02/ 09/ 04 $375,000 Raised at West Hartford Live Auction!

Media Contact: Harriet J. Dobin, 860-614-0937 harrietdobin@aol.com
(Hartford, Ct. Feb 8, 2004) A stunning $378,000 was raised at the CowParade Live Gala Cattle Auction Feb. 7 at The Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts in Hartford. The Cow art auction benefits Connecticut Children’s Medical Center and more than 45 local charities. It was the most successful U.S. CowP arade Auction since 2001, surpassing the cattle auctions following the Atlanta, San Antonio and Las Vegas CowParade exhibitions.

An Internet Auction on www. cowparade.com is now in progress for six of the artsy cows, and runs through February 18. The Internet Auction is expected to significantly increase last night’s Live Auction and Silent Auction total dollars raised.

CowParade West Hartford Center “The Cows Come Home” was presented by Guida's Milk and Ice Cream, sponsored by local businesses and stampeded through the town Sept 3 - December 4, 2003. Over sixty original works of cow art, created by local artists, roamed the streets, corralling a media whirlwind and a frenzy of tourists from throughout the US and the world. Event partner was NRG Connecticut LLC.

Beneficiaries of the CowParade Live, Silent and Internet Auction include:

Arthritis Association, Boys & Girls Clubs of Hartford, Inc., Breaking Barriers Foundation, The Bridge Family Center, Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts, Camp Courant, Camp Rising Sun – American Cancer Society, Charter Oak Chapter/American Red Cross, Coldwell Banker Cares, Connecticut Children's Medical Center, Connecticut Down Syndrome Congress, Courant Community Fund, Daisy's Dream Foundation, Fidelco Guide Dog Foundation, Inc., Food Pantry of South Windsor, Foodshare, Inc., Foundation for West Hartford Public Schools, Greater Hartford Jewish Community Center, Guida’s Charitable Foundation, Hartford Art School – University of Hartford, Hartford Foundation for Public Giving, Hood Herd Home Team Advantage, Hospital for Special Care, Jewish Federation of Greater Hartford, Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, Kingswood-Oxford School, Make-A-Wish Foundation of Connecticut, National Hemophilia Foundation, National Multiple Sclerosis Society – Greater Conn. Chapter, National Leiomyosarcoma Foundation, Nutmeg Big Brothers Big Sisters, Positive Momentum, Inc – Clothes Make The Man Program, Riverfront Recapture, Inc., St. Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital, Solar Youth, Inc., The Sunshine Kids, The Town That Cares Fund, Time For Life, United Way of Greater Hartford, West Hartford Garden Club, West Hartford Seniors Job Bank, Yale New Haven Children’s Hospital and the YWCA of the Hartford Region.

CowParade, the world's most popular art exhibition, has hosted events in 18 cities since Zurich in 1998, raised more than $9 million for charities world-wide, and paid thousands of artists more than $1.5 million to paint the popular artsy cows. The global headquarters of CowParade is in West Hartford, Connecticut and the Cows Came Home in Fall 2003. For more information, contact 860-561-0000 ext 18 or visit www. cowparade.net.
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