Tri-City Children’s Dream Foundation, Inc.

Rich Hildebrandt, known to many as “JR” is always looking for ways to raise money for the Tri-City Children’s Dream Foundation Inc., a local organization which grants dreams to children with special needs. Some of our special children have gone to Disney World and some to NASCAR races. He and the Board of Directors feel it is time to move on and expand what the Tri-City Children’s Dream Foundation does. They want to build a special “Children’s Dream Retreat”, a place where the children and families can go to get away from the day to day routine and enjoy family time together, and not have to worry about any cost. The projected cost is about $1,000,000.00. How do they plan to raise $1,000,000.00?

Monday morning, October 6th at 9 am, from the boat dock of The Lure Bar & Grill located on the Wisconsin River outside of Nekoosa, JR climbed inside a giant pumpkin, donated to the Tri-City Children’s Dream Foundation, by the Central Wisconsin Pumpkin Growers, and paddled, pushed, and did what ever it took to get this giant pumpkin to the Mississippi River in Prairie du Chien. It worked out to be about 150 miles, which took 8 days. He had 8 stops along the way.

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