Elizabeth Culp, Regional Development Director, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital

On today’s show we are delighted to welcome three special guests. Elizabeth Culp the Regional Development Director for  St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. Landon Capagli, Resource Planning Manager at Woodside Homes and Alexandria Seele, Sales and Marketing coordinator at Woodside Homes.

If I told you that for $100 you stand the chance, and a very good chance at that, of winning a newly built, 2,400 sq. foot, 4 bedroom, 3.5 bath, double garage and a beautiful backyard home located in the Sycamore at Cypress community right here in Rancho Cordova that was built by well-known developer Woodside Homes and  that is worth $750,000, and then I told you that no more than 9,000 people will be entered to win so the odds are extremely good, would you believe me?

Well it's absolutely true. The City of Rancho Cordova, Woodside Homes and other partners are making this happen. And the reason? to raise money for  St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital

In order to buy tickets visit

• Sacramento St. Jude Dream Home landing page https://www.stjude.org/give/dream-home/sacramento.html
• Call 24/7 to reserve a ticket:  800-564-8758

The Home is located at the Sycamore at Cypress community in Rancho Cordova

4304 Nobelton Way, Rancho Cordova, CA 95742

Free open house tours:

April 6 – April 21

Saturdays: 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Sundays: noon – p.m.

              Guests may register for free at the open house for a chance to win a $10,000 shopping spree, courtesy of Ashley®

 

About  St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital

 

As a young man, Danny Thomas had a simple goal: to entertain people and be successful enough at it to provide for his wife and family. But work wasn’t easy to come by. As he and his family struggled, his despair grew. He wondered if he should give up on his dreams of acting or find a steady job. He turned to St. Jude Thaddeus, the patron saint of hopeless causes. “Show me my way in life,” he vowed to the saint one night in a Detroit church, “and I will build you a shrine.”

That prayer to  St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital marked a pivotal moment in his life. Soon after, he began finding work, eventually becoming one of the biggest stars of radio, film and television in his day.

And as one of the world’s biggest celebrities, Danny used his fame to fulfill his vow to St. Jude Thaddeus and to change the lives of thousands of children and families with a unique research institute.

Danny’s shrine to St. Jude Thaddeus was originally to be a general children’s hospital located somewhere in the south. Danny’s mentor, Cardinal Samuel Stritch, recommended he look to Memphis, Tennessee, the cardinal’s hometown. By 1955 Danny and a group of Memphis businessmen he’d rallied to build the hospital decided it should be more than a general children’s hospital. At the time, the survival rate for childhood cancers was 20%, and for those with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) — the most common form of childhood cancer — only 4% of children would live

 

Danny began raising money for his vision in the early 1950s. By 1955, the Memphis business leaders who’d joined his cause also began local fundraising efforts. Danny also wanted to get the word out across the country about what he was doing and enlist the support of everyone he could.

 St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital opened its doors on February 4, 1962, based on Danny's dream that "no child should die in the dawn of life." Since then, we’ve made incredible strides in childhood cancer research. We’ve helped improve the survival rate of childhood cancer from 20% to 80%. And ALL, the disease with a virtual death sentence in 1962, now has a survival rate of 94 percent.

 

So let’s get right to the show and we are going to let our guests explain this exciting opportunity. So grab a pen and paper, and get ready to buy a ticket or more there’s no limit to your new dream home.