Though it is still early November, Denver’s Christmas season got off to a bubbly start Sunday.
The 38th annual Champagne Cascade at downtown Denver’s Brown Palace Hotel ushered in the start of the holiday season. With the first sellout in five years, the hotel expected Sunday’s event to surpass the previous fundraising record, set last year at $32,500, with this year’s event benefiting the Denver Rescue Mission.
Boosted by a winning $20,000 bid from DraftKings chief legal officer R. Stanton Dodge to pour the champagne over the pyramid, the fundraising record should be smashed, though the hotel will have to calculate in drink sales after the event to get a final number…