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<p style="outline:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 18px;line-height:15px">The INKster heard from her old friend Henry Johnston this week asking if she would make mention of the March 23 annual KRFP Real Radio Dinner and auction at the 1912 Center in Moscow.</p>
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<p style="outline:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 18px;line-height:15px">"For what it's worth, I'll be donning my gold lamé tuxedo," Johnston wrote. "No, not really, but I promise I will look sharp as the emcee for the evening."</p>
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<p style="outline:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 18px;line-height:15px">Johnston describes the evening "as the kind of affair where beer, wine and appetizers will be served to those who attend the happy hour starting at 6:30 p.m. and include headline-makers, the avant-garde and the picks of the Algonquin Round Table."</p>
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<p style="outline:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 18px;line-height:15px">At 7 p.m., "an amazing dinner catered by the great chefs at Vlads will be served.</p></div><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-size:12px;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-size:12px;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;margin:0px;padding:0px;outline:0px">
<p style="outline:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 18px;line-height:15px">After guests are sufficiently full of appetizers and libations, there will be a raffle for a variety of "fabulous" prizes as well as a silent and live auction featuring donations from local businesses and KRFP supporters.</p>
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<p style="outline:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 18px;line-height:15px">"All the money raised goes to support Radio Free Moscow in their mission to bring you the best community, non-commercial radio known to humankind," Johnston explained. "We'll also be having a special moment where you can also donate specifically to the KRFP full power project."</p>
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<p style="outline:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 18px;line-height:15px">Johnston may have gotten an early start on the happy hour. Whatever!</p></div><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-size:12px;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-size:12px;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;margin:0px;padding:0px;outline:0px">
<p style="outline:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 18px;line-height:15px">Tickets are $30 per person and available at BookPeople of Moscow or online at <a href="http://kfrp.org/" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(69,125,157);outline:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px">kfrp.org</a> until Monday.</p>
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<p style="outline:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 18px;line-height:15px">"We are only selling 100 tickets and they are going fast," Johnston said.</p></div>