Runde’s Community Service Truck Helps Area Residential Care

Laura Rannals from ARC

Laura Rannals from Area Residential Care dropped in the other day to drop off the Runde’s Community Support Truck. Area Residential Care is a non-profit agency that serves people with mental or other developmental disabilities. They have grown to serve about 300 differently-abled adults and about 300 staff members in Dubuque (the headquarters), Dyersville, and Manchester. They will soon be moving into the old Econofoods building off of JFK Rd. in DBQ.

The Community Support Truck was used to help move items and goods to and from A.Y. McDonald Park in Dubuque where they held the 2010 Corporate & Community Games. Laura explains that the Corporate Community game event is the annual fundraiser for A.R.C. The event takes place on the second Wednesday of every June. Teams of eight to ten people sign up to play “silly games” to support Area Residential Care … silly games with noble intentions.  There were ten games in all this year and you may be asking, “what exactly is a silly game?” How about shooting rubber chickens through a water balloon launcher to score points? As long as you are over 18, you can join a team. This year they had 40 teams and the winning team went home with some goodies.

Money from the event goes towards different needs within Area Residential Care.  Laura said that the support of all of the participants, sponsors, and spectators really helped the cause. This is the third year that Residential Care has borrowed the Runde’s Community Support Truck for help with the event. Laura stresses, “The truck was a HUGE help. It would not have gone as smoothly without it. It gives you that peace of mind that everything is loaded and ready to go for the event when you have other things to worry about.”

To learn more about Area Residentail Care visit the ARC website and help support these great non-profit agency’s that do everything in their power to help the community.