The Salina Area Chamber of Commerce is now offering gallery seating at $30 per person for their Chamber Annual Banquet featuring Frank Abagnale. Abagnale, one the world’s most respected authorities on the subject of forgery, embezzlement, and secure documents. For over 35 years, Abagnale has worked with, advised and consulted financial institutions, corporations and governments around the world and over 14,000 of them use his fraud prevention programs. His story was told in the movie, Catch Me If You Can, which was directed by Steven Spielberg, starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Tom Hanks. At this time the Chamber has sold over 850 tickets to their Annual Banquet and Membership Meeting and over 300 to the Identity Theft Seminar. Both events take place on February 9 with the seminar starting at 2p.m. in Sam’s Chapel on campus at Kansas Wesleyan University, and the banquet starting at 6:30p.m. at the Bicentennial Center. There will be a membership networking reception from 5-6pm in North Heritage Hall of the Bicentennial Center.
The banquet will be held on the floor of the arena (tables of eight which includes dinner). Tickets for Chamber members are $50 per person for the banquet; $55 per person for the banquet and seminar; and $10 per person for the seminar only. Tickets for non-members are $75 per person for the banquet; $85 per person for the banquet and seminar; and $20 for the seminar only. Tickets for gallery seats are $30 per person for both Chamber members and non-members. Reservations can be made by Chamber members by calling the Chamber office, 1-785-827-9310, ext. 123, or email scole@salinakansas.org. Tickets will be reserved on a first-come, first-serve basis.
The Stiefel Theatre will be presenting Catch Me if You Can as part of their Classic Movie Series on February 2 at 7p.m. Tickets are $5 per person and may be purchased at the Stiefel box office. The evening will consist of remarks by outgoing Chairman Todd Davidson and incoming Chairman Dan Mendicina, a review of the Chamber’s accomplishments in 2011, and the address by Mr. Abagnale.