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150th kickoff banquet sells out
Tickets to Jan. 15 event at LCCC no longer available.
By JEFF M. HARDISON
jhardison@lakecityreporter.com
The first event to start a year of Lake City celebrating 150 years as a metropolis is still open to all comers, but tickets to the banquet that night are no longer for sale.
The city starts celebrating its 150th anniversary on Jan. 15 with a noon event in Olustee Park, which is open to all and is free. This 30- to 60-minute event will include raising of the sesquicentennial flag, singing by a community choir, a speech and free cake.
People who do not have a ticket to the Jan. 15 banquet at Lake City Community College, however, have missed their opportunity to be part of this historic event.
The larger and more expensive kickoff event is $50-a-plate at LCCC. It combines the annual Lake City-Columbia County Chamber of Commerce Banquet and the kickoff event for the sesquicentennial.
Sesquicentennial Executive Committee Chairman Stephen Witt, and members Dewey Weaver, Harvey Campbell, Paulette Lord and Jackie Kite acknowledged Tuesday that there is only room for 500 people at the LCCC facility. More than 400 tickets are sold and the remaining tickets are spoken for.
There also will be no tickets sold at the door.
There will be other events throughout 2009 to herald the 150th birthday of the city.
In other news from the Sesquicentennial Executive Committee meeting on Tuesday, the committee decided:
n Signed and numbered prints of the logo created by Duffy Soto will sell for $10 each. There are only 150 of these, and Soto said any that are unsigned or numbered higher than 150 are counterfeits.
n Announced that the committee will put up $5,000 as seed money for a $20,000 sesquicentennial mural and that the other funding for the mural will come from private sponsors.
The city starts celebrating its 150th anniversary on Jan. 15 with a noon event in Olustee Park, which is open to all and is free. This 30- to 60-minute event will include raising of the sesquicentennial flag, singing by a community choir, a speech and free cake.
People who do not have a ticket to the Jan. 15 banquet at Lake City Community College, however, have missed their opportunity to be part of this historic event.
The larger and more expensive kickoff event is $50-a-plate at LCCC. It combines the annual Lake City-Columbia County Chamber of Commerce Banquet and the kickoff event for the sesquicentennial.
Sesquicentennial Executive Committee Chairman Stephen Witt, and members Dewey Weaver, Harvey Campbell, Paulette Lord and Jackie Kite acknowledged Tuesday that there is only room for 500 people at the LCCC facility. More than 400 tickets are sold and the remaining tickets are spoken for.
There also will be no tickets sold at the door.
There will be other events throughout 2009 to herald the 150th birthday of the city.
In other news from the Sesquicentennial Executive Committee meeting on Tuesday, the committee decided:
n Signed and numbered prints of the logo created by Duffy Soto will sell for $10 each. There are only 150 of these, and Soto said any that are unsigned or numbered higher than 150 are counterfeits.
n Announced that the committee will put up $5,000 as seed money for a $20,000 sesquicentennial mural and that the other funding for the mural will come from private sponsors.
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Bob wrote on Dec 31, 2008 10:06 AM:
Does anyone else see the problem here? "