>To: infoncc@topica.com
>From: Northbrook Cycle Committee <infoncc@aol.com>
>Subject: NCC Extra -- Dinner with Cycling Legend Andy Hampsten
>Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2004 20:30:33 +0000
>Reply-To: infoncc@aol.com
>X-Topica-Id: <1074198633.web003.5329.1000000>
>List-Help: http://topica.com/
>List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:infoncc-unsubscribe@topica.com>
>
>Dinner with Cycling Legend Andy Hampsten
>to help Save the Northbrook Velodrome
>
>(Northbrook, Ill., Jan. 15) ñ Cycling legend Andy Hampsten will headline
>a gala fundraising dinner early next month, joining the long list of
>supporters helping to Save the Northbrook Velodrome. Hampsten, the only
>American to win the prestigious Tour of Italy, will be joined by Tom
>Schuler, head of Team Sports Inc., and U.S. Postal Service riders Robbie
>Ventura and Kenny LabbÈ at the event.
>
>All this is happening at 6 p.m. on Saturday, February 7 at E.J.'s Place,
>10027 N. Skokie Blvd. in Skokie. Tickets are $100 each and seating is
>limited to 90. Owner E.J. Lenzi is donating the use of a party room and
>all food costs for the event.
>
>The event will also feature a raffle sponsored by Turin Bicycles and
>Lake Shoes. On offer are a Waterford 2800 track frame customized to the
>winner's specifications and five pairs of top-of-the-line Lake CX303CF
>shoes ñ the shoes Hampsten would wear if riding the Giro today. Tickets
>for the event will include one entry into the raffle; both dinner
>tickets and additional raffle entries are available for $10 on-line at
>SignMeUpSports.com at http://www.signmeup.com/
>to the public, regardless whether they attend the dinner.) Attendees to
>the dinner will also participate in a silent auction to help raise
>further funds.
>
>"Our year-end Close the Gap fundraising drive put us very close to our
>goal," according to Peter Janunas, Northbrook Cycle Committee president.
>"We hope that this event, dinner with such great cycling dignitaries,
>will put us over the top."
>
>In addition to his 1988 Giro d'Italia win, Hampsten won the Tour of
>Switzerland in 1987 and a Tour de France stage to the legendary Alpe
>d'Huez in 1992 (the only American besides Lance Armstrong to win there.)
>Schuler's Team Sports Inc. was the team behind the long-running domestic
>Saturn squad, the most successful U.S.-based team ever. Ventura and
>LabbÈ are two Illinois-based riders on Armstrong's USPS team.
>
>The Northbrook Park District Ed Rudolph Velodrome is in danger of
>closing after this season unless improvements are made. The Northbrook
>Park District, which owns the facility, has offered to fund half the
>project, charging the local cycling community with raising the
>remainder.
>
>The Northbrook Cycling Committee is coordinating these efforts, and has
>created a reserve fund administered by a CPA who has volunteered his
>time. Via several fundraising efforts, the goal has nearly been
>achieved; until formal bids are made public, however, the "finish line"
>will not be known.
>
>More information is available at http://www.northbrookvelodrome.com.
>
>###
>
>www.northbrookvelodrome.com
>
>--^----------------------------------------------------------------
>This email was sent to: kwillow@imagestudio.net
>
>EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/
>Or send an email to: infoncc-unsubscribe@topica.com
>
>TOPICA - Start your own email discussion group. FREE!
>http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/create/index2.html
>--^----------------------------------------------------------------
Ken Willow
Chicago,IL