Town of Port Royal issued the following announcement on July 15.
“Beaufort/Port Royal Fire Department partners with the Beaufort Water Festival to raise money for the MUSC Burned Children’s Fund through collecting aluminum cans”.
The City of Beaufort/Town of Port Royal Fire Department and the Beaufort Water Festival have teamed up together for a good cause. Throughout the Water Festival, when you bring your empty aluminum can to a designated station at the Waterfront Park you will get a free ticket to use towards your next beverage. The aluminum can donations benefit Camp ‘Can’ Do, a camp designed just for burned children at Camp St. Christopher on Seabrook Island in Charleston, South Carolina. The cans will be loaded in one of the designated burn fund trailers and brought to the recycling scrap yard by firefighters. Firefighters will then donate the funds from the aluminum cans to the MUSC Burned Children’s Fund.
“We are so thankful for this partnership. It cost approximately $500 per child to send to camp each year. By having this partnership with the Beaufort Water Festival, we are hoping to be able to send at least 2 children to camp next year” said Assistant Chief and President of the MUSC Burned Children’s Fund Ross Vezin. The Water Festival will run from Friday, July 16th through Sunday, July 25th.
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