What Do Breast Cancer and Pink Rubber Ducks Have In Common?
Tarshia Boutte, an instructor at ExecuTrain Houston, was featured on Channel 2 news yesterday evening (October 7) and hosted an online live chat with users to discuss breast cancer awareness in celebration of breast cancer awareness month. ExecuTrain Houston helped to sponsor an upcoming fundraising event that Tarshia and her teammates are putting together - The 2nd annual Punk Rubber Duck Regatta. Tarshia is on a dragon boat team called The Pink Phurree Breast Cancer Survivor Dragon Boat Team. Their team is hosting a fundraiser to raise money to purchase their own dragon boat. ExecuTrain of Houston helped to sponsor by donating a prize for their raffle. Here is some general information on the event.
The Pink Phurree (pronounced “fury”) Breast Cancer Survivor Dragon Boat Team is Texas’ 1st year-round bcs dragon boat team. A dragon boat is a 40′ Teflon coated wooden canoe with 20 paddlers, a steers person, and a drummer. The Pink Phurree participates in two big regattas in the Houston-area (they have travelled as far as Windsor Canada to race) and the next one is October 17-18 at the Fluor Daniels complex in Sugar Land, Texas. The regatta is part of the International Dragon Boat Festival and is FREE to spectators, but you also can still register a team to compete. Just contact Texas Dragon Boat Association if you are interested in paddling.
Pink Phurree is hosting their 2nd Pink Rubber Duck Regatta on Sunday Oct 18th at around 12 noon. The Pink Rubber Duck Regatta is a fundraiser to help purchase their very own pink dragon boat so that they can reach more breast cancer survivors in the Great Houston Area and beyond to adopt the very therapeutic sport of dragon boating. The dragon boat, which takes about 4 months to construct and then shipped from Asia to the Pacific Northwest US to Houston, costs about $15,000 with trailer. So ANY assistance is greatly appreciated.
Your help is needed in a number of ways:
For just $5, you can sponsor a duck in the pink rubber duck regatta and if your duck crosses the finish line in the lead pack, you can win a fabulous prize including:
- an automatic transmission bicycle donated by Bike Barn
- Gas grill
- a $700 wellness sampler package donated by Memorial Hermann Wellness Center
- a couple of months supply of meat products donated by Eddy’s Meat Company
- an HDTV with wall mount donated by Walmart and Design, Security, Controls, LTD
- computer software classes donated by CompuTrain Business Solutions and ExecuTrain of Houston
- $250 gift card donated by Target
- $200 gift certificate donated by Gallery Furniture
- $20 Blockbuster gift card donated by Pink Phurree
- $50 gift card(s) donated by Casa Ole
- Gift card from Finish Line Sports
- IPOD shuffle donated by El Paso Energy
- HP Printer donated by El Paso Energy
CLICK HERE to pay by credit card on-line or checks made payable to PINK PHURREE and mailed to:
Pink Phurree Pink Rubber Duck Regatta
11645 Hwy 6 South
PMB 105
Sugar Land, Texas 77498-1302
You can download, submit, or print out registration form from website. You can get more information about Pink Phurree and our Pink Rubber Duck Regatta here.
Or you can sponsor duck from a Pink Phurree member at participating Casa Ole’s on Oct 2nd for Pink Fiesta Friday and every Tuesday in October for “Make Tuesday’s Matter” and at the Gulf Coast International Dragon Boat Regatta in Sugar Land on Oct 17 and Oct 18 (before the duck race).