PRESS RELEASE

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
May 23, 2006

MEDIA - FOR MORE INFORMATION:
Deborah Perry Phone (361) 442-4538

KIDS HELPING KIDS!

LOCAL 4-H KIDS HOST UPCOMING LUNCHTIME AUCTIONS
TO BENEFIT PEDIATRIC HOSPITAL

LIVESTOCK, BAKED GOODS AUCTION ITEMS NEEDED

22nd Annual Cattleman’s Round Up
2006 dates (see below)
2006 locations throughout South Texas (see below)
Benefiting Driscoll Children’s Hospital

(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 22nd Annual South Texas Cattlemen’s Round Up, six grass roots, community fundraising events, will take place this summer throughout South Texas - all to benefit Driscoll Children’s Hospital and its young patients.

Special lunchtime auctions will be held during breaks from regular livestock sales action at auction houses. Items up for auction will include donated livestock, as well as baked goods, jellies, and vegetables. In addition, past non-traditional auction 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 2006 Cattleman’s Round Up dates.

2006 South Texas Cattlemen’s Roundup Auction events include:

Monday, June 12th: Live Oak Livestock Auction - Three Rivers, Texas
For donations, call Ismaro Cardenas County Extension Agent (361) 449-1703 or 4-H Club.
Tuesday, June 27th: Hallettsville Livestock Commission - Hallettsville, Texas
For donations, call Shannon DeForest County Extension Agent (361) 798-2221 or 4-H Club.
Friday, June 30th: Beeville Livestock Commission - Beeville, Texas
For donations, call Rusty Horn County Extension Agent (361) 362-3281 or 4-H Club.
Tuesday, July 11th: South Texas Auction Company - Alice, Texas
For donations, call Rogelio Mercado County Extension Agent (361) 668-5702 or 4-H Club.
Friday, July 14th: R.Y. Livestock Sales - Rio Grande City, Texas
For donations, call Rolando Zamora and Omar Montemayor County Extension Agent
(956) 487-2306 or 4-H Club.
Tuesday, August 1st: VFW Hall - Cuero, Texas
For donations, call Anthony Netardus County Extension Agent (361) 275-5132 or 4-H Club.

100% of this year’s proceeds will aid in the purchase of a new ambulance. Traveling more than 120,000 miles a year throughout South Texas, Driscoll’s 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, several days a week. 63% of the hospital’s transports are conducted by ambulance.

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.

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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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