To Benefit MDA Labor Day Weekend
To participate, bring your boat out to the Villages Marina on Lake Palestine Saturday, August 30th and register between 10:00 a.m. and 2:00 p.m. The entry fee is $25.00 per Boat and you will receive a map of Lake Palestine with 5 designated points on the lake marked. Concessions will be provided at the Marina by Snow Coney Island. Their famous "snow balls" are always a big hit with the kids.
The Game will begin that day at 2:00 p.m. Take your family and friends out boating and locate each of the 5 designated points marked on the map. When you locate each of the designated points, each boat will pick up one sealed Poker Card at each point. Each boat has until 7:00 p.m. to be back to The Villages Marina with all of their 5 Poker Cards.
Once all boats have returned, everyone’s cards will be revealed. The Boat with the best 5-card hand will be the Winner. The winner will get 50% of the pot the other 50% goes to MDA. For example, if 100 boats participate, the winner will receive $1250.00. HW Marine is also offering a bonus of $250.00 to the Winner if the boat that they are participating in was purchased from HW Marine in the last 2 years. In case of a tie, the Winner will be decided by drawing cards- highest card wins. There will also be sponsor-donated prizes given out.
The check from the Poker Run will be presented to MDA Live during the Telethon on Monday, September 1st. The 2008 Jerry Lewis MDA Telethon is the 43rd annual Labor Day show. It will be broadcast on 190 "Love Network" stations across the country and can be seen on the Internet at
www.mda.org. Locally, It will broadcast live on KETK/NBC Labor Day 7:00am-6:00pm. Some 40 million viewers in North America watch the MDA Telethon each year. At least 250,000 volunteers across the country will be involved in the Telethon over this Labor Day weekend.
The Telethon is the single most important fundraising event of the year for MDA. Funds raised help the Association carry on its fight against more than 40 neuromuscular diseases, including a worldwide program of basic and applied research, a nationwide network of comprehensive medical and support services, and extensive professional and public education.
The first incarnation of what would be the MDA Telethon was in the form of a series of specials produced in the 1950s, some featuring Jerry Lewis with partner Dean Martin. Even after the trauma of the Martin and Lewis breakup in 1956, Lewis remained committed to helping MDA and finding new ways to gain support for its cause. The first Telethon was held in June 1955 at Carnegie Hall in New York City. The 16 1/2-hour show raised $600,000 for MDA and was broadcast on DuMont station WABD. The first MDA Labor Day Telethon was broadcast in 1966 by just one station in New York City. It was the first televised fund-raising event of its kind to raise more than $1 million.
An "interactive" show long before the computer age popularized the term, the Telethon derives its drama from the ever-increasing fund-raising total posted on the tote board - by hand in 1966, now electronically. Jerry’s goal of raising "one dollar more" than the previous year’s amount has been more than met almost every year, thanks to the generosity and compassion of the American public.
Everyone has a favorite moment from the Telethon, whether it’s a Frank Sinatra performance, a great rock number from John Lennon, Led Zeppelin or Michael Jackson, or a classic bit of song-and-dance teamwork between Lewis and his close friends. Certainly one of the most unforgettable moments occurred on the 1976 broadcast, when Frank Sinatra brought Lewis’ estranged partner, Dean Martin, onstage for an impromptu reunion. The comedy duo had barely spoken for 20 years. The surprise embrace Lewis received from his old friend provided one of the most touching moments in the Telethon’s remarkable history.
East Texas Boaters can all have a great time with friends and family on the water at the Lake Palestine Poker Run while contributing to what will hopefully be the best year ever for MDA’s fund raising efforts.
You can pick up more information on the 1st Annual Lake Palestine Poker Run benefiting MDA at the Gander Mtn. store in Tyler, or by calling 903.561.5930.
Hope to see you there.
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