Locals Help with Rehab Telethon
Glasscock 4-H Club senior members, county residents and popular Texas Country musician Pat Green have something special in common: all will be working to help West Texas Rehabilitation Center on Jan. 17. Green, a three-time Grammy award nominee, will be singing on stage at the Abilene Civic Center during Rehab’s 39th annual telethon.
Senior members of the Glasscock 4-H Club will be calling county residents prior to the telethon date to ask for monetary pledges. All pledges will be announced on television the evening of the event. Anyone wanting to pledge a donation may contact the Extension office at 432-354-2381.
“We hope our families and friends will mail in their donations prior to the event using pledge cards mailed by the Rehab Center in early December, or make a pledge when called,” said Charlene Belew, phone bank coordinator and County Extension Agent for Family & Consumer Sciences of Glasscock County, “because the Rehab Center makes a difference every day in the lives of many area residents.”
The telethon will be carried by 10 statewide television stations, including KWES-TV, Channel 8, Midland/Odessa. Joining Green on stage will be hosts Charlie Chase and Red Steagall, as well as many other entertainers.
Also, the telethon features an auction of more than 400 items ranging from ag items and electronics to furniture and travel packages that have been donated by businesses and individuals. Items can be seen and bids placed on the website at www.westtexasrehab.org. In addition, an auction tabloid describing all items, including toll-free bidding numbers, will be published Jan. 17 in the San Angelo Standard-Times.
Traditionally, the benefit raises more than $1 million for Rehab’s operating expenses of facilities in Abilene, San Angelo and Ozona. WTRC staff provides outpatient rehabilitation treatment services to more than 23,000 patients each year – regardless of their financial circumstances.
For more information on services provided by the Rehab Center, call 325-223-6300.