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Charitable walk
commemorates anniversary
By Tom Carey
On-line Forty-Niner
Cal State Long
Beach students have been talking the talk, but now they are
actually walking the walk to honor the victims of Sept.11.
The CSULB President's
Ambassadors are sponsoring the 49er Walk for America fundraiser
Thursday to commemorate the one-month anniversary of the attacks
on New York City and Washington, D.C.
The ambassadors
are a select group of juniors and seniors picked to exemplify
the school and serve as liaisons between the university and
the community.
They are asking
students to contribute a minimum five-dollar donation that
will benefit the New York Firefighters 9-11 Relief Fund.
"We want to show
people that students here care," said senior Valerie Ioriatti,
a business administration major and co-coordinator of the
event.
With a donation,
students will receive a pin to wear, a raffle ticket and a
free lunch. Raffles for CSULB sweatshirts and other prizes
will take place every 30 minutes.
The walk starts
at 1 p.m. at the College of Business Administration building
and ends at The Nugget, where participating students will
be treated to a free barbecue.
According to Ioriatti,
the walk will take only 15 minutes and participation is voluntary.
"There will be
a designated path that students and ambassadors will follow
and there will be people cheerleading you on as you walk by,"
said Richie Cruz, assistant coordinator for the President's
Ambassadors.
Major television
stations are scheduled to cover the event in an effort to
show that CSULB is doing its part to help in relief efforts.
By participating,
students will have a chance to show their support and be recognized.
"Someone is going
to be there to video and sell a short one to two minute clip
to the news stations," Ioriatti said.
The President's
Ambassadors are hoping to have a big turnout despite such
short notice of the event.
"We have sent out
fliers to every department and to the mayor of Long Beach,"
Cruz said. "We've made 2,500 pins to pass out to the participants
and we've had a good response from everyone we've contacted."
For more information
about the walk, contact the President's Ambassadors at (562)
985-4121.
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