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By Ford Wadsworth
10/5/2008 |
Party on high
About 50 lucky El Pasoans were treated to a party with a view atop Ranger Peak in the Franklin Mountains two weeks ago.
Beth and Rick Black organized the party for a local club, Los Caballeros. Everything – food, wine, tables, chairs – had to be transported up the mountain via the Wyler Aerial Tramway.
That included Pilo the bartender and catering by Chaplain’s: shrimp cocktail, tenderloin sandwiches and a lemon meringue desert.
People who were there said the evening was positively magical, with a classical guitarist playing and perfect weather.
There have been weddings, a few re-enlistment ceremonies and other special events at the top of the tramway. You just can’t invite a lot of guests.
Closing
Compass Bank is closing its El Paso trust office. John Witherspoon, who was the department, said he hopes to stay in town, since he and his wife Pat love El Paso, and she just got a nice promotion as the dean of UTEP’s Graduate School.
We’re told a Fort Worth-based banker will handle local accounts and visit frequently.
Growing
El Paso’s Sanders Wingo ad agency has moved its Austin office into a new 13,000-square-foot location near the UT campus.
Sanders Wingo is the fifth largest African-American-owned creative agency in the country.
It has about 90 employees nationally, including its El Paso office in the Wells Fargo building, plus satellite offices in Baltimore, Detroit, California and Las Vegas.
Retail news
Opening: Bed, Bath and Beyond in the old Circuit City location on Sunland Park Drive, just up the street from Linens’n’Things.
Closing: Ireland’s furniture store, after more than 40 years.
Fin-ished: Seafood Galley on Geronimo, after 41 years in El Paso.
Seen on the street
Moving vans at the Blacker Avenue home of Dee and Adair Margo, marking their move to a new home in the Upper Valley.
They’d been camping out at an Westside apartment during construction, chosen for its location in Texas House Dist. 78.
Republican Dee Margo is running against Democrat Joe Moody for the House seat.
El Paso’s evolving music scene is getting national attention from Vanity Fair. Andi Teran, an El Paso native, was in town recently working on an online article for the national magazine’s Web site.
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