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Posted Wednesday, May 7th, 2008 by Bruce at the BOEC
The 25th Annual Cinco de Mayo Celebration was a huge success. Hosted by Mi Casa Restaurant, over 350 guests enjoyed an amazing buffet of gourmet mexican food, great tunes by Doc PJ and the Three Amigos, a wide arrray of items to bid on in the silent auction, and, of course, a few margaritas.
Proceeds come to the BOEC’s Willie Whalen Fund and we hope to have bought in $20,000. So far the talley is looking good to make that mark.
Many thanks to Dick Carleton, Tracey Roach, Julie Ludwig, and all the Mi Casa staff for making this such a fun and rewarding event. The proceeds greatly help the BOEC to deliver our services to people with disabilities and those in financial need. Also many thanks to BOEC staff and volunteers for pitching in.
We can’t wait until next year and the 26th Annual CInco de Mayo!
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Posted Monday, April 7th, 2008 by Bruce at the BOEC
Why a new website? We have greatly benefited from our website over the past eight years but all things must change, particularly as web technology changes. The new website grew out of the need to update the navigation, build in the ability for BOEC to make changes ourselves, to create a more responsive and dynamic site and to create a community networking section that will allow our users to communicate with us and with each other. The new website was designed by timeforcake, based right here in Frisco (www.timeforcake.com). eRin Pheil and Josh Petrucci have done a great job to create a site that BOEC can directly manage, works very well and and looks very nice. Many thanks to timeforcake!
Many thanks to Breckcomm, the web company who created and hosted our previous website. Scott Esmond and the staff at Breckcomm donated time and services for many years and we greatly appreciate their efforts.
We hope you will enjoy the new look and all the changes. Let us know what you think.
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Posted Friday, April 4th, 2008 by Bruce at the BOEC
The sixth Annual Breckebeiner 60 km Ski-a-thon happened on March 29th. Over 200 skiers and guests enjoyed great ski conditions and a great party with music provided by Gene Dayton’s accordion, Helmut’s Alpine horn and Doc PJ’s sound system. The food was great–pasta salad provided by the Hearthstone, green salad from Peak Provisions, beer from the Breckenridge Brewery, along with burgers and dogs and the rest. The theme was south pacific with palm trees and leis everywhere. Justin took total km honors at 120. Many others skiied the 60 km solo or as part of a team. It was all great fun and turning into an annual event that can’t be missed by locals. A great way to end the ski season.
Many thanks to Gene and Therese Dayton for hosting and working so hard to bring this event about, to volunteer coordinator Jim Anderson, to staff Bob Bond, Melissa Kuwahara and Jaime Benthin for their hard work, to volunteers Don Sullivan, Chris Cares, Doug Sullivan, Aris Sophocles and Laura Metz. And thanks to all of you who came to ski, to party and to support the work of the BOEC!
Mark your calendars for next year, the last Saturday in March.
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