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Delaware North Companies recently published the first in PATHWAYS TO PLATE.

Delaware North Companies Travel & Hospitality Services earned numerous honors at the announcement of Airport Revenue News’ 2007 Best Concessions Poll Winners. Delaware North Companies operations at Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport helped the site pick up four first-place honors along with another second place award and a life-time achievement recognition.

The BALSAMS Grand Resort Hotel is delighted to announce the appointment of Douglas A. Ruttle, P.G.A., as Director of Golf.As his first order of business, Doug is proud to present the irresistible rate being offered this summer at the BALSAMS.From Sunday through Thursday, guests will have the opportunity to book the Golf Free Package for only $99 per night.This package includes lodging, breakfast in the main dining room, and 18 holes of golf. The package will be available from May 18th through June 28th and from August 26th through October 14th, 2007.

Wembley Stadium has signedTom Aikens, one of the United Kingdom’s most exciting and talented chefs, to create a range of special desserts to be feature on the restaurant menu of Wembley’s prestigious members’ club, The Corinthian Club.

World Space Expo, at Kennedy Space Center in Florida from November 3-11, 2007, announced today a weekend Aerial Salute by the U.S. Army Parachute Team Golden Knights as part of a 45th Anniversary tribute to Project Mercury.

Michael L. Coats has logged more than 5,000 hours flying time in 28 different aircraft, and more than 400 carrier landings. He flew his first space shuttle flight as pilot of the maiden flight of Discovery. After overcoming the first pad abort of the shuttle program, Coats and his STS-41D crewmates deployed a prototype solar array and three satellites. Coats' second flight was also his first command, again aboard Discovery on mission STS-29. Only the third mission after the tragic loss of Challenger in 1986, Coats' crew deployed a Tracking and Data Relay Satellite (TDRS) and performed a space station "heat pipe" radiator experiment. After nearly five days and 3,000 photographs taken of the Earth, Coats landed the orbiter in California. Commander Coats flew his third and final Discovery flight, STS-39, in 1991 on an unclassified Department of Defense mission. He and his crew deployed, operated and retrieved the SPAS-II spacecraft and performed research of both natural and induced phenomena in the Earth's atmosphere. Coats left NASA to pursue opportunities in the private aerospace sector, holding management positions at Loral Space Information Systems and Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company, where he most recently was vice president of Advance Space Transportation. In November 2005, Coats was name director of Johnson Space Center.

Major League Baseball recently announced Busch Stadium in St. Louis will be the site of the 2009 All Star Game.This gives Delaware North Companies Sportservice another chance to host a high-profile professional sporting event as the company is currently contracted to provide food service and retail operations at Busch Stadium.

Delaware North Travel Companies Hospitality Services welcomed media and fans alike to Austin-Bergstrom International Airport on February 2 for Texas football legend Earl Campbell's book signing. Campbell happily signed numerous copies of his book "The Tyler Rose" for airport visitors at BookPeople inside the terminal.

Asilomar Conference Grounds, home to the world’s largest collection of Julia Morgan-designed Arts & Crafts architecture, has completed a $1.2 million renovation to Morgan’s Grace H. Dodge Chapel Auditorium.A team of architectural, environmental and historic building specialists collaborated on the project, guided by original structural drawings borrowed from the engineering library at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo.

Delaware North in a joint venture with the Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority (MBTA) is proud to open a 20,000 sq. ft. expansion of Boston’s North Station train concourse area.Tracks and platforms have been moved back nearly 80 feet to substantially ease the congestion for all arena visitors and the more than 50,000 commuters who pass through the Garden each workday.This five million dollar expansion project, financed entirely by Delaware North Companies – Boston is sure to enhance the TD Banknorth Garden experience to Garden patrons and commuters alike.