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The GazetteNovember 25, 2014 | updated 12 years ago
Steve Scott, right, of Signature Homes by Steve Scott, and Bill Hybl, chairman/CEO of El Pomar Foundation, laugh as Hybl says Scott’s golf tournament proceeds of more than $6,200 are his “down payment” on this year’s 31st Empty Stocking Fund campaign. 111814 Photo by Linda Navarro (linda navarro)Randy Dipner, center, and representatives of the All Colorado Beer Festival, brought a check for $18,000 to the kickoff reception for the 31st Gazette/El Pomar Foundation Empty Stocking Fund. Ready to toast the achievement with him were Gazette publisher Dan Steever, second from right, and El Pomar Foundation head Bill Hybl. 111814 Photo by Linda Navarro (linda navarro)Marianne Moore, left, and Executive Director April Speake from The Home Front Cares at the Empty Stocking Fund kickoff at Penrose House. This is THFC’s first year as a campaign recipient. 111814 Photo by Linda Navarro (linda navarro)Representing TESSA at the Penrose House kickoff for its first year as an Empty Stocking Fund agency were, from left, Christina Baker, director Becky Gundrum, Anne Markley and Samilja Heim. 111814 Photo by Limda Navarro (linda navarro)David Ervin, left, executive director of The Resource Exchange, meets Empty Stocking Fund media partner Paul Kelley of iHeartRadio. This is the first year TRE has been a campaign agency. 111814 Photo by Linda Navarro (linda navarro)There was Army talk aplenty when retired Command Sgt. Major Terrance McWilliams, right, of El Pomar Foundation, spotted Craig Smith’s Army Ranger lapel pin at the Empty Stocking Fund kickoff reception. 111814 Photo by Linda Navarro (linda navarro)Chatting during the kickoff for the 31st Empty Stocking Fund at Penrose House were donors, from left, Barbara and Joe Dixon and Richard and Suzanne Utzke. 111814 Photo by Linda Navarro (linda navarro)
