GloryUs Goings On – Take a trip back in time to The Copa at Bessie’s Hope

The Copa is the spot that attracted entertainment icons, such as Frank Sinatra, Marilyn Monroe, Dean Martin and others most of us only knew through tabloids. If you have no such memories yourself, ask your elderly relatives. Enter the Denver Tech Center Marriott Rocky Mountain Event Center, May 18, and be transported to the famous New York City Copacabana, courtesy of Bessie’s Hope.

Now, about those elderly relatives. Many are spending their last years in nursing homes alone there as children’s jobs and other opportunities took them thousands of miles away. They live on those memories of a full dining room each holiday dinner.

The average nursing home resident gets about one visitor each year. They deserve better. Bessie’s Hope brings youth in at-risk programs and other volunteers to area nursing homes as each mutually finds a caring avenue of connection and Bessie’s Hope’s been doing this for 18 years.

Funding this program depends on the annual gala being co-chaired by LaFawn Biddle and Dr. Sandra Arkin. Claudette and Bruce Ereck are sponsorship chairs.

Working with them are Frances and Monica Owens, Louise Richardson, Anne Stotts, Pat Robinson, Courtney Drake-McDonough and Claire McDonough, Kay Ray, Jamie Angelich, Hildegard White, Rosalina Diecidue, Cathy Felling, and Adrienne Ruston Fitzgibbons. They’re planning sound-a-like performers to put on a Copa-like show.

For information, call co-founder Linda Holloway, 303-423-4197.