Wow!!!!!!!! What a Party!!!!!! On February 10th, the place to be was The Sawmill Cafe in Seaside Heights, NJ for the 2007 OPA Winter Awards Dinner! Teams traveled for near and far to be in attendance. Not only was there butler style appetizers, but the buffet Main Course was superb! Our master of ceremonies, Ed "Smitty" Smith, with some help from the the Jersey Boyz' Augie Pensa and Kevin Hans, knew exactly what to say and make the night move smoothly with lots of laughs!
Also invited were Shore Dreams For Kids directors and AMF Offshore to attend the OPA Winter Awards Dinner in Seaside Heights to accept AMF’s very generous donation that was raised for their raffle. On hand to receive the check on behalf of Shore Dreams For Kids were Rob Cline, Geralyn Monroe and Dave Patnaude which was presented by Scott Begovich, Chief Savering & Marc Granet. The final donation amounted to $10,604.00!
OPA stepped it up a notch this year and hired the awesome band "Nicole Hart & The NRG Band"www.TheNRGBand.com. And little did we know that we had a few rockstars (Louie Giaconttieri, Jeff Cropper) within the organization that got up and Jammed on stage with The NRG Band.
Congratulations to all the 2006 winners!
Thank You to all for attending and making our 2007 Winter Awards Dinner a night to remember!
in an email from Nicole Hart:
It was so great being able to provide entertainment to you fellas at the OPA 2007 Winter Party...You guys KNOW how to party! We all had a lot of fun, and would love to provide music for your future events. Please do keep us in mind...if you would like us to do any other Tri-State parties, such as Patchogue, or even the show in Michigan, I'm sure we can work it out, and we'd be honored to do it.
I checked out the Jersey Boyz site...definitely looks like you boys know how to have FUN. I loved seeing all the powerboats. Please do include us for any future events, and I would consider it an honor to ride out in one of the powerboats sometime!
Warmest regards,
Nicole Hart
& The NRG Band
