Queue For A Cause

The Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center (TTUHSC) Special Olympics Interest Group, a student organization, will host Queue for a Cause at 6 p.m. March 28 at the CapRock Winery, located at 408 East Woodrow Road.

Queue for Cause will include a banquet-style dinner, a live quarter auction and a silent auction. The main event of the fundraiser is the quarter auction in which each person has numbered paddles that correspond to numbered chips. These chips are drawn to determine the item winner. Individual’s paddles are put into play by giving a quarter per paddle that the individual wants to open to the auction of the item. The winner of the item is the first person who has a number drawn of a paddle in play.

Sam Debold, a second-year TTUHSC medical student, said this event will raise funds for the local Special Olympics program, specifically to help its new soccer program.

“The Special Olympics transforms lives through sports,” Debold said. “We want to encourage and sponsor unified sporting events throughout Lubbock and the Special Olympics is one of the world’s largest sports organizations for people with intellectual disabilities. Queue for a Cause proceeds will be going to Special Olympics South Plains.”

The mission of Special Olympics Texas is to provide year-round sports training and athletic competition in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual disabilities, giving them continuing opportunities to develop physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in the sharing of gifts, skills and friendship with their families, other Special Olympics athletes and the community.

For more information, to purchase a ticket or to make a donation, visit https://www.ttuhsc.edu/student-affairs/organizations/ or email Queueforacause@gmail.com.

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