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For Immediate Release on June 15, 2008
Rinehart Clinic Presents Both Fireworks and Auction Fun
Rinehart Clinic Executive Director Ellen Boggs invites visitors,
friends, and neighbors to join with the Clinic in providing medical
care to all in our community. “One way people can help is for people
to support our fundraising activities. Our fireworks booth and The
Rinehart Clinic Sand Dollar Auction are fundraisers that help to
provide care to patients who have no medical insurance or
prescription drug coverage.”
The Fireworks Booth will be open 10 AM to 6 PM from Monday,
June 23 through Saturday, July 5. July 6 will be half-price day.
The booth will be located in the parking lot next to the Manzanita
Grocery & Deli on Laneda Avenue in Manzanita. All workers at the
booth are volunteers, and all profits go to The Rinehart Clinic.
Along with legal fireworks, there will be many non-fireworks items
for sale. Having a patriotic theme there will be flags, hats, beach
balls, wristbands, pinwheels, and of course that best selling
patriotic rubber duck. A new item this year will be hats for
patriotic dogs.
The Fourth Annual Rinehart Clinic Sand Dollar Auction takes
place on August 16th. The clinic’s 95th
anniversary year will be celebrated with Tillamook County’s largest
and most glamorous tented event, featuring a silent auction and
cocktail party, followed by a multi-course catered dinner and live
auction.
Collection of items for the auction is taking place at the Rinehart
Clinic. You may call Ellen at 503-368-5189 with questions about your
donation or sponsorship. Auction items already donated can be seen
on the Rinehart Clinic website,
www.rinehartclinic.org. In order to have the items documented
and photographed for the web site, items should be received August 1st.
Popular auction items include boating trips, resort/hotel/motel
stays, brunch/dinner packages (either from restaurants or at private
homes), gifts of food /wine/coffee-and especially chocolate,
original art items and jewelry. A sponsorship in the form of an ad
for your business, your recognition of a loved one, or your tribute
to the Clinic will be placed in our auction catalog.
The Rinehart Clinic is a federally designated rural health clinic.
Our mission is to provide health care to all, regardless of ability
to pay. Auction proceeds will support the clinic’s mission in two
ways. First, proceeds will provide care for the one-fourth of our
patients who do not have health insurance and whose income is below
the federal poverty level. Second, part of the proceeds will go to
the Rinehart Endowment Fund, interest from which will provide care
for generations to come.
Information for this article has been provided by Ellen Boggs
503-368-5189/ellenboggs@nehalemtel.net and Patty Rinehart
503-368-6081/pattyrinehart@nehalemtel.net.
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