Join the Shipyard team on Friday, October 11 for our Annual Pumpkin Regatta! Race across the basin in our famous "pumpkins", to raise money for this year’s selected charity, The Confetti Foundation. Cost is $25/person and each team should have 4-5 members. If you want to come and enjoy food & beverage, cost is $25/person for a bracelet.
There will be several raffle items and an award given to the team with the FASTEST time and the BEST COSTUMES! Raffle drawing will take place around 6pm, you do not need to be present to win.
Please submit team entries to the Newport Shipyard Dock Office or sign up below by 1pm on Friday, October 11. Food from Wally’s Wieners is sponsored by Newport Rigging Group and Safe Harbor Newport Shipyard. Beverages sponsored by RC Marine Electric.
The Confetti Foundation was an official 501c3 non-profit organization and started supplying themed birthday party kits to children who had to spend their birthday in the hospital. Through the party kits, children of all ages are celebrated and honored on their special day.
Through the partnership of children’s hospitals, pediatric oncology clinics and pediatric Hospice facilities in the United States, The Confetti Foundation’s goal is to provide a themed birthday party, positive memories, and normalcy during a difficult time.
Background:
The idea for The Confetti Foundation was developed when event designer Stephanie Frazier Grimm’s Godson was born 8 weeks premature with many complications. Stephanie’s friend spent hours every day driving to her hospital’s Neonatal Intensive Care Unit caring for “Baby C” as he gradually grew stronger.
During those long drives, Stephanie and her friend would talk about their families, the weather, their jobs, the good times they had in college, and anything else that served as a much-needed distraction. One conversation led to Baby C’s hospital “buddy”, who was celebrating his 1st birthday. His entire life had been spent in the walls of the NICU.
Stephanie questioned what happened when children are in the hospital on their birthdays. Were they given a party? Who was responsible for getting all the decorations? After weeks of research, it was determined that all children were given a present from the hospital, but not matching decorations to have a themed birthday party. This was the responsibility of the families.
Having spent her own 13th birthday in the hospital and the fear of Baby C having to spend many birthdays hospitalized, she set out to make a positive change of how children’s birthdays were celebrated if they were hospitalized.
The Confetti Fund’s Goal:
Our 2024 goal is to raise enough funds so that we can supply 3000 boxes annually and be in all US Children's Hospitals, pediatric oncology clinics, and Hospice facilities in all 50 states! (we are waiting for Alabama, Alaska, Connecticut, Hawaii, Kansas, Maine, Maryland, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, South Carolina, South Dakota, Utah, West Virginia, and Wyoming to get on board!) More importantly, our goal is to bring communities together and share in our very own backyards. We need to ensure all sick children are celebrated on their special day!
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