Denim & Diamonds Gala February 24 at BOMA

February 12, 2007

Kinder Key, a volunteer organization of Columbus Childrens Hospital, announced today its second annual Denim & Diamonds Gala to benefit Columbus Childrens Heart Center, home to one of the leading heart centers in the nation. Denim & Diamonds will be held at 7 p.m. Saturday, February 24, at the Bar of Modern Art (BOMA), 595 E. Broad St., Columbus.

Attendees are invited to wear their jeans and enjoy this casually elegant evening. Denim & Diamonds Gala features light dinner and cocktails, a raffle to win designer jeans for a year, a 42-inch flat screen TV, or a one-year lease on a Mercedes Benz C Class. The evenings events will conclude with the winner of the champagne raffle awarded a two-carat diamond. Chris Bradley, WBNS 10TV chief meteorologist, will serve as master of ceremonies.

Tickets are $150 per person or $1,000 as a Denim Sponsor (includes two tickets to the event, one raffle ticket and the company or individual name in the event program). Corporate sponsorships are still available.

Presenting partners include BOMA, Abercrombie & Fitch, Blendon Gardens, Crown Eurocars-Mercedes Benz, Dr. MoJoe, gemologist Timothy A. Fleming and Genesis Audio.

For more information and to purchase tickets, please contact Tracey Bricker at (740) 816-6519, or tbricker001@columbus.rr.com.

About Kinder Key
Kinder Key serves as an auxiliary of Columbus Childrens Hospital dedicated to supporting the lifesaving work at Childrens Heart Center. The group, founded in 1954, has demonstrated its commitment by raising over $2 million for Childrens mission of providing the highest quality health care to all children, regardless of their ability to pay. Today, active members are working to continue the Kinder Key legacy of providing new hope for young hearts through a variety of fund-raising efforts such as the traditional holiday caroling drive, the sale of holiday angels, the Womens Division of The Memorial Tournament and the second annual Denim & Diamonds Gala.

About Nationwide Children's Hospital

Named to the Top 10 Honor Roll on U.S. News & World Report’s 2023-24 list of “Best Children’s Hospitals,” Nationwide Children’s Hospital is one of America’s largest not-for-profit free-standing pediatric health care systems providing unique expertise in pediatric population health, behavioral health, genomics and health equity as the next frontiers in pediatric medicine, leading to best outcomes for the health of the whole child. Integrated clinical and research programs, as well as prioritizing quality and safety, are part of what allows Nationwide Children’s to advance its unique model of care. Nationwide Children’s has a staff of more than 14,000 that provides state-of-the-art wellness, preventive and rehabilitative care and diagnostic treatment during more than 1.7 million patient visits annually. As home to the Department of Pediatrics of The Ohio State University College of Medicine, Nationwide Children’s physicians train the next generation of pediatricians and pediatric specialists. The Abigail Wexner Research Institute at Nationwide Children’s Hospital is one of the Top 10 National Institutes of Health-funded free-standing pediatric research facilities. More information is available at NationwideChildrens.org.