BREAKFAST WITH SANTA TO BENEFIT ARKANSAS CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL
Event to feature firefighters, food and fun – all for a great cause

LITTLE ROCK, Ark.– Santa Claus is coming to town…on a big, red fire truck.  Breakfast with Santa will be held Saturday, Dec. 5 at Children’s Hall on the Arkansas Children's Hospital campus.  Sponsored by Committee for the Future, Breakfast with Santa is an annual fundraiser for ACH. At the event, local firefighters from the Little Rock Fire Department cook and serve attendees a meal of pancakes, eggs, sausage and fruit. The children in attendance have the opportunity to take a picture with Santa, create holiday crafts, call the North Pole and enjoy festive music.  The event begins at 7 a.m. on Saturday, when Santa Claus arrives on a fire truck. The festivities will end at 12 noon. Tickets are $10 per person in advance, $15 at the door and can be purchased online at http://www.archildrens.org/breakfastwithsanta

Committee for the Future is a group of young professionals in the Central Arkansas area who work together to raise funds and awareness for Arkansas Children’s Hospital.   In the past 20 years, the Committee has raised over 5 million dollars to purchase equipment, fund life-saving research, endow a chair in Genetics/Genomics or simply make the hospital a friendlier place for its special patients. For more information, call the Arkansas Children's Hospital at (501) 364-7231.

Source:  Arkansas Children's Hospital Foundation
Little Rock, AR  72202

Note:  The Poultry Federation is a proud sponsor of "Breakfast with Santa" by contributing the eggs for the event.  TPF is a tri-state, non-profit trade organization representing the poultry and egg industry.  In 2008, Arkansas ranked 8th in egg production; producing 3.1 million eggs with a production value of $418 million.  (Production statistics from NASS-USDA May 2009 Summary)