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Homeless in Yakima County To Get The Help They Need – You Can Help
You can help the homeless in Yakima County! Each year Project Homeless Connect provides services like a hot meal, free haircuts, and medical and vision screenings to Yakima County Homeless. Here's how you can help.
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My Seven-Year-Old Donated Her Hair to ‘Locks of Love’
January 3, 2013 I have to say I'm very proud of my daughter. Her whole life, she has been blessed (and burdened) with naturally blonde, curly hair. When she heard about Locks of Love a year ago, she decided that's what she wanted to do. Instead of getting her hair cut shorter, she'd wait it out a year to donate her hair to someone in need.
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The Second Annual ALMS Turkey Drive – How You Can Help
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Celebrity Bartending For Little Boys Hit By Vehicle
October 16, 2012 A tragic accident has put two little boys in the hospital.
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YWCA Receives $480,000 Loan Through An Unusual Local Partnership
It was a great day at the YWCA in Yakima. They were presented with a check worth $480,000 from the Federal Home Loan Bank of Seattle in partnership the two local banks, Yakima Federal Savings and Loan and Central Valley Bank. The event drew some very influential people all united behind the cause of rescuing women from abusive relationships.
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Man Buys K-Mart Store and Gives Everything Inside Away
May 17, 2012 There's philanthropy and then there's THIS guy.
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Eddie Van Halen Donates 75 Guitars to School Music Programs
Being in the school band just got a whole lot cooler for some of the kids in the Los Angeles area: Eddie Van Halen has teamed up with the Mr. Holland’s Opus Foundation to donate 75 guitars from his personal collection to schools that don’t have enough funding to pay for instruments. For Van Halen, it was a simple case of giving back — as he put it simply, “Music education and families are dealing with the economic times, and I wanted to help them.”
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Eddie Van Halen Auctions Off Guitar For Charity
December 28, 2011 Eddie Van Halen has always been charitable! He is auctioning off on of his favorites to help the charity, Drop In The Bucket, that helps makes wells and sanitation systems for rural schools in Africa. Who ever gets the winning bid gets the 1999 Wolfgang Translucent Cherry Sunburst 5A Flame signed by Eddie.
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Kid Rock Donates to Northwest Autism Center And Second Harvest Food Bank
On the final stop of the 12 city “CARE” tour Kid Rock announced the local recipients of a portion of the more than $400,000 dollars to be donated. Kid Rock has assembled a team of Detroit titans to show support for other cities in need, and to show that Detroit, while experiencing its own difficulties still has the power to unite to help others around the country. Kid Rock, in association with this powerhouse group of local Detroit business people, will donate money to local charities, causes and individuals via the Kid Rock Foundation, all along every stop of his underplay club tour. Radio station partners in each tour market will help determine those individuals and organizations in need.
Spokane’s recipients are: Northwest Autism Center and Second Harvest Food Bank.
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Pearl Jam Donate $50,000 To ‘Blessings in a Backpack’ Program
Pearl Jam celebrated a special anniversary in September when they rolled into Alpine Valley’s Music Theater in Wisconsin for their PJ20 festival, and now they have something special planned for needy children in the area. The band has pledged to donate $50,000 to Blessings in a Backpack, an organization that provides weekend meals for students who qualify for the federal Free and Reduced Lunch Program.
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Big Give Day Is Here
Today, November 15th, is BIG GIVE DAY. It’s one day out of the year the entire community joins forces to support vital healthcare programs for children’s health care, hospice patients, cancer care, mammography services and more, specifically benefiting programs right here in our community and you can help!