Fort Worth Airpower Foundation to Host Sky Ball VI

Financial Support for Military Families American Airlines the proud premier partner of this patriotic event

FORT WORTH, Texas – An expected three thousand patriotic Americans will gather at the American Airlines hangar at Alliance Airport in Fort Worth on Saturday October 11, 2008 for Sky Ball VI. The Fort Worth Airpower Foundation and its premier partner American Airlines will host Sky Ball from 6pm until 10:30pm raising money to help solve financial difficulties facing families of deployed troops.

Sky Ball VI is a high powered patriotic pageant including a gourmet dinner, top flight entertainment and this year the first ever night time pyrotechnic air show. Among the performers will be; the 250 member award winning Colleyville Heritage Marching Panther Band; from the NCAA Basketball Tournament the Cactus Cuties; just off of his My Real Life Tour for the U.S. Army Nashville Country Music Star Michael Peterson will headline the show; also appearing will be the patriotic singing duo Vandal-Snook, film and television Star Gary Sinise and legendary stage and screen actor James McEachin.

Sky Ball will again feature a team of nationally recognized chefs, lead by President Bush’s favorite BBQ chef Eddie Deen, Paul Vinyard and his staff from his popular Babe’s Chicken Dinner House, and celebrated Fort Worth chefs Michael Thomson from Michaels Ancho Chili Bar and Keith Hicks from Ovation’s Jazz Restaurant. Food for our chefs is generously being provided by Ben E. Keith in Fort Worth. There will be silent and live auctions, featuring a special raffle of a Porsche Cayman offered by our new corporate partners at Porsche Motor Cars.

An army of 600 plus American Airlines employees are volunteering to help plan, support and serve Sky Ball. The mission of the Fort Worth Airpower Foundation is simple; to support families of military families facing severe financial difficulties during multiple deployments in Afghanistan, Iraq and elsewhere. At any given time, as many as half of the ten thousand Reserves and members of the National Guard based at Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base (NAS-JRB) in Fort Worth are deployed. Many of these men and women give up half of their civilian incomes, or more, when they are called to active duty. “These are our neighbors, and we will not stand idly by while they face severe financial burdens, so their loved one can go fight the War on Terror and defend our freedoms,” said Mike Snyder, Chairman of the Foundation and Sky Ball.

Sky Ball last year raised over $600,000 for the Navy-Marine Corps and National Guard Relief Fund and other needs at NAS-JRB. The Fort Worth Airpower Foundation is looking forward to the biggest and most successful Sky Ball yet. The Foundation will also announce its new strategic alliance with two important groups, the 091 Foundation and the Snowball Express Foundation, which will present an iBot wheel chair to an amputee wounded in Iraq. We will also surprise one family of a severely wounded soldier with presentation of an adaptive home being built by volunteers in north Texas.

Individual tickets to this gala event can be purchased for $150, with tables and Corporate Sponsorships starting at $1,500. Learn more and buy your Sky Ball tickets on the internet, at www.fwapf.org . For additional information about tickets or sponsorships contact please contact John Kinnear, Airpower Foundation Communications Director at johnkinnear1@yahoo.com or (512) 818-1371 or the main Foundation number (817) 237-3999.

About the Fort Worth Airpower Foundation: The foundation, (a non-profit 501(c)(3), established in 1958 one of our nation's oldest military support organization, is an associate entity of the Fort Worth Airpower Council, which is pledged to support the families of U.S. military troops, deployed in all efforts to protect and promote freedom. Specifically, the Foundation is committed to supporting the families of the men and women serving our country while stationed at the Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base Fort Worth, recognizing and honoring the NAS-JRB's importance to the community

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