Sports
Star-studded event features skating champions and celebrities on the ice with guests at Wollman Rink
Figure Skating in Harlem is pleased to announce the 2009 Skating With the Stars gala honoring skating legend Tai Babilionia and New York State ’s First Lady, Michelle Paige Paterson. The fifth annual benefit will be held on Monday evening, April 6, 2009, from 6pm-9pm at Wollman Rink in Central Park . It promises to be another fun and delightful evening that raises critically-needed funds for Figure Skating in Harlem ’s pioneering youth development program.Joyce and David Dinkins, Terry and Tina Lundgren and Donald and Melania Trump will serve as this year’s Honorary Chairs. The Gala co-chairs are Star Jones, Candace S. Matthews, Teresa Teague, and Tamara Tunie. Now in its fifth year, this star-studded event attracts celebrities such as Kelly Ripa, Vera Wang, Mariska Hargitay, Christopher Meloni, Richie Rich, Kimberley Locke, and Kelly Rowland, as well as prominent business leaders, philanthropists, and friends. The evening will also include a dinner buffet and auction. Whitney Houston, Mariska Hargitay & Peter Hermann, Lorraine Bracco, Christopher & Sherman Meloni, Apolo Anton Ohno, Cameron Mathison, and Martha Stewart are among the members of the 2009 Benefit Committee.
At this event, guests are offered the extraordinary opportunity to skate side by side with Tai Babilonia and a spectacular roster of Olympic and World Medalists including Dorothy Hamill, Sasha Cohen, Sarah Hughes, Viktor Petrenko, Todd Eldredge, Alissa Czisny, Kimmie Meissner, Evan Lysacek, Timothy Goebel and Tanith Belbin and Ben Agosto. Tickets start at $300 and are available by calling (212) 675-9474. Visit www.charitybuzz.com to find great auction items for bidding online from March 25th-April 21st, 2009.
Figure Skating in Harlem has served hundreds of New York City girls since 1997 with an innovative education and ice-skating program that transforms young lives and helps Harlem girls grow in confidence, leadership and academic achievement. Proceeds from this benefit event will help FSH continue to grow and become an even stronger resource for children in the community. FSH also hopes to develop a base of support that will help them secure a home rink of their own with access to skating and educational facilities year-round in Upper Manhattan .
http://www.figureskatinginharlem.org
For more information, contact: Jennifer Niederhoffer (917) 699-2939 [jennifer@impressmediapr.com]
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THEY ARE PIMPS
just another group the uses the black children of Harlem
This program started off good but overtime yield to the drawn of money. They get Millions in grants and fund raising. And does little or nothing for the girls, all of their products are donated to them (Skates, uniforms, Costumes.)
Still parents pay up to $350. In Tuition (2008) some get a small piece of financial aid. Than in DEC. you have MANDATORY FUND RAISING where if you don’t sell party tickets and raffle books you have to pay for them yourself. This for the poor little girls of Harlem. 2008-2009 there were 125 girls you do the math
They say that at there April skating with the stars party they make over a quarter of a million dollars (please check Entrepreneur.Com) they cry broke we need money but yet Jan.1, 2009 rung the bell on the stock exchange and told of how they are moving I to a new 5000 feet office on 125th street.
I AM ONE OF THE STUDENTS AND I THINK THEY DID A GREAT JOB (MISS CELIE’S BLUES)