2012 Event Sponsors

Presenting Sponsor

Kimberly-Clark

Triple Crown

North Point Community Church

Roswell Presbyterian Church

Rotary Club of Roswell

University of Phoenix

The Derby

Renasant Bank

The Preakness

Alston + Bird

Alvaro Galvis & Sandra Cornejo/Merrill Lynch

Best Buy

Fulton County Commissioners John Eaves, Liz Hausmann & Tom Lowe

Georgia Power

Robert Hagan Family Trust

The Clorox Company

The Debley Foundation

The Refinishing Touch, Mario Insenga

Valentines Medical Supply

Van Epps & Associates

The Belmont

Bob & Marge West

Brooks, McGinnis & Company, LLC, CPAs

David Bakelman

Elaine and Allan DeNiro

Fidelity Bank

George & Barbara Lovatt

Immigration Law Offices of Joseph H. Rosen

Laura Hamling / Harry Norman Realtors

North Fulton Hospital

Reverend Cy and Ann Mallard

Richard & Susan Matherly

Richard Dreger, Atorney at Law

Sally Hansell

William and Cheryl Abbott

The Run For The Roses

Join Us

The 2012 Down Home Derby

Put on your jeans and boots and party!

In Your Dreams Farm

17875 Birmingham Highway
Alpharetta, GA 30004-2441

Saturday, May 5th
Doors open: 5:00 pm
Run for the Roses Post time: 6:24 pm

Click here to see photos from the 2012 event!

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The 2012 Down Home Derby

2012 was another great event, with live music, fabulous food and drink, live and silent auctions. Hats are a tradition at the Kentucky Derby and this year we held our first Blue Ribbon Hat Parade. Mark your calendars for next year’s event, always the first Saturday in May.

Sponsorships	Blue Ribbon Hat Parade
The Down Home Derby offers a range of wonderful sponsorships for those wishing to support our families. Benefits range from tickets to the event to banner signage to entrance signage and classroom name plates and can be had for as little as $500. To learn more about sponsorship opportunities, contact David Bakelman at 404.723.8133 or sponsors@cdakids.org. More information is also available in this brochure. You may purchase sponsorships here.	The Blue Ribbon Hat Parade will award prizes in three categories: Creative: The contestant who has made or embellished a hat most creatively Equestrian: Best cowboy hat, riding hat, etc. Best in Show: Best overall hat, whether purchased or crafted. The Parade will be open to men and women. The entrance fee is $20, proceeds to go towards a new classroom computer for a CDA classroom. For more information, contact Beth Ferguson at 678.525.8755 or hats@cdakids.org. To register, click here. Nicholas Kneil (http://www.nicholaskniel.com/) has agreed to donate 20% of proceeds from purchases from his shop if attendees print out our Down Home Derby coupon and bring it in. This coupon can be used towards purchasing adornments for the hat you create or it can be used towards the purchase of a hat created by Nicholas.

Sponsorships

Blue Ribbon Hat Parade

The Down Home Derby offers a range of wonderful sponsorships for those wishing to support our families. Benefits range from tickets to the event to banner signage to entrance signage and classroom name plates and can be had for as little as $500. To learn more about sponsorship opportunities, contact David Bakelman at 404.723.8133 or sponsors@cdakids.org. More information is also available in this brochure. You may purchase sponsorships here.

The Blue Ribbon Hat Parade will award prizes in three categories:

Creative: The contestant who has made or embellished a hat most creatively
Equestrian: Best cowboy hat, riding hat, etc.
Best in Show: Best overall hat, whether purchased or crafted.

The Parade will be open to men and women. The entrance fee is $20, proceeds to go towards a new classroom computer for a CDA classroom. For more information, contact Beth Ferguson at 678.525.8755 or hats@cdakids.org. To register, click here.

Nicholas Kneil (http://www.nicholaskniel.com/) has agreed to donate 20% of proceeds from purchases from his shop if attendees print out our Down Home Derby coupon and bring it in. This coupon can be used towards purchasing adornments for the hat you create or it can be used towards the purchase of a hat created by Nicholas.