REPEAT/Staples Office Putting Championship Transformed Into Fundraiser for Disaster Relief; Staples to Donate up to $30,000 to NW Response: Red Cross Relief Fund.News/Assignment Editors Repeating... SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 14, 2001 Staples staples U-shaped stainless steel or vitallium units with sharp points used for surgical fixation. epiphyseal staples used to staple epiphysis to metaphysis; have metal bracing at the corners. will transform the Staples Office Putting Championship into a disaster relief fundraiser to support NW Response: Red Cross Relief Fund. The fundraiser gives Seattle-area small businesses an opportunity to join together and collectively lend a hand. The event will be held on Thursday, September 20, 2001 at the Washington State Convention & Trade Center, Room 4C, from 6:00 - 9:00 p.m. "Out of respect to the victims, families and friends, we strongly believe that transforming the Staples Office Putting Championship into a NW Response: Red Cross Relief Fund fundraiser is the right thing to do and gives Seattle small businesses additional means to contribute," said Tim Mooney, vice president, Staples Inc. Instead of rescheduling this week's regional tournaments or postponing next week's citywide finals, Staples is encouraging all of the regional tournament participants to putt to support NW Response: Red Cross Relief Fund. With more than 100 regional tournament participants expected to attend, small businesses will tackle a challenging putting obstacle course obstacle course n. 1. A training course filled with obstacles, such as ditches and walls, that must be negotiated speedily by troops undergoing training or participants in an obstacle race. 2. for cash contributions, made in their company's name, to benefit the NW Response: Red Cross Relief Fund. Contributions will be made in the following amounts: 1st Place - $10,000 2nd Place - $ 5,000 3rd Place - $ 2,500 4th Place - $ 2,500 Staples also is encouraging the regional participants to bring friends and family to the competition so that they can participate in other fundraising activities. In an effort to increase contributions, Staples will donate $1.00 for each attempt at sinking a 30-foot putt and $25 for the sinking of any 30-foot putt, for total contributions up to $10,000. In addition, Staples will have NW Response: Red Cross Relief Fund donation receptacles available at the event should attendees wish to make their own donations. Originally, the STAPLES(R) Office Putting Championship(SM) began on June 23 and offered Seattle businesses the opportunity to turn their offices, reception areas and conference rooms into sand traps, doglegs and water hazards in a bid to win the title of Seattle's best putter, as well as a trip for four to Hawaii that includes three rounds of golf and the chance to win $10,000 in cash for a local charity. In an effort to offer participating Seattle residents a respite RESPITE, contracts, civil law. An act by which a debtor who is unable to satisfy his debts at the moment, transacts (i. e. compromises) with his creditors, and obtains from them time or delay for the payment of the sums which he owes to them. Louis. Code, 3051. from our nation's on-going crisis, Staples is still offering the 1st place winner the Grand Prize. Among the many other disaster relief efforts it is involved with, Staples is making an initial corporate contribution of $100,000 to the NYCPPI NYCPPI New York City Public / Private Initiatives (New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. Public/Private Initiatives, Inc.). This is a nonprofit A corporation or an association that conducts business for the benefit of the general public without shareholders and without a profit motive. Nonprofits are also called not-for-profit corporations. Nonprofit corporations are created according to state law. 501(c)(3) organization that is accepting donations to aid the families of police, fire, EMS and other city employees involved in rescue efforts. Staples is an $11 billion retailer of office supplies Office supplies is the generic term that refers to all supplies regularly used in offices by businesses and other organizations, from private citizens to governments, who works with the collection, refinement, and output of information (colloquially referred to as "paper work"). , furniture, technology and business services to consumers and businesses from home-based businesses to Fortune 500 companies in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. , Canada, the United Kingdom, Germany, the Netherlands and Portugal. Headquartered outside Boston, Staples invented the office superstore su·per·store n. A very large retail store that stocks highly diversified merchandise, such as groceries, toys, and camera equipment, or a wide variety of mechandise in a specific product line, such as computers or sporting goods. concept and today is the largest operator of office superstores This is a list of superstores by country. Multi-national
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