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December 27, 2006

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SAVE THE DATE!
LEGENDARY COUNTRY SINGER MEL TILLIS
HEADLINES 15th ANNUAL “FIESTA” FUNDRAISER

Flint Hills Resources and Driscoll Children’s Hospital present …

15th Annual Fiesta de los Ninos,
Annual fundraiser benefiting Driscoll Children’s Hospital
Friday, February 2, 2007
American Bank Center ? 1901 N. Shoreline Blvd. ? Corpus Christi, Texas

6:30 p.m. – Reception, Silent & Bidboard Auctions
7:00 p.m. - Texas Barbecue Dinner
8:30 p.m. - Live Auction
9:30 p.m. – Dancing to the Music of Mel Tillis

Tables of 10 (staring at $1,800) - on sale now!
Call (361) 854- 4165

(Corpus Christi, TX) The 14-year-long tradition of good music, good food, and good friends joining together to help the children of South Texas continues! As one of the oldest and most successful charity event in South Texas, presented by Flint Hills Resources, the 15th Annual Fiesta de los Ninos will take place on Friday, February 2, 2007 at the American Bank Center in Corpus Christi, Texas. The evening’s festivities will include Texas barbecue, silent, blackboard and live auction, as well as entertainment by legendary country singer Mel Tillis. Proceeds from the evening’s event are earmarked for Driscoll Children’s Hospital’s new CT Scanner and Catheterization Lab.

“Each year, Fiesta de los Ninos generates thousands of dollars to one of the patient programs at Driscoll Children’s Hospital,” said Rick Merrill, President and Chief Executive Officer, Driscoll Children’s Hospital. “This year a new CT Scanner and Catheterization Lab will benefit thanks in part again to Flint Hill’s Resources as the event’s first and strongest sponsor.”

“Flint Hills Resources remains committed to this important event that has raised more than $3 million for Driscoll Children’s hospital,” said Dave Allen, Vice President of Manufacturing, Flint Hills Resources and Corpus Christi Complex Manager. “We salute outstanding services the hospital provides – including many that are not available anywhere else in this region.”

Mel Tillis Performs! (www.meltillis.com)
Country music legend, Mel Tillis, started performing in the early ‘50’s with a group called The Westerners while serving as a baker in the United States Air Force, stationed in Okinawa. In 1956, Webb Pierce recorded a song written by Mel entitled “I’m Tired”, and it launched Mel’s musical career.

In 1976, Mel Tillis was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters International Hall of Fame, and that same year, he was named Country Music Association’s (CMA) Entertainer of the Year. Also, for six years in the 70’s, Mel Tillis won Comedian of the Year. On September 21, 1999, Broadcast Music, Inc. (BMI) named Mel Tillis the Songwriter of the Decade for two decades. Most recently, Mel was the recipient of the Golden Voice Entertainer Award for 2001. He also won the 2001 Golden R.O.P.E. Songwriter Award.

Mel has written well over 1,000 songs, and approximately 600 have been recorded by major artists. Two of his most well known hits: “Ruby, Don’t Take your Love to Town ” and “Coca Cola Cowboy.”

CT Scanner and Catheterization Lab - Funds raised from this year’s Fiesta de los Ninos will benefit Driscoll’s new CT Scanner and Children’s Catheterization (Cath Lab) Suite. Driscoll Currently has the only Pediatric Heart Cath Lab in South Texas exclusively serving children. The new Children’s Cath Suite will offer the latest technology that will enable more children with life threatening heart defects to delay or completely avoid more invasive surgeries.
The new CT Scanner will revolutionize the quality of care that Driscoll Children’s Hospital can give the children of South Texas by providing the most accurate, reliable, safe and cost effective non-invasive diagnostic imaging procedures. It will allow more images of more children that require fewer retakes, expose the children to less radiation, and produce more detailed, accurate diagnostic images that are 64 times the number of images per exposure than is currently available.

Giving Back to the Community
Fiesta de los Ninos is a major annual fundraiser for Driscoll Children’s Hospital and has become one of the most successful charity events in the state of Texas. Led by long-time sponsor Flint Hills Resources, the event has raised more than $3 million dollars in 14years for various patient programs.

Tickets - On Sale Now!
Tickets start at tables of 10 for $1,800, $2,500, $5,000, $10,000 and $25,000. Call (361) 854-4165 for ticket information.

About Flint Hills Resources
In Corpus Christi, Flint Hills Resources is a leading producer of fuels and other petrochemical products. The company’s almost 900 employees in Corpus Christi have worked more than 10 million hours without a lost time or day away from work injury. Flint Hills Resources is a wholly owned subsidiary of Koch Industries, Inc., and also operates refineries North Pole, Alaska, and Pine Bend, Minn., as well as a chemical intermediates plant near Joliet, Ill. For more information, see www.fhr.com.

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About Driscoll Children’s Hospital
“Improve the health of adults and you give them back their health …
Improve the health of children and you give them their life.”

Since opening its doors in 1953, Driscoll Children’s Hospital has been offering hope and healing to the children of South Texas for half a century. The facility is a 189-bed pediatric tertiary care center with pediatric board-certified specialists representing 19 medical and nine surgical specialties. Each year, more than 6,000 children are admitted for inpatient care, 5,000 for day surgery, and 50,000 for outpatient primary and specialty care, as well as 40,000 for emergency care, as the first South Texas hospital with emergency services exclusively for children. Additionally, Driscoll maintains a state-of-the-art ground/air transport team, 20-bed pediatric intensive care unit, 40-bed neonatal intensive care unit, and specialized medical outreach.

www.driscollchildrens.org

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