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Thank You, Thank You, Thank You!!!

Thank you for making our 50th anniversary weekend so incredible! What an amazing time we had. To have Bill Cosby emcee our gala and Roberta Flack perform, to be given the key to the city by Mayor Adrian Fenty at our street festival along U Street, and to throw a heck of a free concert with all D.C. talent at the 9:30 Club was simply a dream come true.

It all came together wonderfully, but only due to the hard work and dedication of so many people that put their time, money and hard work into this celebration. The following is a partial list of the people and the companies that came together to help us celebrate this great milestone. We thank you all and apologize for those we inadvertently missed below. Please know that we appreciate you too!

Special Thanks to Our Sponsors:

COMCAST – LEAD SPONSOR
Mark Allen, Kathy Hollinger & Howard Waller

9:30 CLUB
Seth Hurwitz & Lisa White

SYSCO
Keith Shapiro & Foday Sesay

360jmg
Max Brown & Staff

WASHINGTON METROPOLITAN RESTAURANT ASSOCIATION
Lynne Breaux & Andrew Kline
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COCA-COLA MID-ATLANTIC
Curtis Etherley

TOYOTA
Mark Johnson & Antonia Quirk

VERIZON
Kimberly A. Bassett

XM SATELLITE RADIO
Chance Patterson
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ABC FOURTEENTH STREET ASSOCIATES, LP
Marvin Jawer

BB&T
Tianya McMillan

CAROL SCHWARTZ

DADE PAPER
David Holtz

DONATELLI DEVELOPMENT
Christopher J. Donatelli

INDUSTRIAL BANK OF WASHINGTON
B. Dolye Mitchell

MARK BARNES

PN HOFFMAN
Monty Hoffman

THE ADAMS NATIONAL BANK
Lou Akers
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FIDELITY & TRUST BANK
Greshaun Fulgram & Mercedes Alvarez

HOLLAND & KNIGHT, LLP
Norman M. Glasgow, Jr.

HOME RUN BASEBALL CAMP, INC.
John McCarthy

HUMANITIES COUNCIL OF WASHINGTON, DC
Joy Ford Austin

LEE’S FLOWERS
Rick Lee

JUAN RIVERA

JULYAN LAW FIRM
David Julyan

UNIFIRST
Albert Edelman

U STREET THEATRE FOUNDATION
Janice Hill, Eileene Bright & Darlene “Star” Brown

UTZ
Chris Storm

WASHINGTON CITY PAPER
Sheila Reid

WKYS
Michelle Williams & Russ Parr

WPGC
Reggie Rouse, Lori Hall & Donnie Simpson

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ALICE RIVLIN

ALLIES BUILDING COMMUNITY, INC. (ABC)
Dr. Diane Tai

CARL & RISE COLE

MEDSTAR
Regina Knox-Woods

NO MURDERS DC
David Bowers

OSI
George H. Walker

REV. JOHN D. DETAEYE

WARNER H. SESSION

We’d also like to thank the following:

ALCHEMY CATERERS
Carla Hall & Donna Jenkins

BEN’S CHILI BOWL GALA COMMITTEE
Sonya Ali – Chair
Kamal Ben Ali, Nizam B. Ali, Lele Ashworth, Sharon Bland, Lydia Charles, Thomas Dawson, Bernard Demczuk, Uzma Malik Dorman, Robert Ellis, Effie Frankowski, Jackie Harris, Dorris Pollard, Joye Shepperd, Brian Summers

Bernadette “Peaches” Halton
30 year employee

BERNARD DEMCZUK, Ph.D
Naimah Muhammad

CAKEMAN RAVEN
Brooklyn, New York

CREATIVE CAKES
Sandi Maye-Key

COUNCILMEMBER JIM GRAHAM

CT PRINTING
Sonny Phan

DC CITY COUNCIL

DC GOVERNMENT

DRUMS UNLIMITED
Michael Toperzer

EMBASSY OF CHILE, SOUTH AMERICA

HARL PIANO
Cathy Harl

IBRAHIM & CAROL MUMIN & FRIENDS