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Skeet shoot helps fight diabetes
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The 4th annual Sporting Clays Tournament to benefit the American Diabetes Association (ADA) is planned for 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, April 14 at the Dorchester Shooting Preserve in Midway.
Lunch will be served at 11:30 a.m.
The event is sponsored annually in support of the Liberty County Kiss-a-Pig Campaign. This year’s effort is in support of the 2007 candidate, Angela Powell of Exit Team Realty.  
Powell is the 11th candidate to participate in the campaign to benefit ADA.
The tournament is the single largest fundraising event in the 15-year history of the Kiss-a-Pig Campaign in Southeast Georgia.
The entry fee is $500 for a 4-person team. The top five shooters will receive trophies, and prizes will be awarded based on Lewis Class Scoring.
The primary event organizer is Claude Dryden with Dryden Enterprises, who has three children with type 1 diabetes.
“The Liberty County community has supported ADA through Kiss-a-Pig for many years and this is our way of backing the community leaders who step up to help,” Dryden said.
Other organizers are Toby Roberts of Roberts International Trucking, John Meeks of Tidal Homes, and Al and Don Padrick of Sanitary Plumbing.
The Dorchester hosts are Charlie and Chuck Gaskins.
Platinum sponsors are: Dryden Enterprises, Sanitary Plumbing, Roberts International Trucks, The Heritage Bank, Tidal Homes, Jones Osteen & Jones Attorneys at Law, Coastal Package, Harris Ace Hardware, Moen, Countrywide Homes and Scott Abernathy
To register to shoot or for more information, contact Claude Dryden at (912) 369-7634. Proceeds support ADA, the nation’s leading organization dedicated to curing diabetes and improving the lives of all people affected by diabetes.
Diabetes is the nation’s fifth deadliest disease, killing more than 220,000 Americans each year. It is the leading cause of heart disease and stroke, adult blindness, kidney failure and non-traumatic amputations.
For more information about diabetes and ADA, contact Maria Center at (912) 353-8110, ext. 3091 or mcenter@diabetes.org
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