GAME ON -- FOR GOOD
Red Wings Alumni to Face Off Against Oakland Jr. Grizzlies, Troy Sting and Troy Youth Hockey Association to Benefit The Salvation Army
SOUTHFIELD, Mich. – Coaches and alumni from the Oakland Jr. Grizzlies, Troy Sting and Troy Youth Hockey Association will hit the ice against the Detroit Red Wings Alumni Association at 8 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 4, at Troy Sports Center, for a star-studded evening to benefit The Salvation Army.
All proceeds from this third annual event will go toward the 25th annual Salvation Army Bed & Club Radiothon, airing live on News/Talk 760 WJR from 6 a.m. to 10 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 24. The Radiothon is the No. 1 source of financial support for the nonprofit's Bed & Bread Program.
Red Wings committed to attend include Eddie Mio, John Ogrodnick, Brent Fedyk, Shawn Burr, John Finstrom and many others, with WJR on-air personality Warren Pierce serving as the evening's emcee.
NAI Farbman, The Farbman Group and Hennessey Capital are generously underwriting the event. Watch a preview video of this year's event!
Tickets, $12, are currently on sale. To purchase, contact Sarah Yerke at (248) 767-6151, or via email at sarah_yerke@usc.salvationarmy.org.
The Troy Sports Center is located at 1819 E. Big Beaver Rd. in Troy. Download (or view) a flyer for this event!
A ‘Skate-a-thon' fundraiser will also take place from 6-8 p.m. Friday, Feb. 3 at the Troy Sports Center. Coaches and team members of all ages are raising pledge dollars for the cause. To pledge funds, please contact Sarah Yerke at (248) 767-6151, or email sarah_yerke@usc.salvationarmy.org.
The Salvation Army Bed & Bread Club Radiothon has raised more than $25 million for the Bed & Bread Program in the last 24 years. The Bed & Bread Program serves 5,000 meals to the hungry each day. That's nearly 1.7 million meals every year to men, women and children that would otherwise go without. In addition, The Bed & Bread Program provides nearly 500 homeless individuals shelter each night. That's nearly 167,000 nights of shelter annually.
In the last quarter of 2011, The Salvation Army saw an 11 percent increase in the number of meals served off of the Bed & Bread trucks.
While other Bed & Bread Programs do exist throughout the country, The Salvation Army of Metro Detroit's Bed & Bread Program is unique in that it also serves people via mobile soup kitchens. Detroit's mobile soup kitchens are The Salvation Army's only traveling Bed & Bread units.
The Bed & Bread trucks leave from The Salvation Army's Acres of Hope campus in Detroit 365 days a year to visit many designated Bed & Bread stops throughout the day. The Bed & Bread program's mobile feeding trucks also assist clients in receiving critical social services from The Salvation Army.
To join the Bed & Bread Club by making a tax-deductible donation, please call (248) 528-0760 or donate online.
Founded by William and Catherine Booth in London, England in 1865, The Salvation Army is a faith-based, non-profit organization dedicated to serving people in need without discrimination. For more information about The Salvation Army, or to donate, please call 877-SAL-MICH, or visit us at www.salmich.org.