Big band dance held in airport hangar
Daily Inter-Lake | UPDATED 12 years, 6 months AGO
The second annual Sentimental Journey dinner dance will be held on Saturday, June 15, from 5:30 to 11 p.m., in the hangar of Ray and Ladeine Thompson at Glacier Park International Airport.
The dance is sponsored by Flathead County Republican Women.
Sentimental Journey is a stroll down memory lane to big band music of yesteryear played by the Don Lawrence Orchestra, and a prime rib dinner catered by Vista Linda. The event will feature a patriotic setting surrounded by vintage WWII and Korean-era fighter planes.
Local Bigfork resident and singer Tonja King will perform “God Bless America” and other singalong patriotic songs and guests are invited to get up close to a trio of vintage airplanes including an AT-6 “Harvard,” an F4U “Corsair” and a Travel Air.
Auction items will include a ride in one of the historic planes and other gifts and prizes.
The Thompson-Tamarack air hangar is located at GPI Gate 7.
Cost is $60 per person, and tables of 8 or 10 guests can be reserved.
Tickets are available through June 10 at Sykes’ Market in Kalispell, from Caroline Solomon at 837-4525, or online at www.fcrwomen.org
Early ticket purchase is recommended.