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 13th Annual HPWT Halloveen Chili Dinner and Costume Contest  Arise & attend! Don your capes and fangs and bring garlic-tainted goodies. Count Dogula vill valk again!  Costume avards will be given in these categories: Best Namesake; Famous Person; Best Team; Best "Halloveen"; Most Original Tuesday October 24, 2006 6:00 p.m. Dinner 7:00 p.m. Costume Preparation 7:15 contest Arapahoe County multi-purpose building All GDB Puppies in Training, Career Change Dogs, and Vorking Guides (and their people) are invited! |
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 Velcome....Enter the crypt...If you dare! Count Dogula is vaiting for you! |
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 Sink your fangs into some salad |
 Or perhaps chili is a meatier choice. |
 Join us for a bite! |
 Vill your image show up in a photo? Jane & Russell Smoak vill find out! Zorba and Barb get ready to pose. |
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 Register your dog in one costume category. |
 Sara and Amy, the judges from Animal E.R., await. |
 Jack, our ever-humorous M.C., studies his script. |
 Pam starts the festivities. |
 Competitors line up in their groups. Looks like stiff competition for the "Best Halloween" crowd. |
 It's a long wait...will they ever call the "best team" group? |
   Winners choose their prizes from the 1st, 2nd and 3rd prize tables. |
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 Frampton is a dapper gentleman. |
 Capri the Wonder Dog |
 Leonard Decker's black labs Lucerne and Rodeo are one-half of the "Black and Decker" costume. |
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  A rare breed--Chocolate lab, played deliciously in a hershey's wrapper by Quintera. |
 \ Colleen as a Fairy |
  Trishna and Michelle are Future Graduates-- one as a Guide Dog, and one from High School. |
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 "Quoth the Raven: Nevermore!" Edgar "Arlin" Poe. |
 Straight from Hollywood! Marilyn Monroe and Jack Sparrow as portrayed by Maile and Matt. Valiant shows off his spots. |
 Chanel does a classy imitation of Coco Chanel, the fashion designer. |
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  Who is having more fun? Power Ranger Valdez or his puppy raiser, Daniel? |
 Damara is an angel with a sassy twist as a Victoria's Secret Model. |
 Wocka, Wocka! Barb dressed Zorba as Fozzie Bear! |
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 Orianna is cute as a purple spider. |
 We were batty for McCloud's bat wings. |
 Decade the jack-o-lantern checks out Alfonso's skeleton costume. |
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| Ben made a jolly jester. |
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 Dysis is super in her Super Girl outfit. |
 Mack kept the spirit of our "Count Dogula" theme in his Dogzilla costume. |
 Ultima as a black spider |
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 Dulcinea's raisers look like wholesome as farm girls, and everyone knows the lady bug is a farmer's best friend! |
 Who are those Catholic school girls? Christina and Sloan, of course! |
 Diane and Rigo make a smashing pair as Blackfoot Indians. |
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Nimoy was a perfect Eeyore, and even brought his Pooh pals, Tigger and Rabbit! |
 Dr. Nelson and patient T.J. stopped by on their way from the hospital. |
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 Kamille and Miranda with dogs Lodge and Jasper were inspired by the broadway play, "CATS" to come as "Jellicle Cats." |
 Cruella DeVille finally caught herself some Dalmatian puppies! (That's Sandy in the wig and Valiant on the floor in the spots). |
 Ellis and his mom were stylish purple wizards.  |
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 Elm + O = Elmo. |
 Dot dressed Sylvester as Sylvester the cat. Look out, Tweety Bird! |
 Condor...Califonia Condor...Great namesake costume! |
 Camay certainly makes a cute bar of soap. Looks like raiser Colette is ready for a bath! |
Frill wore frills to the party. |
 Sheffield and Leah get punny with his "Chef Field" costume. |
 Hey, Blaze, where's the fire? At least you're ready for it in your fireman's costume. |
 What shall Venus be for Halloween? Venus De Milo? No... The Birth of Venus? No... Venus Williams, tennis star? No. The Planet Venus? No...She's a cute lil' fly in a Venus Flytrap! |
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 Jimmy drove in as a GMC jeep Jimmy. |
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 New Category! - The "Classy Combo" is awarded to the humans with the best costumes, with or without puppy participation!  Sandy, Matt, Maile and friends from the Northglenn club are recepients of the "classy combo" award for their Cruella De Ville, Marilyn Monroe, and Jack Sparrow costumes. |
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 Leonard Decker cleverly puns on his last name and Guides Lucerne (working) and Rodeo (retired) to become "Black and Decker." Barb Deevers, GDB's Community Representative in Colorado, escorts them to claim the Grand Prize. |
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Fangs to everyone
for their vonderful help!
from Pam Kalkus Another HPWT chili dinner has lured unsuspecting pups and persons into the promise of a good time. In honor of Northglenn and Boulder coming fully dressed in outlandish Halloween style, we have a new official costume category for next year...the "classy combo" retroactively awarded to Cruella and her companions which included captain Jack Sparrow and Marilyn. Puppy Valiant, you are lucky to have such a festive family. Many thanks to you for brightening up the room!! Danny Henderson and Carol Jonas scoured the town for fun prizes. Carol, you were also wonderful support in planning and set up. XOXO. Our fancy registration sheets, nametags, and delicious iced beverages were furnished by Liberty on Leashes. Dogs with Vision donated several tuff tug toys and Jack McPartland announced and organized the costume contest itself. Bonnie McPartland recruited the judges from Animal ER: Amy Gregory and Sara Schwartz, we value your time and keen eye. Thank you for helping us. Dogs with Vision also shared the salad/dessert responsibility with Sidekicks for Sight. All was delicious in those big orange bowls and monstrous platters...we snarfed it up....Our HPWT chili got cleaned out too. Thanks everybody for the great meal. No leftovers this year. This made cleanup easy...especially since we had lots of help from James Creasy, Andrea Loughry, Carol Jonas, Carmen Moyer along with Jane and Russell Smoak. The Smoaks also brought their fallish photo set and preserved the kodak moments we all treasure. Beth Nelson brought homemade cornbread and Janet Ford brought home grown corn stalks (which decorated our lavish entryway). Thank you to everybody who made the trip...especially those who braved rush hour traffic. HPWT so enjoyed your company--this 13th year. The only ultimately unlucky part of the evening is that we had no stage to showcase our record turnout of ultra-creative costumes. Booooo-hoo. Most, however, are captured on the website...so grab a snack and enjoy the revue. Thanks Andrea, as always, for putting this together.  And we thank you, Pam, for your enormous effort and putting together yet another fabulous party for all of us! |
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