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Aflac, Cartersville Businesses To Sponsor Bartow's Amazin' Race
Twelve teams with two competitors each will complete challenges in the first-ever Bartow's Amazin' Race, set for Aug. 23 and 24.
Already $40,000 toward their $100,000 goal, organizers of Bartow's Amazin' Race say Aflac has signed on to sponsor the event in support of native Cartersville native and resident Kim Cowart, who was diagnosed with kidney failure and needs life-saving kidney and pancreas transplant surgery.
Twelve teams with two competitors each will complete challenges Aug. 23 and 24 in the first Bartow's Amazin' Race. The teams also are competing to raise the most money to help the Cowart family with the high costs associated with organ transplants, according to the press release.
“It is heartening, and downright amazing, to see what a small group of passionate people can accomplish when they band together," Isaac Hall with Aflac Cartersville said in the release. "Aflac Cartersville is proud to be the Race Sponsor for Bartow’s Amazin’ Race, honored to help Kim and her family, and bring awareness to the realities of organ transplants.”
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So far more than 20 companies and 200 individual donors have stepped up to generously support Bartow’s Amazin’ Race and Kim, who is married to Brad Cowart. Their 19-year-old daughter, Madison, is a competitor on Team 1.
Other corporate supporters include:
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- Terry Reid Hyundai (providing the cars to transport the 12 teams to their challenges),
- 1st Georgia Home Mortgage (the T-shirt sponsor),
- Stiles Jewelers (the Starting Line and Challenge 1 sponsor),
- Georgia Power (the overnight camp sponsor),
- Industrial Construction Services (the Finish Line Finale sponsor),
- Children’s Dental Center,
- C&C Gutters,
- Quest Global Trucking,
- Backyard Building Movers Inc.,
- Northwest Georgia Women’s Expo,
- Louie’s Café,
- Josh and Tamara Brock,
- Riverside Auto Group,
- Georgia Fitness Academy,
- Cair Plus Fitness,
- Preferred Heating and Air Conditioning,
- Hyde, Hyde & Hyde
- Tilley, Deems, Helton & Trotter – Attorneys at Law
- F. Lee Perkins – Attorney at Law,
- Stephenson Engineering and
- RE/MAX Highlands Realty.
Public Invited to Start, Finish Lines
The two-day event will consist of multiple challenges each day, an overnight stay and an exciting race-to-the-finish-line at Pettit Creek Farms in Cartersville, all beginning at 4 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 24.The public is invited to attend both the Starting Line Challenge 1 at the beginning of the race and the Finish Line Finale festivities.
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