Band to play benefit for heart institute

Special to The Hays Daily News

On May 23, Hays band Plan B will have a benefit concert for Hays Medical Center's DeBakey Heart Institute at Fox Pavilion, 1202 Main.

Tickets are $15 a person. Doors will open at 8 p.m., and the event will be catered by Fox Pavilion. Plan B will take the stage at 9 p.m. and play until midnight.

Many businesses around town have donated items to be raffled for $5 a ticket, and there is no limit on the number of tickets that can be purchased. Some of the bigger items are a Trager Wood Pellet Grill from Crawford Supply, an electric guitar from Midwest Music, a Foosball Table from Sears and a room at the Holiday Inn. Tickets will be dropped into a bowl, and gifts will be given out all evening long.

Plan B's lead guitar player, Kevin Anderson, had a heart transplant last year at age 38. Anderson began the procedure at DeBakey, then went to Texas for the actual transplant.

Anderson, originally of Hays, lives in Great Bend and travels 240 miles a week to practice in Hays with the rest of the guys in Plan B -- Pat Toepfer, Jeff Durall, Kris Fair and Ronnie Hendershott, all of Hays.

The band members said they picked the DeBakey Heart Institute because they believe it's a tremendous asset not only for Hays, but western Kansas.

For more information on the band, go to www.planbhaysks.com.