Newton, NC – Join us for the Project Lifesaver International Car Show on May 22, from 10 am till 3pm. This family friendly event will feature door prizes, 50-50 raffle, trophies, a silent auction, and live music! Food and drinks will also be available for purchase.
Registration for Cars, Trucks and Motorcycles is only $20. Please make all checks out to Project Lifesaver. The event opens at 8am for vendors and car show participants. Call or email Sandy Austin for details at 828-640-9052, or [email protected].
All proceeds will go to Project Lifesaver to help people with Alzheimer’s, Autism, and Dementia in Catawba County. This event is being sponsored by the Catawba County Sheriff’s Office at the Hickory American Legion Fairgrounds, located at 1 American Legion Ave., Newton, NC 28658.
More information about Project Lifesaver: Project Lifesaver is a 501 (C)(3) community based, public safety, non-profit organization that provides law enforcement, fire/rescue, and caregivers with a program designed to protect, and when necessary, quickly locate individuals with cognitive disorders who are prone to the life threatening behavior of wandering.
The necessity of this program was determined through the correlation between cognitive conditions and the act of wandering. With the dramatic increase of cognitive conditions since the inception of the organization, the program has grown from a localized program to a program recognized internationally as a proven and effective method of “bringing loved ones home.”
Project Lifesaver was the first to apply such locating techniques to aid in the search and rescue of individuals, and is the most widely used and proven most effective program in the nation that is specifically designed to protect the “At Risk” populations in our communities. The program was structured in a way that strategically combined state of the art locating technologies, innovative search and rescue methods, and community policing courses that educated first responders about cognitive conditions. The search times for certified Project Lifesaver agencies have been reduced from hours, potentially days, down to minutes. Recovery times for Project Lifesaver agencies average 30 minutes, which is 95% less time than standard operations without Project Lifesaver.
