ADVISORY/Hallmark Channel Joins Hollygrove Children & Family Services for a National Adoption Month Celebration.

News/Assignment Editors

ADVISORY...for Saturday (Nov. 16)

--(BUSINESS WIRE)

Art Fair 2002: Unmasking the Wonders of Children Event to Raise

Awareness for Adoption and Foster Care Efforts in Los Angeles 

WHAT: In celebration of National Adoption Month, Hallmark Channel has
      partnered with Freddie Mac Foundation and Hollygrove Children &
      Family Services to host Art Fair 2002: Unmasking the Wonders of
      Children. The event, also sponsored by Creative Artist Agency
      (CAA) Foundation, Adelphia, Charter Communications, and Time
      Warner Cable, hopes to raise awareness for adoption and foster
      care efforts in Los Angeles, while dispelling myths surrounding
      both.

      Invited guests and their families will join the children of
      Hollygrove for a fun-filled day of arts and crafts activities.
      The event will feature activity stations where guests can
      decorate masks and t-shirts, have their face painted, create
      personalized paper dolls and picture frames, and listen to
      stories in a special reading room. Food and beverages will be
      served, and a deejay will be on-hand to provide live
      entertainment for all to enjoy.

WHEN: Saturday, November 16, 2002
      1:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.

WHERE: Hollygrove Children & Family Services
       815 North El Centro Avenue
       Los Angeles, CA
       -- Parking located at Paramount Pictures parking structure on
          N. Gower St.

WHO: David Kenin, Executive V.P. of Programming, Hallmark Channel
     Judy Nelson, Chief Executive Officer, Hollygrove Children & Family
     Services
     Tom Randall, Director of Customer Service, Freddie Mac
     Deane Leavenworth, V.P. of Corporate Communications, Time Warner
     Cable

WHY: The event provides an opportunity to raise awareness in the local
     community about adoption and foster parenting, and to showcase
     one of Hollygrove's greatest assets, its kids, and the
     Therapeutic Arts program, which helps the children in their care
     to heal and develop emotionally, intellectually, spiritually and
     physically. Founded as the Los Angeles Orphans Home Society,
     Hollygrove is the oldest nonsectarian home for children in
     Southern California and is child-centered and family-focused.
     Since its inception in 1880, Hollygrove has cared for more than
     15,000 children.

     Hallmark Channel, a 24-hour television network that provides high
     quality entertainment programming that is family-friendly to a
     national audience of more than 48 million subscribers, was
     recently honored by the Congressional Directors of the
     Congressional Coalition on Adoption Institute (CCAI) with a
     "National Angel" award for its efforts to raise awareness about
     adoption and foster care through "Adoption," an original reality
     series portraying real-life experiences of people involved in the
     adoption process, and the network's national and local outreach
     initiatives. Additionally, the Gladney Center for Adoption
     recently presented its 2002 Friend of Adoption Award to Hallmark
     Channel for "Adoption."