The 4th Annual Pink Bandana Ball will be held at the First Tennessee Pavilion Saturday. It begins at 6:30 p.m. with live music by the Beaters, casino games, silent and live auctions, mechanical bull ridin’, appetizers, dinner, ice cream, libations, boot scootin’ and minin’ for gems.
Tickets may be purchased at www.emilyspowerforacure.com. Tickets are $100 fer individuals and $1,000 for a sponsored table of eight. Tickets are also available at the door the evening of the event.
Auction items include:
A fire hall-themed deluxe playhouse just for the kids, complete with a loft and a roll-up fire door. This 2-story deluxe playhouse features a realistic firehouse pole, lockers and seating.
Cowgirls-only getaways, city-style and country-style.
VIP Riverbend passes to headliners Sheryl Crow, Allison Krauss, Darius Rucker and the Charlie Daniels Band.
A quail hunt for four, club tickets to the Braves and Titans v. Colts tickets.
Getaways to Santa Rosa Beach, Savannah, Gatlinburg and Disney
Private dinner for eight in your home with executive chef Charlie Loomis from Greenlife Grocery, including professional housecleaning service.
The Pink Bandana Ball is a fundraiser for Emily’s Power for A Cure, which funds research to find a cure for neuroblastoma while supporting families and children who are currently in treatment for this disease.
Each year 600-700 children are diagnosed with this disease in the U.S. and currently there are five children in the Chattanooga area who are actively fighting this disease.
In the past four years, four children from Chattanooga have died. The survival rate for high risk neuroblastoma is only 30%, a figure that has remained almost the same for 30 years.
Emily Ransom was diagnosed with Stage IV neuroblastoma in October 2005. This beautiful, strong-willed little girl known as the Pink Power Ranger Princess fought with everything she had for four months to beat her cancer. On Feb. 20, 2006 while undergoing surgery to remove her tumor, Emily won her battle and went to dance in heaven.
Her family wishes to continue her fight and find a cure for this disease. Emily’s Power for a Cure is her fight against cancer carrying on. While the goal of the foundation is to raise awareness and funds to find a cure for neuroblastoma, there are more immediate needs for families and children fighting this disease. The foundation, Emily's namesake, was founded in 2006 by Emily's parents Jonathon and Wendy Ransom.