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During January in each of the last 3 years, the CBC athletic department has put on a huge banquet.<\/P>
The goal of those events was to raise money for the department…and they’ve done a good job, collecting well over $60,000.<\/P>
Thursday night, it was the 4th annual “Follow Your Dreams” banquet over at CBC.<\/P>
The Hawks inducted 4 new members into their wall of fame…former coaches Dale Gier, Ed Maxwell, and Jim Rodgers and former baseball star and St. Louis Cardinals pitcher Ray Washburn.<\/P>
The special guest speaker was former CBC basketball player and Denver Nuggets star Byron Beck.<\/P>
And it turns out that some of these greats are a little star struck by one another.<\/P>
Byron Beck says, “Its fantastic…Ray’s sitting at my table here tonight and we’ve had some great conversations, I just told him how much I was in awe of what he has done, accomplished, pitching in the World Series and what not, and like I said, I always wanted to be a professional baseball player, so, its been really great.”<\/P>
There were a few other notable people at this year’s event, including Detroit Tigers pitcher Jeremy Bonderman, and most of the CBC coaches.<\/P>
As for money raised at this year’s banquet…we haven’t heard a dollar amount yet, but organizers seemed happy with the turn-out. <\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Published Jan. 21, 2010By Keith Leventhal, KEPR TV During January in each of the last 3 years, the CBC athletic department has put on a huge banquet.The goal of those events was to raise money for the department…and they’ve done a good job, collecting well over $60,000.Thursday night, it was the 4th annual “Follow Your […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-248092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=248092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248092\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}