Dealin’ Doug first to win Champions of Hope
You can’t turn on the TV without hearing how “Nobody beats a Dealin’ Doug deal, nobody.” And you can’t have a Cancer League fundraiser without realizing how nobody beats the support offered by Doug Moreland and his family. Nobody.
Moreland may dress up like Superman or a member of the Colorado Rockies for his advertising spots, but when it comes to raising cancer research dollars, the colorful auto dealer is serious.
Every year for the past 20 years, he and his colleagues from the Front Range Chrysler Jeep Dealers have donated a new car for Cancer League members to raffle off; he also sponsors other league fundraisers like the recent ski outing at Loveland Ski Area and the upcoming Over the Edge, where participants pay $1,000 to rappel off the 1600 Glenarm building in downtown Denver.
Merely saying “thank you” didn’t seem enough, so when members established the Champions of Hope Award, there was no debate as to who the first recipient should be. Moreland, and his family, accepted the honor at CLC’s 2011 Hope Ball, a black-tie dinner, auction and dance chaired by Marsha Lunnon and Linda Goto, and held at the Hyatt Regency Tech Center.
“This means the world to us,” Moreland said, “and those words come from the bottom of my heart.”
7News meterologist Mike Nelson emceed the gala and helped CLC president Gary Reece welcome a crowd that included honorary chair Kaye Music and her husband, Monte; ticket chairwomen Lisa Williams and Arlene Mohler Johnson; photographer Ron White and his wife, Karen, the CLC’s president-elect; Glenna Hale, president of the CLC Foundation; Larry Mizel; Alfred Williams, who has been a tackle for the CU Buffs and Denver Broncos; Lorraine Salazar; Dick and Jeanne Saunders; Brad, Cathy, Parker and Ashleigh Rothhammer; Kathleen Kelble; Jeri Zbylski; Diego and Leita Garcia; and artist Eva Makk, whose oil painting, Rue Royale Paris, sold for $22,000 in the live auction. The buyers: Brian and Luda Savage.
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