Bay Area Companies Spearhead the Remedy Celebrity Winterfest to Be Held in Lake Tahoe on March 11th and 12th to Benefit Special Olympics.PLEASANT HILL, Calif. -- On March 11th and 12th some of the United States' most diverse celebrities and businesses will compete on Lake Tahoe's ski slopes at The Remedy Celebrity Winterfest, to raise money for 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 is sponsored by Remedy and will be 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 two-day event will include a Corporate Ski Challenge, an Awards Dinner at Harrah's Lake Tahoe Resort and a silent and live Auction. The Remedy Celebrity Winterfest brings together Bay Area companies whose corporate teams have each donated $10,000 in order to participate in the weekend event. The 2005 Remedy Celebrity Winterfest includes participants from companies such as Remedy, BMC Software BMC Software, Inc. NYSE: BMC, is an American enterprise management software provider, focusing on IT infrastructure applications. BMC was founded in 1980 and is headquartered in Houston, Texas. , 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 include Tim Abell, Mike Buie, Carlos Bernard, Scott Grimes, Kevin Durand, Andy Lauer, Zac Levi, Justin Melvey, Amy Pietz, Patrick Wayne, Chad Coleman, Juliette Goodrich, Dr. Hayworth, Joel David Moore, Mark Moses, Gregory Smith, Judy Tenuta, Misti Traya, Kevin Weisman and John Vogel. The Corporate Ski Challenge (to be held on Saturday, March 12th) will pair an eight member corporate team with a Special Olympics Alpine Ski Athlete or snowboarder and a celebrity skier (making a total of 10 participants on each team) and will compete against one another for a day that promises to be extraordinary. Results from the event will be posted at the Award Dinner with categories that include Best Dressed Team, Fastest Skier and of course the number one, two and three winning teams from the competition. All proceeds from the weekend will be donated to Special Olympics Northern California and will support the Winter Games at Kirkwood Ski Resort. 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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