Celebrity
wait night to benefit area Make-A-Wish
Special
to the Beacon
Published
10/05/2009
Pizza
Inn, Subway and Coco’s Coffee Shoppe of Booneville is hosting
a ‘celebrity’ wait night to benefit the Make-A-Wish
Foundation of the Mid-South.
Local
celebrities such as Booneville mayor Joe Eaton, Prentiss County
Miss Hospitality Sara Beth Michael, Prentiss County Chancery Clerk
Bubba Pounds, Baptist Memorial Hospital director of marketing/community
and industrial relations Sergio Warren, Booneville City Schools
Superintendent Rickey Neaves, Dr. Erik Dukes, First American Bank
First Vice President Billy Martin will be “celebrity”
waiters along with local wish kid Amber, and her family, to generate
tips and contributions to benefit Make-A-Wish Foundation of the
Mid-South.
One-hundred
percent of the tips and contributions generated by the celebrity
waiters will benefit the medically fragile children of Northeast
Mississippi waiting to have a special wish fulfilled.
In addition,
volunteers will be on hand to provide information about the work
of the Make-A-Wish Foundation.
Keith
Vaughn, who owns Pizza Inn, Subway and Coco’s Coffee Shoppe,
has generously agreed to donate 10-percent of sales from the ‘celebrity’
wait night to the Make-A-Wish Foundation of the Mid-South.
The Make-A-Wish
Foundation grants the wishes of children with life-threatening medical
conditions to enrich the human experience with hope, strength and
joy. Born in 1980 when a group of caring volunteers helped a young
boy fulfill his dream of becoming a police officer, the Foundation
is now the largest wish granting charity in the world, with 65 chapters
in the United States and its territories
With
the help of generous donors and more than 25,000 volunteers, the
Make-A-Wish Foundation grants a wish every 40 minutes and has granted
more than 184,000 wishes in the U.S. since inception. For more information
on the Make-A-Wish Foundation of the Mid-South, visit www.midsouth.wish.org/
and discover how you can share the power of a wish®. If you
know a child who could use our help, please call 800-264-9474.
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