WABASH, IN- The Wabash Kiwanis Club will continue its Bucket Brigade fundraising tradition on Saturday, July 29, at four locations in Wabash, with all proceeds going directly to Riley Hospital for Children.
The event will take place at four local locations this weekend. Members of the local Kiwanis Club will stand with buckets in hand for customers to drop in change or cash donations. One-hundred percent of donations collected on this day will go directly to Riley Hospital. The local Club has raised more than $40,000 for Riley through this tradition over the years.
The Club would like to thank the local businesses and organizations that will allow the Club to fundraise at their locations on Saturday:
-Walmart of Wabash, 1601 N. Cass St., from 10 a.m. – 2 p.m.
-Wabash Hardware & Rental, 1351 N. Cass St., from 10 a.m. – 2 p.m.
-The Fried Egg, 1319 N. Cass St., from 8 a.m. – noon
-Wabash Farmers Market (intersection of Market and Cass streets), from 8 a.m. – noon
“Last year was a special year for our Bucket Brigade fundraiser as it represented a quarter-century of just one of the ways we support Riley Hospital for Children,” Mike Keaffaber, Wabash Kiwanis Bucket Brigade chairperson, said. “Everyone knows someone who’s had their life positively affected by Riley Hospital.
“Thank you to the area businesses, as well as Downtown Wabash, Inc., that have allowed us to fundraise at their locations as their customers enter. We hope they’ll have donations in hand as they walk in or out. We’ll have our buckets and smiles ready.”
For more than 100 years, there’s been a deep relationship between the Kiwanis
Indiana District and Riley Children’s Hospital, dating back to before the hospital’s doors were even open to Hoosier children. The Indianapolis facility opened in 1924, with 1,200 children treated that first year. Hoosier Kiwanians began fundraising for Riley Hospital as early as 1919.
Just a few of the Kiwanis Indiana District projects benefiting Riley Hospital over
the years include a $50,000, 50-bed Kiwanis K-Wing (1926), outpatient clinics (1950), staff facilities (1956), SIDS early detection assistance (1978), new chassis and cab for Newborn Transporter (1983), remodeling for state-of-the-art emergency room (1990), new Mobile Intensive Care Unit (2003) and pediatric diabetes research (2012).
Once again, the Club invites the community to come out on Saturday, July 29, in
in order to support this vital asset to the youth of Indiana. While out shopping this upcoming weekend, the Club encourages everyone to visit the aforementioned locations and make a donation of cash or change to this worthy cause.
And for those who can’t make it to the fundraiser at the above locations that
day, but still want to support the local Club’s commitment to benefit Riley, they can send a check to the Wabash Kiwanis Club at P.O. Box 699, Wabash,
IN 46992, with “Bucket Brigade” listed in the memo line.
