ml110
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PSA: Good excuse to eat out tonight!!!
Hi everybody!
just wanted to give you all a good excuse to eat out tonight! tonight, chili's restaurants are donating 100% of the profits to St. Jude's childrens cancer research hospital 
we have a group of 9 of us going! not that anybody needs an excuse not to cook on a weekday, but this is a good one
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HarleyGirlFLA
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Re: PSA: Good excuse to eat out tonight!!!
Definately a good excuse to eat out.
Chili's also has a wing in St. Judes
The Chili's Care Center at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital will house the Department of Radiological Sciences and will provide space for future expansion of inpatient activities and new research laboratories. Groundbreaking for this 300,000-square-foot facility occurred in August of 2004, with anticipated completion in March 2007.
The motivation for constructing the six-story, $114 million Chili's Care Center reflects the compelling need to modernize the facilities for Diagnostic Imaging and Radiation Oncology, as well as to provide for expansion driven by the availability of new technologies, particularly functional imaging and more precise radiation therapy.
Space on the first floor of the current ALSAC Tower, which will be vacated by Radiological Sciences, will become available for potential outpatient expansion. Thus, the project will create the opportunity for growth over the next decade in each of the hospital’s core activities.
Planners envision the Chili's Care Center as eventually having two towers, with one tower built now and a second tower constructed in the future. The Chili's Care Center will connect to the existing complex of buildings.
Radiation Oncology will occupy the Chili's Care Center’s plaza (basement) level, with Diagnostic Imaging located on the first floor. When the building is completed, the second floor will house an inpatient unit, the fifth and sixth floors will contain research laboratories, and offices for Radiation Oncology and Diagnostic Imaging will occupy two-thirds of the building’s third floor.
With the help of the architect, the SmithGroup, a flexible design will accommodate potential future growth while solving the complexities of maintaining continuity among the buildings that make up the hospital’s core complex.
My sorority is also very big with St. Jude. They are working on raising funds to name the Patient Care Floor in the new Chili’s Care Center.
Delta Delta Delta Fraternity
In November 1999, Delta Delta Delta Fraternity officially adopted St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital as its national philanthropic partner. Since that time, Tri Delta chapters across the country have raised money and awareness for the hospital in a variety of ways.
In September 2002, Tri Delta Executives agreed to a four-year, $1 million endowment for the hospital’s Teen Room, which was completed in January of 2005. The Teen Room provides a safe haven for patients to get away from parents, nurses and doctors and to be with kids their own age. It is equipped with the Internet, video games, stereos, and board games. It is a great place for teenagers to just hang out and be a teen.
Tri Delta has now taken on their new goal of raising funds to name the Patient Care Floor in the new Chili’s Care Center. In July 2006, this commitment was announced at Tri Delta’s 52nd annual convention in Hollywood, California. Tri Delta has pledged to raise $10 million over the next 10 years.
To date, Tri Delta has raised more than $3 million for the hospital. This donation is only made possible by the commitment of more than 115 Tri Delta collegiate chapters and from the support of the Tri Delta Executive Office.
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How disappointing.
