De Young Properties breaks ground at the site of 11th annual St. Jude Dream Home® house
Clovis, CA (April 23, 2014) – De Young Properties broke ground on the 11th annual St. Jude Dream Home® house on Wednesday, April 23. The home is to be raffled for the benefit of St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. The home will be located in the De Young CountrySide community in Clovis, California. Representatives of De Young Properties, KMPH FOX 26, Business Street Online, The Fresno Bee, Univision Radio, Alpha Delta Kappa, national sponsors Brizo®, Shaw Floors, and Trane as well as several subcontractors and suppliers were all in attendance for the momentous occasion. This year is the eighth year that De Young Properties will be the builder of the St. Jude Dream Home.
“The life-saving work at St. Jude is simply inspiring,” said Ryan De Young, vice president at De Young Properties. “It is the largest pediatric cancer research hospital in the world, and it develops cures to save the lives of children everywhere, including children in the Central Valley.”
To learn more about the St. Jude Dream Home Giveaway in the Central Valley or to be involved as a sponsor please visit dreamhome.org About St. Jude St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital is leading the way the world understands, treats and defeats childhood cancer and other deadly diseases. St. Jude has the world’s best survival rates for the most aggressive childhood cancers, and treatments invented at St. Jude have helped push the overall childhood cancer survival rate from 20 percent to 80 percent since we opened more than 50 years ago.
St. Jude is working to drive the overall survival rate for childhood cancer to 90 percent in the next decade. St. Jude freely shares the breakthroughs we make, and every child saved at St. Jude means doctors and scientists worldwide can use that knowledge to save thousands more children. Families never receive a bill from St. Jude for treatment, travel, housing or food – because all a family should worry about is helping their child live. Join the St. Jude mission by visiting stjude.org or following St. Jude on facebook.com/stjude and twitter.com/stjude.
