FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
October 18, 2004
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MEDIA - FOR MORE INFORMATION:
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BUY A CASE OF APPLES
GIVE A CHILD WITH CANCER
A WEEK OF FUN AT CAMP!
Six Point Kiwanis Club 22nd Annual Apple
Sale
Benefiting Driscoll Children's Hospital
Saturday, October 30, 2004
8am-4pm
$30 per case (approx. 80-100 apples per case)
(694-6401) for pre-sale tickets and information
(Corpus Christi, TX)) Welcome the Fall season
with some fabulous, crisp Red Delicious and Golden
Delicious Washington State Apples. The Six Points
Kiwanis Club is proud to host their 22nd Annual
Apple Sale, a benefit fundraiser for Driscoll Children's Hospital’s
“Camp for All” Cancer Camp. The event takes place Saturday,
October 30, 2004 from 8am-4pm at the hospital’s front parking
lot. Throughout the years, Six Points Kiwanis Club has been instrumental
with this event, raising nearly $200,000 for
the children of South Texas. Their mission is to improve the quality of
life for children and families in the Coastal Bend area.
An eighteen wheeler will deliver more than 800 cases
of Red Delicious Apples and 100 cases of Golden
Delicious Apples. All apples will be great to add to your favorite recipe
for apple pie, caramel apples, apple cake and apple tarts.
Pre-Sale Tickets are recommended!!! Apples
are $30 per carton. Pre-sale tickets can be purchased from any Six Points
Kiwanis member or by calling 694-6401. Ticket
holders should pick up their cartons on Saturday, October 30th. Walk-up
sales that day are also welcome. First come, first serve as apples are
limited. Cash, check and credit cards will be acceptable.

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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