Everything You Need to Know About Saturday Night!

Your intrepid reporters have discovered the following information about the Saturday night KE 50th Anniversary Celebration. This applies to the night after our reunion:

>>Attire for the evening is business casual. That's about one step up from your attire for our renuion on Friday night.

>>There will be a cash bar available all evening.

>>The event begins at 5:30 pm. When you arrive at the convention center you will come in the main entrance and turn in your ticket to one of the volunteers. You MUST have your ticket to get in the door. Tickets were either e-mailed to the address you provided to the KE 50th organizers, or they were mailed to your home address. If you don't have a ticket, phone Krystal Dziomba at 716-868-7010, or email her at ke50th@hotmail.com immediately.

>>Once you get in the doors you will proceed to the check-in table where you will receive your name badge, table place card, and parking pass.

>>Parking pass?? A double-secret benefit of the Saturday night event is that parking is included in the cost of your ticket. You are allowed to park in the Fernbach Parking Ramp at Court & Pearl. This is the ONLY ramp you can park in for free. When you pull into the lot, let the attendant know you are with the KE 50th Anniversary Celebration. They will then allow you to park. When you leave the Convention Center after the event, you MUST present the attendant with your ticket. If you do not, you will be charged for having parked in the lot. So make sure you get a parking pass, and make sure you give it to the attendant in the lot on your way out.

>>There are 99 tables set up for the Saturday night event. The organizers have attempted to accomodate requests to sit together, but there are no guarantees, especially if only 6 or fewer of you requested same-table seating. A total of 55 tables are “reserved.” When you check in and get your table place card, you will find out whether you are at a reserved table or in “open seating.”

>>A word to the wise from your intrepid reporters: Check your seating arrrangements as soon as you get your table place card--compare your card to the cards of those you were planning to sit with. If things don't look right, RUN into the convention center and take squatters' rights over a table for you and your friends. Just a friendly suggestion.

>>The table assignments are just for dinner. Once dinner is over, you are free to walk around and mingle with everyone else. In fact, we bet you can walk around even during dinner, although this has not ben confirmed with Security. What HAS been confirmed is that Security will NOT allow unpaid guests to come in once dinner is over and enjoy dancing/drinks. This event is only open to those who paid.

>>Downstairs in the ballroom there will be the Kenmore East Jazz Band playing from 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm as well as bars available.

>>Upstairs in the main ballroom is where most of the action of the evening will take place. Bring your camera, some of the "action" may be worth photographing.