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Organization: Samuel Dixon Family Health Centers Inc.
Date: September 10, 2008
Adopt Your Rubber Duck Now!
Samuel Dixon Family Health Centers Inc.'s Rubber Ducky Regatta Will Raise Funds for Health Care Services in the Santa Clarita Valley
Thousands of cute rubber duckies are in need of adoption. For just $5,
you can give a ducky a home while helping to provide much-needed
health care services in the community of Santa Clarita. As an added
bonus, your duck adoption automatically enters you into a chance to
win prizes on the day of the duck race, Samuel Dixon Family Health
Centers, Inc.'s (SDFHC) 6th Annual Rubber Ducky Regatta at Castaic
Lake on Saturday, Oct. 18.
Rubber ducks are available for adoption at $5 per duck. Other adoption
opportunities include: Quack Family (5 ducks plus 1 free duck for
$25); Quacker's Dozen (10 ducks plus 2 free ducks for $50) and Duck
Flock (20 ducks plus 4 free ducks for $100). Visit
www.duckrace.com/scv for more information on duck adoptions.
"The Rubber Ducky Regatta is a great family-oriented event that brings
the community together around a much-needed service: health care,"
Santa Clarita Mayor Bob Kellar said. "The City of Santa Clarita is
fortunate to have SDFHC here in our community to provide health care
to those in need, and the Rubber Ducky Regatta is the key event to
help raise funds for this cause." The City of Santa Clarita proclaimed
Sept. 9 as "Rubber Ducky Regatta Day."
Ed Bolden, whose company Andel Engineering is "Papa Duck" sponsor of
the event, shared similar sentiments. "We are very much looking
forward to our premiere fundraising event, the Rubber Ducky Regatta.
The mission of SDFHC is to serve those in our community who have
nowhere else to turn for health care services. Everyone who supports
this event and helps to make it a success is helping to provide better
access to health care in the Santa Clarita Valley," Bolden said.
Grand Duck Sponsor of the event is Providence Holy Cross. SDFHC also
thanks Lucky Duck Sponsors Henry Mayo Newhall Memorial Hospital and
Mission Valley Bank, Derby Duck Sponsor Kaiser Permanente, Shining
Duck Sponsor Chiquita Canyon, and Papa Duck Sponsor Ed Bolden of Andel
Engineering. Media partners for this event are: The Magazine of Santa
Clarita, Elite Magazine, The Signal, L.A. Daily News, KHTS AM 1220,
SCVTV, 661 Magazine and Smart Shopper, and Inside SCV Magazine.
SDFHC thanks all board members, volunteers and service group members
for their support of this event. Local service groups supporting this
event include: SCV Newhall Optimist Club, Soroptimists, SCV Jaycees,
The Greater SCV Optimist, SCV Sunrise Rotary, SCV Rotary, Kiwanis Club
of Santa Clarita, Zonta, Castaic Lions Club and B.P.O. Elks.
Los Angeles County Supervisor Michael Antonovich will serve as
honorary chair of the event, which will include a family festival
culminating in a rubber duck race at 1 p.m. for a chance to win
prizes. The fundraiser is an opportunity to enjoy a day at the lake
while helping to support health care services in the community. All
proceeds from the event will go toward patient care at SDFHC, which
offers affordable, quality primary health care for residents of the
Santa Clarita Valley. SDFHC makes a special effort to serve the
uninsured and underinsured. Last year's Rubber Ducky Regatta raised
$65,000 for patient care.
The event is scheduled to take place from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. For more
information, call (661) 257-2339, ext. 302 or visit www.sdfhc.org.
SDFHC operates three health centers in the Santa Clarita Valley—Canyon
Country Health Center, Val Verde Health Center and Newhall Health
Center—as well as outreach sites at College of the Canyons and
California Institute of the Arts. SDFHC offers a full range of health
care services—physicals, immunizations and vaccines, screenings and
diagnostic tests, well baby care, and family planning—to those who
may not seek health care elsewhere. Patients pay based on their
income. This past year, SDFHC provided service for 8,000 patient
visits.
Thousands of cute rubber duckies are in need of adoption. For just $5,
you can give a ducky a home while helping to provide much-needed
health care services in the community of Santa Clarita. As an added
bonus, your duck adoption automatically enters you into a chance to
win prizes on the day of the duck race, Samuel Dixon Family Health
Centers, Inc.'s (SDFHC) 6th Annual Rubber Ducky Regatta at Castaic
Lake on Saturday, Oct. 18.
