$400,000.00 Was Raised at the Remedy Celebrity Winterfest Held in Lake Tahoe on March 11th and 12th to Benefit Special Olympics.SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Nev. -- On March 11th and 12th some of the United States' most diverse celebrities and businesses competed on Lake Tahoe's ski slopes for The Remedy Celebrity Winterfest, raising $400,000.00 to benefit Special Olympics Special Olympics International sports program for people with intellectual disability. It provides year-round training and athletic competition in a variety of Olympic-type summer and winter sports for participants. Northern California Northern California, sometimes referred to as NorCal, is the northern portion of the U.S. state of California. The region contains the San Francisco Bay Area, the state capital, Sacramento; as well as the substantial natural beauty of the redwood forests, the northern . The event was sponsored by Remedy and was held at Harrah's Lake Tahoe Harrah's Lake Tahoe, is a resort casino in South Lake Tahoe at Stateline, Nevada. It is branded with the name of its former owner William Fisk Harrah and owned by Harrah's Entertainment. and Heavenly Ski Resort Heavenly Mountain Resort is a ski resort located on the California-Nevada border in South Lake Tahoe ( 38°56'7.40"N, 119°56'24.29"W). It has 95 runs and 30 lifts that are spread between California and Nevada and four base facilities. The resort was purchased by Vail Resorts, Inc. . The 2005 Remedy Celebrity Winterfest included participants from companies such as Remedy, BMC Software, Cingular Wireless, Blazent, Enterprise Management Solutions, Ericsson, Kaiser, MedeFinance, North American North American named after North America. North American blastomycosis see North American blastomycosis. North American cattle tick see boophilusannulatus. Title, and Tesoro. Participating celebrities included Tim Abell, Mike Buie, Carlos Bernard, Scott Grimes, Kevin Durand, Andy Lauer, Zachary Levi, Justin Melvey, Amy Pietz, Chad Coleman, Juliette Goodrich, Dr. Randall Haworth, Joel David Moore, Mark Moses, Barry Sims, Judy Tenuta, Misti Traya, Patrick Wayne and John Vogel. All proceeds from the weekend have been donated to Special Olympics Northern California and will support the Winter Games at Kirkwood Ski Resort, March 14th-17th. The concept of the Winter Games is designed as the culmination of the Special Olympics Northern California Winter Sports Season. Winter Games is an annual multi-sport, multi-day, Olympic-style event in a world-class setting. The 2005 Winter Games will involve approximately 250 athletes and coaches from throughout Northern California. Over 80 local volunteers will work to make this event a success. The mission of Special Olympics is to provide year-round sports training and competition in a variety of Olympic style sports for individuals eight-years-of-age and older with developmental disabilities developmental disabilities (DD), n.pl the pathologic conditions that have their origin in the embryology and growth and development of an individual. DDs usually appear clinically before 18 years of age. , giving them continuing opportunities to develop physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in the sharing of gifts, skill and friendship with their families, other athletes, and the community. In Northern California 14,000 athletes currently compete in 19 Olympic-style sports. |
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