SOUP! Serves Up Hope to Keep Colorado Kids Healthy
Guest post by Dawn Crawford, Communications Director of the Colorado Children’s Immunization Coalition and friend to mommy bloggers everywhere.
Looking for a fun night out with your mom friends or with the DH? Does warm samples of soup, fine wines, amazing desserts and keeping Colorado’s kids healthy sound like a good time? Then you are invited to attend the 3rd annual Colorado Children’s Immunization Coalition SOUP! (Shots Offer Unrivaled Protection) event!
For over a decade, the Colorado Children’s Immunization Coalition has worked to increase childhood immunization coverage across Colorado. As a way of thanking its partners and supporters in a creative way, the nonprofit is hosting a soup-tasting event.
SOUP! (Shots Offer Unrivaled Protection)
A fundraiser for the Colorado Children’s Immunization Coalition
Presented by COLORADO CAPITAL BANK AND GAY & LESBIAN FUND FOR COLORADO
Tuesday, April 27 from 6-9 p.m.
At the Cable Center on the University of Denver campus
We invite only the best restaurants to attend and this year’s event will include culinary concoctions from:
- Abruscis
- Coral Room
- Dazzle
- Il Posto
- Jack’s Fish House
- Le Central
- Lola
- Red Tango
- Root Down
- Sushi Hai
- Strings
- Table 6
Guests will be able to get in on the fun by voting for the Best Soup and Most Creative Soup of the year.
In addition to soup there will be desserts, beverages and breads from Great Divide Brewing, Kevin and Tanya Hicks Distribution, City Bakery, Grateful Bread Company, and Café Europa.
This year’s event will also honor the Big Shot of the Year, Lieutenant Governor Barbara O’Brien for her dedication to child’s health issues.
The event is expected to draw over 200 of Colorado’s parents, pediatricians, physicians, nurses, educators, legislators, and public health experts to further CCIC’s mission of protecting Colorado’s children.
Tickets are only $50 per person, $90 per couple, or $35 for professionals under 35. A portion of the tickets are tax-deductible. To purchase your tickets today visit www.childrensimmunization.org/soup.
For more information about the Colorado Children’s Immunization Coalition visit www.childrensimmunization.org or follow us on Twitter at @immunizecokids.
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