On October 27th, the Friends of Metro Parks put on our 3rd annual gala fundraiser at Battelle Darby Creek Metro Park. This was our largest turnout yet, with over 100 people in attendance! A extra special thank you to our sponsors Korda Engineering, Setterlin Constructions, Shelly Materials and Paros Architecture & Development!

Of course, we it wouldn't have been an amazing night without our caterers, Together & Company, Straders Garden Center for providing decorations, our steadfast brewery partner Nocterra Brewing, our friends the Whirlybirds keeping the tunes up all night, and our great Keynote Speaker Coyote Peterson of Brave Wilderness.

Visitors ate, drank, and made merry during the event, and to top it all off, we made $1830 in raffle ticket sales alone!
Huge thanks to our donors for the Raffle: Studio 35, Homage, Jeni's, ZipZone, Johnny Velo Bikes, Scioto Made, Pure Imagination Chocolatier, Local Yokels Trading Company, Columbus Running Company, The Plant Gays, Heritage Cycles, Jack Wolfskin, California Pizza Kitchen, Brave Wilderness, and Syd Lifshin!

And of course, thank you to everyone who attended, and our board for doing such a great job planning. You are really the ones who made the event great!