On June 5, CBS 8 and Rady Children’s held a “Working Fur Kids” Giveathon, encouraging donations from the community to help raise much-needed funds to launch a Resident Canine Therapy Program to help ease the pain and suffering of children who are patients at Rady Children’s Hospital, California’s largest non-profit children’s hospital.
Find out more about this amazing program and how you can help: https://cbs8.com/kids
am charged up we have another Local Hero here the gold bone $20 a month imagine that when someone’s donating $20 a month how much that can do for R children’s hospital to have its resident K9 Therapy Program live with us here in Studio A we have Heather Meyers who’s taking calls we have our awesome volunteers at radies Super Dennis who’s been a great sponsor and a laurel cbs8 they are here answering your calls taking your donations making a difference and we have Sean Styles who is the man of many wonders but what’s so important and awesome is I’m sure that you have uh tuned in to his cooking with style segments and let me tell you when I watch him I am salivating and wishing oh can you come over to my house and make me dinner well that can actually happen it can you know we’re going to be doing an auction dinner uh it’s going to be for you and seven of your best friends the other seven will be whoever you decide you and then myself and my wife Molly come over and cook an absolutely gourmet meal we’re going to be working with some really great pveers uh a santti pasta I’m going to take this off because a lot of people are calling in on this line right now isn’t that great aente pasta uh Catalina offshore Seafood products uh San Diego wine company will do the wine pairing French Gourmet will do the desserts uh the folks over at Cecil’s meet I mean specially produce we’re working with the best local purveyors of products that take stuff to restaurants and we’re going to Custom Design This dinner for you it’s going to be an extravaganza and such a unique experience and you can make that happen you need to have your the person who’s having the highest donation who’s going to make the highest donation today you get a dinner cooked from sea Styles in your home that’s just incredible you know and these have become very very popular and so I I’ve had to limit the ones that I can do because we do them for promises to kids San Diego Food Bank uh the Surf Rider Foundation uh the the the surf Museum up in Oceanside so there’s a limit on these I don’t do them unlimited so there’s only six a year and this is going to be one of them wow so think about how incredibly unique this is but you can only make this happen if you are the highest donor today so we need you to donate today to make this happen to have a resident K9 Therapy Program at R Children’s Hospital they’re one of the top 10 children’s hospitals in the country and most Children’s Hospitals have some type of Resident K9 Therapy Program but R children’s does not but you know what you can make that happen today with your donation and every dollar counts but hey you want to make every dollar really really count you want to be the highest bitter get in on cooking with sea Styles you’ve seen it on cbs8 but now you you can live it and eat it and take in all of the goodness that sea Styles can offer you hear those ringings that is the phone ring that means that you are watching you’re wanting to help out you’re wanting to donate to make an impact on so many children’s lives who are being treated at R Children’s Hospital this volunteer right here I’m not going to interrupt her because she’s on the phone taking a donation but just before we went on air there was someone who called a man from The deler Kennel Club in Santi donated $1,000 those are the kind of donations you need let’s make it $5,000 he’s going to take all of his friends or tell all of his friends in the kennel to donate as well it’s about spreading the word it’s about donating telling your friends telling your family you don’t have to be a dog owner but you can all and you don’t have to have a child as well you want to make that difference in a child’s life who’s being treated at a hospital that can be very a scary situation for them and to be able to provide that Comfort this is what this resident K9 program can do they are specially trained dogs medically trained dogs who can respond and treat a child will be built into their treatment plan to be able to provide that comfort and also that distraction so please call in we have super Denis our awesome sponsors that are here during this hour we have cbs8 Anna Laurel who’s answering the calls we have sha Styles who’s answering the call and we have other radi children’s volunteers as well as the super dentist and then we have the anchor we have another anchor Heather Myers that’s here Manning the phones taking your calls so get on the phone with them make a donation and make this happen today AB we can do it today right now we can make this program happen this program as soon as all the donations come in could literally get launched today you can be a part of that you can be a founding member of this resident K9 Therapy Program and this is going to affect people families for years and years to come so that’s why it’s so important to kick start this get all the funding that they need to be able to help so many families I mean countless families we know R children is a top Hospital in our community and they do need this help this is all 100% based on donation we’ heard from kids today who said this would have helped their journey in the hospital so much more if they would have been had a dog by their side during it so very crucial for their recovery and everything in the hospital see