The 15th Annual War Against Breast Cancer Raffle-Auction will be held from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. and will feature a Cow Patty Bingo contest to win up to $500, princess performances, live music, food trucks, sweet treats, and an archery contest where each bullseye wins free steak for a year. Event admission and parking are free.
The Raffle-Auction will boast more than 300 items up for bid, including 30 Days of Dining with 30 gift cards to popular restaurants, a Wicked Ridge M-370 Crossbow with ACUdraw, flat-screen TV, wine and liquor-themed baskets, beauty session with a free full set of lashes, designer purses and bags, Ohio State gear, tickets to concerts, comedy shows, family fun parks and sporting events, toys galore and gift cards for shopping, gas and food.
General item tickets are 2 for $1. Tickets for items valued at $100 or more are $1 each, and tickets for items valued at $300 or more are $5 each. Winners do not need to be present for the 4:15 p.m. drawing on Sept. 27.
See a list of the items and a link to buy presale tickets at WarAgainstBreastCancer.com/fundraiser.
The Cow Patty Bingo contest, which starts at 1:30 p.m. on Sept. 27, will begin when a cow from Zoo-2-Go Animal Adventures is led into a fenced-in area that has been marked with a bingo-like grid and numbered from 1 to 200. The cow will pick the winner when it leaves a present on one of the numbered squares. This year’s prize is up to $500 and a Texas Roadhouse of Niles Butcher’s Basket. Only 200 tickets will be sold. Cow Patty Bingo tickets are $10 each and can be purchased at https://tinyurl.com/CowPattyBingoTickets until Sept. 26 or in person at the Sept. 27 event until the bingo’s 1:30 p.m. start time.
An archery contest will be held from 11:30 a.m. to noon on Sept. 27. Hit a bullseye to win steak for a year from Texas Roadhouse. Each attempt is $5. Visitors can test their archery skills for free before and after the contest.
Princesses from Castle On A Cloud Entertainment will entertain guests from 10 a.m. to noon. Acoustic entertainer Solo Sixstring will take the stage from noon to 3 p.m., followed by Jordan Smith who will be singing country and pop classics with her guitar from 3 p.m. to 4 p.m. The Little Red Food Truck and Stewart’s Smokin’ Backyard BBQ will be serving up fan favorite dishes all day long.
The event, which is sponsored by Texas Roadhouse – Niles, Hope Center for Cancer Care, Curtis Layer Design/Build, the Howland Hope Chest LLC and Realtor Darlene Kearney of Coldwell Banker/Schmidt Realty in partnership with the Trumbull County Fair Board, will help Stage 3 breast cancer survivor Colleen Case of Niles with her out-of-pocket medical expenses. Colleen, a mother of two teenagers, faces thousands of dollars in medical bills due to out-of-pocket expenses related to her aggressive cancer treatments and surgery.
The fundraiser, which serves as a kickoff for Breast Cancer Awareness Month that starts in October, is being organized by This Means War Against Breast Cancer, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization formed to help breast cancer survivors pay their medical expenses. The all-volunteer group has raised more than $200,000 for local survivors since 2011. This year’s event – the 15th annual fundraiser – also will serve as the group’s grand finale as the nonprofit plans to wind down its operations following the fundraiser.
