be more successful than any marketing campaign we could do,” Kennedy said.
Walberg and appraiser Peter Shemonsky discovered several orphaned gems stashed in the unclaimed property vault.
Anything valuable?
“You’ll have to find out on April 5,” she said. The show airs from 7 to 8 p.m. on KRMA-Channel 6.
PR pro.
Friends of Don Cannalte gathered Wednesday on the Anschutz Medical Campus in Aurora to fete him for “50 years of leadership and dedication to the public-relations profession.”
The event invitation also said, “Back in the day, they used typewriters and the Pony Express to deliver the news. Not to be left behind, Don is now a social media maven: Tweeting, blogging and telling stories online with eloquence and charm (OK, so he may not Tweet)…”
Cannalte’s resume includes: founder and president of Colorado Notebook LLC and serving as a PR/media-relations consultant to the health care industry, higher-education institutions and nonprofits.
For 17 years, he was the director of university relations for CU’s four-campus system and was regional director for the CU Health Sciences Center. Before CU, he spent 21 years with United Airlines’ communications department.
Restaurant roulette.
So you think you want to open a restaurant? If you can sell your idea during the Denver casting call of “America’s Next Great Restaurant,” a new NBC competition series, you might win the chance to stick your fork in the eatery business.
Auditions take place from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. April 1 at Chipotle, 2760 S. Colorado Blvd. Preregister online at . Bring the application and a photo ID, plus any props (edible or otherwise) that would help your pitch. No cooking or restaurant experience required.
Finalists will compete in front of celebrated chef and restaurateur Bobby Flay, plus other famous foodie faces who will invest in the three-store chain.
The Seen. Singer Shawn “Jay-Z” Carter with his superstar wife, Beyonce dined with rocker Richard “Dickey” Betts and sommelier Robert Bohr at Frasca Food & Wine in Boulder on Monday after a Pepsi Center concert. Associated Press file photo
Eavesdropping
on a 10-year-old to his stepdad: “Why do you listen to talk radio if it makes you so mad?”
“You’re right. I’m gonna turn it off so you and I can have a conversation.”
“Uhhhh . . . I think I’d rather you listen to talk radio.”
Penny Parker’s column appears Tuesday, Thursday, Friday or Sunday. Listen to her on the Caplis and Silverman radio show between 4 and 5 p.m. Fridays on KHOW-AM (630). Call her at 303-954-5224 or e-mail pparker@denverpost.com.
