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Pena to attend new airport’s galaDedication party comes months before openingAssociated ^essDKNVKK — Transportation Secretary Fe derico Pena plans to return to Denver on fYi-day for Denver international Airport's dedication gala, even though the facility won't open untl MarchPena, who was mayor of Denver when the S3 2 billion prtyect was approved, will be joined at the ceremony by Mayor Wellington Webb, (juv. Roy Kotnrr, three past and present admin-istr*tors of the Kcdcr.il Aviation Administration ami J»w»nee Hunt of Denvai. thanov U.3. ambassador to Austria.Webb postponed the airport’s opminjpfroin next month until March, but decided to go ahead with Friday's gala because the plans had progressed too far to cancel.•flu- daylong black-tie galu will bt staged inside the tent-roofed main terminal.ll will begin wilh «ui 11 a.m. derti.iat.iuci ami ribbon-culling for 2,000 guests, including I’cna and Elrcy Jeppescn, an 8tf-ycar-old aviation pioneer for whom the terminal is named.Hie evening's events will include a benefitbanquet and ball for J.300 gu«U» and a full-scale stage show, said Charies Ansbacher, president and chief executive officer of New-World Airport Cornrr.ls sion, which Is staging the event.We re thrilled, It a living up to our cxpccta lions/’ Ansbacher said Two thousand people classified as patrons mayor when project will pay »60O a plate forwas approved. a least of duck andlt;f beef and desserts.Ansbacher said 1.300 contributors ’ will pay 11Ui» to sample an extensive buffet.The after-dinner entertainment will include Gita Moreno, Den Vereen and Ihe Colorado Sym-plroiiy. 1'utroiLS will sit around ll* Stage while contributors will be two football fields away, watching 0*e event on big-scrcen tcieyisions Other dignitaries who are expected for the event include a handful of foreign ambassadors, tjjlt; airline executives and state and local lenders.
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Colorado Springs Gazette Telegraph
Colorado Springs, Colorado, US
Tue, Nov 16, 1993
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