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RiverKings will host Baddour Center on Friday during Mudbugs game

March 10, 2004 - Central Hockey League (CHL)
Mississippi RiverKings News Release


SOUTHAVEN, Miss.—The RiverKings will spotlight the Baddour Center, a non-profit residential community for adults with mental retardation on Friday, March 12 when the team hosts the Bossier-Shreveport Mudbugs at the DeSoto Civic Center at 7:05 p.m.

The Baddour Center has been taking part in a season-long ticket-sales fundraising program with the RiverKings, from which they will receive 50 percent of the proceeds from all the tickets they sell. A group of 40 Baddour residents will be attending the March 12 game, and Gloria Lenhoff, a Baddour resident and nationally-renowned soprano, will sing the National Anthem.

The Baddour Center is located in rural Senatobia, Miss. Residents live in a group home setting, attend social activities, work and worship on a 120-acre campus of land originally donated by the Baddour family.

"Our primary goal is to promote the self-sufficiency and self-worth of individuals with mental retardation," said Kerry Hayes, Public Relations Manager for The Center. "The Baddour Center is a place where men and women with mental retardation can lead lives of dignity and hope. Residents can achieve goals, develop life-long friendships and reach their God-given potential."

RiverKings Community Relations Director Michael Rice said the greatest contribution the Baddour Center makes to north Mississippi and the Greater Memphis area is not just that they serve an often overlooked sector of the population, but that they do it well.

"The Baddour Center enables the men and women whom they serve to not only live for long periods of time as independently as possible, but it helps them find fulfillment in the life they live," Rice said. "The residents of Baddour Center are hard-working productive citizens who each have a talent or contribution they can make to the greater community, and the Baddour Center helps them to find and develop those skills."

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