ADVISORY/Seattle Mariners Autograph Event; Benefit for Esperanza.Sports Editors/Baseball Writers & Columnists ADVISORY...For Saturday (June 29) Where: Bellevue Square Center Court When: June 29, 2002 Tickets: Day of Ticket Sales Start at 9:00 am Cost: $45 Per Session Time: 10:00 am - 1:30 pm SESSION 1 SESSION 2 (10:00 - 11:30) (12:00 - 1:30) Freddy Garcia Mike Cameron Ryan Franklin Joel Pineiro Carlos Guillen Mark McLemore Raphael Soriano John Halama (attending Mariner players subject to change) For more Information: Phone: 425/462-2500 or visit www.esperanza.org Esperanza International 777 108th Ave. N.E., Suite 2230, Bellevue, WA 98004 Mariner Mariner Any of a series of unmanned U.S. space probes sent near Venus, Mars, and Mercury. Mariners 2 (1962) and 5 (1967) passed Venus within 22,000 mi (35,000 km) and 2,500 mi (4,000 km), respectively, and made measurements of temperature and atmospheric density. Broadcaster, and former Mariner Catcher Dave Valle David Valle (IPA: /'væli/, pronounced "valley") (born October 30, 1960 in Bayside, New York, USA) was a Major League Baseball player from 1984 to 1996. and his wife Vicky founded Esperanza with the intent of improving life for children living in poverty in Latin America Latin America, the Spanish-speaking, Portuguese-speaking, and French-speaking countries (except Canada) of North America, South America, Central America, and the West Indies. . Since 1995 Esperanza has lent over $3,056,000 in nearly 12,056 loans to poor women living in the Dominican Republic Dominican Republic (dəmĭn`ĭkən), republic (2005 est. pop. 8,950,000), 18,700 sq mi (48,442 sq km), West Indies, on the eastern two thirds of the island of Hispaniola. The capital and largest city is Santo Domingo. , creating/sustaining over 11,000 jobs. Esperanza's Family Assistance and Economic Development program enables women to care for their children by providing such things as adequate food, school supplies, health care and clean drinking water drinking water supply of water available to animals for drinking supplied via nipples, in troughs, dams, ponds and larger natural water sources; an insufficient supply leads to dehydration; it can be the source of infection, e.g. leptospirosis, salmonellosis, or of poisoning, e.g. . Esperanza also provides desperately needed training programs through a vocational training school; computer education programs; medical care and health education for women and their children. Mariner players donate their time for this event and Bellevue Square Bellevue Square is a shopping mall in Bellevue, eight miles east of Seattle. The mall has 180 retail stores, including anchors JCPenney, Macy's, and Nordstrom, specialty stores like Pottery Barn, the Apple Store, Armani and Williams-Sonoma, and restaurants like P.F. donates the facility. All proceeds go directly to Esperanza's program in the Dominican Republic. |
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