Getting soggy for a cause:Dunking booth at Relay for Life event
Lighthouse Ministries of Warren County, Inc. Relay for Life team has come up with a unique way to raise some money for cancer research, according to Lighthouse president Nathan Smith. It seems the Lighthouse team is handling a dunking booth at the event this year, their first to participate in the event.
“People can come by and get three balls for a dollar and throw to dunk the individual in the dunking booth,” Smith said.
Smith realizes it’s not always so easy to get volunteers for the booth, but he says he has a solution he hopes will work for this problem.
“To get contestants for the dunking booth, and also to raise more money,” Smith said, “we’re going to take “warrants” out on people, kind of like the wanted posters back in the Western days.”
The warrants can be taken out, at a cost of $25, at Homeland Community Bank, which has agreed to handle the money for the Lighthouse fundraiser. “You can just go up to a teller and tell them you want to take out a warrant,” Smith said.
“Once we contact someone they have a warrant taken out on them, they have the option of either doing time served,” Smith said, “which is in the dunking booth with people trying to dunk them, or they can post bond of $25 to get out of having to sit in the dunking booth. It’s a fun way of trying to raise money at the event.”
Of course, if they don’t make bail, it’s behind bars in the dunking booth for them.
“It’s all in fun,” Smith said, noting he hopes no one will be inconvenienced or upset at the fundraising tactics. “It’s all for a good cause.”