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In the news

It doesn't happen often but I actually know some people who have been in the news. Not front page news, but news nonetheless.
Yesterday my mother informed me that my college friend, Victor Urecki was in the Baltimore Sun. Well I did a little searching and discovered that he was in a lot of newspapers courtesy of Reuters. Victor - Rabbi Urecki - got his youth group to hold an "Apprentice" type competition to raise funds for tsunami relief. That wouldn't necessarily make it into the news. This is from the account in his hometown Charleston Daily Mail and why the endeavor was newsworthy:

The teens came up with the initial plans for raising the money. They sold raffle tickets at $5 a pop for chances on an iPod. They held a silent auction in conjunction with an invitational basketball tournament at the synagogue on Jan. 30. The teams did all the legwork of collecting items for the auction, sponsors for the tournament and donations for the cause.

The total of nearly $23,000 far surpasses their initial goal of $5,000.

As the amount collected for tsunami relief continued to climb, Urecki sent a letter to Donald Trump announcing the endeavor and its success.

Trump wrote back.

On another light note, our friend and neighbor Andrea F. was acknowledged (once and twice) in Chayyei Sarah.

In a much more serious occurrence, Avi Shapiro, the brother in law of Nancy Morgenstern, quoted in Ha'aretz is the brother of a friend of mine. (via Israelly Cool!)

I'm still waiting for the Baltimore Sun to publish its story about the Aliyah of Willow Tree's new neighbor. It was supposed to have appeared in January. (He's in here someplace.)

Posted by SoccerDad at February 23, 2005 06:00 AM | TrackBack