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Helping Austin Ice Ball at the Austin Music Hall
Mighty proud of the Helping Austin Ice Ball …
Amy Kelly and Chris Langan
Just a few years ago, Helping Austin was a clutch of friends who could fit around a table at happy hour …
Michelle and Paul Weigand
Last year, they moved up to the Monarch Events Center, a nice, but hardly high-profile former movie theater near Highland Mall …
Craig and Amanda Moore
Now, thanks to Amy Stanley and friends … Helping Austin’s Ice Ball roared into the Austin Music Hall …
Bill Hopkins and Julie Nowlin
In other words, the charity big time … A VIP area upstairs got the action rolling (hey, has anyone else notice that the Green Water Treatment Plant just to the south is being demolished quickly?)
Youssef Lahlou and Victoria Gutierrez
Then the mammoth hall filled up quickly … A dozen or so restaurants set up service booths …
Greg Williams, Matt Raines
A silent auction spread over the hall’s north quadrant … Goddess auctioneer Victoria Gutierrez handled the live action …
Taylor Perkins, Meredith Davis
Two things amazed: The amount of money (in the six-figure range) raised for Big Brothers Big Sisters (who can argue with that?) …
Bryan Baralt, Tiffany Williams
Also the fact that, out of hundreds of charity revelers, I recognized maybe three —
Megan Felker, Mark Harrington
Stanley, Rare publisher Taylor Perkins and former Mayor Will Wynn, looking so tanned and relaxed, he might as well have been wearing metaphorical flip-flops. Good for him!
Shay Bourgeois and David Alley
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