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Texas County Memorial Hospital employees have planned Pirates of the Piney Regatta on Saturday, September 9 at Boiling Spring Resort in Licking from 1 to 7 p.m.
Pirates of the Piney Regatta features a cardboard boat race, a rubber duck race, live music and barbeque to benefit the construction of a new surgery department at TCMH.
Bill Bridges, one of the event organizers and TCMH emergency medical services director, believes the cardboard boat race will be the first of its kind in Texas County. The race will take place between the Boiling Springs bridge and the Boiling Springs river access ramp on the Big Piney River.
Adults and youth ages 16 and under can enter the race with vessels made entirely of cardboard. Each vessel must have two people inside it, and life vests must be worn. There is a $50 entry fee per boat.
Prizes will be awarded to the “people’s choice” of all cardboard boats, and there will be prizes awarded in the adult and youth categories for fastest and most creative boats.
A rubber duck race will also take place between the bridge and ramp. A duck can be sponsored for $5 the winner of the fastest rubber duck will win half the prize money, up to $250.
Boiling Springs Resort is hosting the musical entertainment and festivities for the day.
Taylor Feighery, an acoustic guitar player and singer from St. Louis, will perform at 1 p.m. Joshin the Giants, a four-piece Americana band from Joplin, will perform at 4 p.m.
Mike and Julie’s Smoked Meats will be on site with barbeque and fried potato nachos. TCMH employees are staffing a beverage tent.
“Many hospital employees choose to support the hospital’s ongoing construction by donating every pay period to the TCMH Healthcare Foundation, but we wanted to find another way to support our hospital,” Bridges said.
Bridges explained that he and other department managers in patient care departments at TCMH decided that an outdoor activity on a local river would be “different but fun”.
“We hope that the community will join us in having a good time outside for a great cause,” Bridges said.
Entries in the boat race are still being accepted by Bridges. Rubber ducks are available for sponsorship, too.
For additional information about the event, to register a boat, or to sponsor a rubber duck, contact Bill Bridges, TCMH emergency medical services director, at (417) 967-1385 or [email protected].