Hello and Happy Thursday!!
Happy Thursday, Parrot Heads! Hopefully everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving!
December Events
The FINAL Denver Santa Pub Crawl!!
Saturday, December 7, 2019 at 1:30 PM – 11:30 PM
Blake St Tavern, Denver, Colorado 80205
Decorating for the annual Christmas Party at the Tennyson Center for Children!!
Friday, December 13, 2019
If you are interested in helping decorate for the big Christmas party at the Tennyson Center, reply to this email and I will get you all the details. These kids have been through more than most of us can even imagine. So, if you have the time, please come out and help decorate for this event.
The decorating will start at 9am. Please bring wrapping paper, scissors, tape, ribbon and bows. There are a lot of cabinets in the center that will be decorated as big presents.
These kids need basic necessity items like blankets, stretch gloves, shampoo, toothpaste, soap, toothbrushes, etc. If you would like to donate any of these items, please contact Robin so we can arrange getting the items to the Tennyson Center by Dec 13.
We raised about $600 for the Tennyson Center last month, and it was VERY much appreciated. Thank you to all the Parrot Heads for the great turnout at our November meeting!! Thanks to those who brought raffle items and thanks to everyone for opening their wallets for the kids!
Laying Wreaths at Ft Logan Cemetery
Saturday, December 14th at Fort Logan National Cemetery
4400 W Kenyon Ave, Denver, CO 80236
Each December on National Wreaths Across America Day, the mission to Remember, Honor and Teach is carried out by coordinating wreath-laying ceremonies at Arlington National Cemetery, as well as at more than 1,600 additional locations in all 50 U.S. states, at sea and abroad.
Quite a few club members have already signed up for this event. If you would like to sign up to place wreaths on the graves at Ft. Logan, or if you’d like to sponsor a wreath, please sign up here.
December Club Meeting
Saturday, December 21
Hoppers Sports Bar in Wheat Ridge
We will have our annual Toy Drive. Please bring a new, unwrapped toy for our toy drive.
Food Drive: One of our favorite charities, the Community Table, is desperately low on food. So, please bring canned goods, spaghetti sauce, rice, pasta, peanut butter or canned proteins so we can deliver it to the food bank in Arvada to help them out this holiday season.
Everyone bring a raffle gift for our Christmas raffle. Plus, we are going to have a tropical ornament exchange as well. So, start looking for tropical Christmas tree ornaments if you want to participate in the tropical ornament exchange.
We will also have an UGLY Christmas sweater contest. The winner will receive a great prize, so be creative!
December Charity –
The Charity this month will go to The Second Wind Fund. This organization helps children and youth at risk of suicide. While other suicide prevention organizations offer broad suicide prevention education and awareness, Second Wind Fund offers actual treatment services to at-risk children and youth. Second Wind Fund has built an innovative program to match children and youth ages 19 and younger, who are at risk of suicide, with a licensed therapist in their local community.
There have been 6 kids in our community who have taken their own lives in the past 2 months. All of them were ages 12 and 13. A good friend of Pete and Robin’s has a 13-year-old daughter who attempted to take her own life. Her mother found her, literally seconds, before she died. She has been in ICU for 3 weeks now, and doctors are saying she may never even know her own name again, and will be in the hospital at least 9 more months, to a year. This has been such a horrible tragedy for all of us who know the family. If anyone would like to help Kira’s family, we are going to “pass the hat” for a separate fundraiser for Kira’s family. Their medical bills are insurmountable.
The holidays are a hard time of year for so many. Please know that there are a lot of people who care, and a lot of ways to get help.
The National Suicide Prevention Hotline is at 1-800-273-8255.
January Events
Colorado Avalanche Game??
We have enough people interested to get tickets for the January 2 game against the defending Stanley Cup Champs, St Louis Blues!
Thanks to those who have contacted us and expressed interest in going. Please send us an email or text/call Pete if you are still interested, so we can get the final count and tickets purchased.
The tickets are $88 each, first level, 2 attack zone seats. Please contact Pete, Robin or Karen if you are interested in joining us on January 2, 2020.
Escape to Margaritaville
January 5, 2020 at 2:00 PM
Ticket Sales are closed now.
We are partnering with the Radisson Hotel, Denver for a brunch and Mimosas before the show!! They are also offering us rooms for Saturday and/or Sunday nights at a FANTASTIC rate of $99 per night. Stay tuned for more details!!
You don’t have to have tickets to the play to get the room rate and join us for the brunch before the show.
Please contact Karen or Robin if you’d like to join us for the brunch before the show. We’ll have more details on how to get the $99 room rate in the coming weeks.
Robin has the tickets this week. She will have them at the December meeting. If you can’t make it to any of the club events, please contact us and arrange picking up your tickets. It is not our responsibility to get your tickets to you. We had a few problems with distribution of Rockies tickets, so please make arrangements to pick up your own tickets. Because of the problems we had with the Rockies tickets, we can not mail the tickets this time.
House Concert with Thom Shepherd and Coley McCabe!!
January 12, 2020 – 7pm
Someplace Else Brewery
6425 W 52nd Ave #6 – Arvada
Cost is $20 per person with all proceeds going to the artists.
Bring a dessert or appetizer to share if you’d like.
January Club Meeting
Saturday, January 18, 2020 – 6pm
Hoppers Sports Bar, Wheat Ridge
February Events
Fundraiser
Someplace Else Brewery in Arvada will be hosting fundraisers for Kira’s family. Stay tuned for details, but if anyone would like to help us with baskets and silent auction items, please let me know. Any donation will be greatly appreciated.
February Club Meeting
Saturday, February 15, 2020 – 6pm
Hoppers Sports Bar, Wheat Ridge
House Concert with Mike Nash!!
February 23rd – 7pm
Someplace Else Brewery
6425 W 52nd Ave #6 – Arvada
Cost will be $20 per person with all proceeds going to the artist.
Bring a dessert or appetizer to share if you’d like.
Club T-shirts!!
We still have plenty of t-shirts for our 25th Anniversary!!! We have quite an assortment of colors (Pink, as shown below, Black, Butter Yellow, Caribbean Blue, Steel Gray, Periwinkle, Salmon and Sea Foam Green). We have a wide variety of sizes, and both men’s and lady’s cut shirts (lady’s cut are only available in pink). The one shown below is a lady’s cut, with both front and back pictured.
The front has the original Parrot Head logo on it, and the back has a picture on it provided by Dixie LaHood. They are awesome!! We’ll have them at all the meetings. If you can’t attend a meeting and would like one… please contact us to arrange getting your cool new club shirt! The cost is $30 each. (if you can’t make it to a meeting to pick one up, drop a check in the mail to us and please add $5 per shirt for shipping.)
We also have T-shirts left over from the Parrot Head 5280 Fest (Party with a Purpose) They are really nice! We have white or teal colors, mens cut or ladies v-neck cut. They will be for sale at all the meetings, or you can contact us to arrange getting one. We will have some for sale at the next meeting. They are on sale now for $20 each. President Pete is modeling one below:
Misc. Events
Jeff Dunham is coming to the 1ST BANK Center (Broomfield Events Center) on April 4.
Several in our group are interested in going, so we checked into group tickets. They don’t really have a group ticket sales up there, and we were not able to get a large group of tickets, but we did manage to get a few. We have a very limited number, so we will sell them on a first come first serve basis. The cost is $75 each. Sorry we can’t accommodate everyone, but there are still tickets for sale, so if you’d like to go, and can’t fit into our limited number, please buy some tickets online. It will be a very fun night. “Jeffafa” is a SUPER funny!
Contact us if you’d like to buy tickets.
2020 Membership Dues are upon us!!
The Colorado Parrot Head Club has not had an annual membership dues increase for many years. We have increased the dues for next year, starting on Dec.1, 2019. The new fees will be as follows:
New Member (Single Membership): $45
Member Renewal (Single Membership): $35
New Member (Family Membership): $55
Member Renewal (Family Membership): $45
For renewals, the dues are only going up $5 for the year. For new members the dues will increase by $10 per year. The new rates went into effect Dec. 1.
Misc.
Glen Behring is thinking of moving back to Colorado, and is looking for a room to rent. If anyone can help him out, please contact us for Glen’s contact information.
Don’t forget to check in on Gary and Bonnie Dickinson and their travels at their BLOG and follow their adventures at: www.bbfreee.wordpress.com
Fins up!
Parrot Head President, Pete!