CBS hit series “Undercover Boss” enters its second season with a laundry list of execs, including Bryan Bedford, board chairman, president and chief executive of Republic Airways, parent company of Frontier Airlines.
The show featuring Bedford is already in the can, reports Frontier spokeswoman Lindsey Purves. “We don’t know when it will run, but it won’t be the season premiere (at 9 p.m. Sept. 26 on CBS 4).”
Frontier has its hub in Denver.
“Bryan saw this as a great opportunity for him to do something that most CEOs don’t get the opportunity to do, which is really go undercover in the operation,” Purves said. “With everything that the company has been through in the last three years with bankruptcy, being purchased by Republic and now integrating with Midwest Airlines, Bryan thought it was extremely important for him to experience what life is like for our front-line employees, and learn first-hand what can be done to improve things for our customers and our guests.”
Bedford joins this season’s executives from the Chicago Cubs, Lucky Strike Lanes, NASCAR, Chiquita Brands International, DirecTV and Great Wolf Resorts in rolling up their sleeves and doing the dirty work.
Fiesta.
The Consulate General of Mexico organized a celebration commemorating the 200th anniversary of Mexico’s independence Wednesday at the Arvada Center for Arts and Humanities.
More than 200 VIPs attended and witnessed the traditional ceremony of “El Grito,” the battle cry of the Mexican War of Independence.
Seen at the soiree: Eduardo Arnal, consul general of Mexico; Veronica Barela, executive director for Newsed; Denver City Councilman Paul Lopez; Denver Police Division Chief David Quinones; Zee Ferrufino, owner of KBNO Radio; Romaine Pacheco, representing Sen. Michael Bennet‘s office; Tony Lopez , Denver police commander of District 6; and Fernando Sergio, news director/radio host for KBNO Radio.
Hot hotels.
Three Colorado resort hotels were included on Travel + Leisure’s World’s Best Family Hotels and Cruises list.
They were: Ritz-Carlton Bachelor Gulch at No. 10, Vail Cascade Resort at No. 20 and The Broadmoor in Colorado Springs No. 46. For the complete list, go to .
Medalist.
Jeff Baker, head of the Colorado Field Office for the U.S. Department of Energy, has won the Samuel J. Heyman Service to America Medal for Science and the Environment.
“Baker led the design and construction of the world’s largest net-zero energy office building, a 220,000-square-foot structure in Golden,” according to a story in The Washington Post. “Net-zero means the building generates as much or more energy than it uses.”
Baker was given the award from first lady Michelle Obama.
Eavesdropping
sent in by a reader: “I almost got sideswiped by a guy on a bicycle with chrome sissy bars who was talking on his cellphone. And had a beer in his water bottle holder! Who needs laws against texting and driving cars?”
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