As we reported back in April, Sarah Palin will return to Central Texas to keynote Care Net’s annual banquet on September 14. From The Waco Tribune's Sunday edition:
A Care Net official has said the Palin visit has been years in the making, with the group reaching out to her before her splash onto the 2008 presidential campaign scene and ensuing fame.Gov. Palin previously appeared in Central Texas at a Care Net fundraiser in Austin April 29 (see here and here).
Care Net operates a crisis pregnancy center in Waco and seeks to provide women with alternatives to abortion. Palin chose to carry her youngest child, Trig, to term after he was prenatally diagnosed with Down syndrome, which is chronicled in Palin’s memoir, “Going Rogue.”
Care Net CEO Deborah McGregor didn’t say how much money she thinks the banquet will raise, but predicted a boost for the organization’s programs.
“I expect that this year’s event will allow us to add 1,000 square feet of program service space to our existing location on Columbus” including six counseling rooms, a second waiting room and an additional ultrasound machine, McGregor said in an e-mail.
McGregor called the new machine “crucial,” citing a statistic that between eight and nine out of 10 women who get ultrasounds carry out their pregnancies.
Jim Hawkins, who along with wife Nell is also helping to fund the banquet, said he’s excited Palin’s coming into town. But the local couple had another reason to be excited, however.- JP
“She was going to stay in a hotel and was lining up security, so we kindly offered our house and she’s going to stay there,” Hawkins said, adding that “the sheriff’s office was gracious enough to provide security.”
The Hawkins, he said, are scheduled to host a get-together as part of the Care Net banquet the day Palin arrives.
For now, though, Hawkins said he’s reading Going Rogue.
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