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LOCAL 4-H KIDS HOST UPCOMNG LUNCHTIME AUCTIONS TO PURCHASE NEW AMBULANCE FOR DRISCOLL

23rd Annual Cattleman’s Round
2007 Dates (see below)
2007 locations throughout South Texas (see below)
Benefiting Driscoll Children’s Hospital Transport Services

(Corpus Christi, TX) Going once…going twice…sold! Young 4-H members, as well as local barn owners and managers, ranchers and agricultural businesses, will combine efforts to help the kids of South Texas. The 23rd Annual South Texas Cattleman’s Roundup 7 grassroots, community fundraising events, will take place this summer throughout South Texas-all to benefit Driscoll Children’s Hospital’s Transport services and the over 1,000 kids yearly that are transported across South Texas.

Special lunchtime auctions will be held during breaks from regular livestock sales auctions at auction houses. Items up for auction will include livestock, as well as baked goods, jellies and gift baskets. In addition past non-traditional auctions items have included San Antonio Spurs tickets, quilts, birdhouses, rain gauges, work gloves, and signed Nolan Ryan posters. Auction items are still needed for the 2007 cattleman’s Round Up dates.

2007 South Texas Cattleman’s Round Up Auction events include:

• Monday, June 11th: Live Oak Live Stock Auction-Three Rivers, Texas
For donations, call County Extension Office (361) 449-1703 or 4-H Club
• Tuesday, June 19th: Hallettsville Livestock Commission-Hallettsville, Texas
For donations, call County Extension Office (361) 798-2221 or 4-H Club
• Friday, June 29th: Beeville Livestock Commission- Beeville, Texas
For donations, call County Extension Office (361) 362-3281 or 4-H Club
• Friday, July 13th: R.Y. Livestock Sales, Inc.-Rio Grande City, Texas
For donations, County Extension Office (956) 487-2306 or 4-H Club
• Tuesday, July 17th: South Texas Auction Company- Alice, Texas
For donations, County Extension Office (361)668-5702 or 4-H Club
• Saturday, August 4th: Edinburg Livestock Auction –Edinburg, Texas
For donations, County Extension Office (956)383-1026 or 4-H Club
• Tuesday, August 7th: VFW Hall-Cuero, Texas

For donations, County Extension Office Ngarza181@rgv.rr.com or 4-H Club

Last year these events raised $88,000 for a new ambulance. This year 100% of the funds will again go to the purchase of another new ambulance. Traveling more than 120,000 miles a year throughout South Texas, Driscoll Critical care transport services offer emergency, timely, comprehensive, advanced medical services for neonatal and pediatric trauma, acute cardiac and respiratory events, as well as emergency surgical and medical needs, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
Contributions of livestock, other auction items, as well as monetary donations are accepted and tax deductible. For more information about donating, please call (361) 694-6402.

About Driscoll Children’s Hospital
“Improve the health of adults and you give them back their health …
Improve the health of children and you give them their life.”

Since opening its doors in 1953, Driscoll Children’s Hospital has been offering hope and healing to the children of South Texas for half a century. The facility is a 189-bed pediatric tertiary care center with pediatric board-certified specialists representing 19 medical and nine surgical specialties. Each year, more than 6,000 children are admitted for inpatient care, 5,000 for day surgery, and 50,000 for outpatient primary and specialty care, as well as 40,000 for emergency care, as the first South Texas hospital with emergency services exclusively for children. Additionally, Driscoll maintains a state-of-the-art ground/air transport team, 20-bed pediatric intensive care unit, 40-bed neonatal intensive care unit, and specialized medical outreach.

www.driscollchildrens.org

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