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Help send kids to camp

Arizona Daily Star
Tucson, Arizona | Published: 09.11.2008
Eat chili. Send kids to camp. Sounds like a winning combination, doesn't it?
Proceeds from the Fun Chili Cook-Off at Jonathan's Cork, 6320 E. Tanque Verde Road, Sept. 27 will help send local boys and girls to camp next summer. This annual fundraiser benefits the Arizona Daily Star's Sportsmen's Fund Send a Kid to Camp program.
More than a dozen chili-heads will compete for prizes from noon to 3 p.m., while professionals and the public sample and judge.
A $10 donation at the door allows you to sample chili until the last bit is gone.
This year's Fun Chili Cook-Off will feature tequila tasting in addition to a raffle for a golf putter, restaurant gift certificates, Diamondbacks tickets and a TV.
Since 1947, the Star's Sportsmen's Fund has helped send more than 33,000 children to camp. The Send a Kid to Camp program raises money so economically disadvantaged kids can go to YMCA, Boy Scout and Girl Scout camps and to the Camp Courage burn camp.
At least 97 cents of every dollar raised goes to send boys and girls to camp.
If you'd like to donate to the program, make out checks to Send a Kid to Camp and mail them to: Send a Kid to Camp, P.O. Box 16141, Tucson, AZ 85732-6141 or go online to www.azsendakidtocamp.org/ donations. For more information about the Chili Cook-Off call Jonathan's Cork at 296-1631.