Caleb Cares 4 Kids hosts their 11th Annual Spaghetti Dinner

ZANESVILLE, Ohio – The non-profit organization, Caleb Cares 4 Kids, is holding their annual spaghetti dinner fundraiser for it’s eleventh year to help children in hospitals.

This Saturday from 4 to 6:30 p.m., the spaghetti dinner and silent auction helps the non-profit to provide gifts and financial support to pediatric hospital patients and their families at Nationwide Children’s Hospital and Genesis hospitals.

“When I was 2 years old, I spent about a week in Nationwide Children’s Hospital with Kawasaki disease which is an autoimmune disorder and I was treated there after going through pretty much every department,” said Caleb Silvia, founder of Caleb Cares 4 Kids. “But the only thing that I really remember from that was the toy cart and so that was kind of what inspired the first toy drive which was, like I said in 2012, so when I was 8 years old. And then that kind of grew into everything else that we do today.”

A suggested $10 donation or donation of an unwrapped toy is all it takes to attend the dinner at Coburn United Methodist Church. The silent auction features over 100 items donated by local businesses.

“So we’ve got some signed OSU memorabilia, jewelry, lots of gift cards to places all around Zanesville, I think even some places in Cambridge, Newark. Quite a few sponsors though, that were involved with that. So the meat for our sauce was provided by Phillips, the spaghetti itself donated by Creno’s, and our salad is from Longhorn and then this year our bread is from Jimmy John’s. So a lot of different parts of the community kind of coming together for it,” Silvia said.

More information can be found on Caleb Cares 4 Kid’s website and on the non-profit’s Facebook Page.