Super Star Bartender Bash on the Lake

The Super Star Bartender Bash is a friendly, amateur bartending competition between 12 Local Celebrities, Business People and Community Do Gooders.   This is our third annual Bash benefiting the Southern Tier AIDS Program and promoting the AIDS Ride For Life on the inlet at the Boatyard Grill.  Each bartender serves fun summer non alcohol drinks, beer, wine and soda to the attending guests.  The 'Startender' who earns the highest amount in tips is crowned with an AIDS Ride For Life bicycle helmet, receives a plaque and a $50 gift certificate to the Boatyard Grill. Tips can be collected in advance as soon as you commit to be a bartender so tip heavy!.   Music.....Stand Up Comedy......Song...... and a lovely buffet of appetizers for $10 each!  No cover charge!

Our Super Star Bartenders are:
ROUND 1 – 4pm
Chris Allinger, CRG Radio Group
David Archer, Head Coach Cornell Football
Jim Bouderau, Executive Director, SPCA
James Dean, Bartender Extraordinaire Ithaca Coffee Company

ROUND 2 – 5pm
Svante Myrick, Mayor, City of Ithaca
Steve Nunley, Managing Director Kitchen Theatre
Zack Stanek, Moving Box Studios
Joey Steinhagen, Executive Director, Moving to Places

ROUND 3 – 6pm
Kevin Morrin, Tompkins Insurance Company
Joanne Taormina, Owner Ithaca MBSR
Vicki Taylor Brous - Owner Brous Consulting
Ray Weaver, Public Affairs Coordinator, Cornell Cooperative Ext.          
 
Master of Ceremonies - Jerry Dietz, Co-Founder, AIDS Ride For Life
Entertainment:  DJ Toby
Stand Up Comedy: Kenneth McLaurin, Maryanne Donnelly & Bryan Van Campen
We will also have several singers break out with song.
 
"Fun is Mandatory" ~ Russ Traunstein, Co- Founder, AIDS Ride For Life