MORAINE – Soccer was well-represented at the annual Dayton/Montgomery County Convention & Visitors Bureau Ambassador Breakfast this year, held at the Mandalay Banquet Center in Dayton. Approximately 260 people were in attendance, including hospitality partners such as hoteliers, attraction operators, event planners and sporting event directors including the Warrior Classic, Creek Classic and the Mead Cup. TourneyCentral was also present as an event sponsor.
“The Ambassador Awards Breakfast gives the Dayton/Montgomery County Convention & Visitors Bureau (CVB) and the community an opportunity to publicly say ‘thank you’ to the many meeting planners who select Dayton/Montgomery County over other cities as the site for their convention or special event,” says Jacqueyln Powell, President/CEO of the Dayton/Montgomery County Convention & Visitors Bureau.
The CVB presents leather flight jackets from Dayton, the Birthplace of Aviation as ambassador awards to a select group of honorees each year who bring their event to the Greater Dayton Area. This year’s winners were Matt Anderson of the Ohio District Council of the Assemblies of God – Youth Department of Fine Arts; Chris Cree, National Scrabble Association Players Championship; Wendee Debusk, National Warbird Operator Conference; Jeffrey Elmore, Alph Phi Alpha Fraternity; Jeff Hills, Cincinnati Flames Baseball Tournament; Susan Monnin, Monster’s Making It Count National Speaker Training and Thomas Ritchie, Ohio American Federation of State County and Municipal Employees Convention.
Nearly 130 Ambassador Award flight jackets have been awarded since the first breakfast in 1992.
PHOTO (contributed by Aulay Carlson, Ambient Light Photography, Inc.) Dale Huffman, columnist for the Dayton Daily News, introduces the Ambassador Awards recipients during the 2007 Dayton/Montgomery County Convention and Visitors Bureau Ambassador Breakfast.