500 free tickets to the giant water slide are on the table; city agency steps ... - LancasterOnline
So she turned Monday to The Mix at Arbor Place, the city agency that stands to benefit most from the event. “Anything that benefits kids, we are absolutely happy about,” Luis D. Torres, executive director of The Mix, said Monday. However, he said, not all kids in need are served by The Mix, so Torres plans to meet with leaders at other local agencies — the Boys and Girls Club, Crispus Attucks, Teen Haven and others — to determine a fair way to split the tickets among them. The slide will extend the length of three football fields down Broad Street, from King Street to Clermont Avenue, from noon to 5 p. m. Sunday, July 19. Demascola's GoFundMe campaign has exceeded $400 as of Monday afternoon. The Lancaster woman said any money she raises through the campaign will be used to buy additional tickets for city kids. Emerson Hamilton, CEO of the company that owns the Slide the City franchise in Lancaster, said charitable donations of tickets “is something that we don’t do all that often. But Jeremy Raff, assistant director at The Mix at Arbor Place, says there are other ways to get a free ride on the giant water slide in the city. Source: lancasteronline.com
