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CHARITY SPOTLIGHT<br />
including Temple Satellite Camp, the after-school<br />
program at Widener Memorial School High<br />
School, and the after-school program at Overbrook<br />
School for the Blind, celebrated the holidays at a<br />
party hosted for them by Sam Staten Jr., business<br />
manager and Local Laborers 332. Each child<br />
received a new coat and got to select a toy of his or<br />
her choice. Forty children received new bicycles.<br />
VARIETY ❤ STELLA<br />
Over 500 guests<br />
attended the Annual<br />
Variety Heart<br />
of Show Business<br />
Award Luncheon at<br />
the Skirball Cultural<br />
Center on December<br />
12, 2019. Variety<br />
– The Children’s<br />
Charity of Southern<br />
California honored<br />
Stella Burks, SVP<br />
distribution services,<br />
Warner Bros.<br />
Pictures Domestic.<br />
Here, she<br />
receives her Heart<br />
of Show Business<br />
Award from Jeffrey<br />
Goldstein, president,<br />
domestic<br />
distribution, Warner<br />
Bros. Pictures.<br />
Entertainment industry<br />
colleagues,<br />
family, and friends<br />
were all there to<br />
celebrate Stella’s<br />
“stellar” career and<br />
wish her well in her<br />
retirement.<br />
Did you know that a child’s brain is<br />
most flexible and adaptable to learning<br />
during the earliest years of life? By the<br />
age of 5, a child’s brain is 90 percent<br />
developed. Reading, singing, and<br />
dancing help to improve children’s<br />
brainpower, develop social skills, build<br />
confidence, and inspire creativity.<br />
Two Variety Musical Picnics were<br />
held this year in New South Wales<br />
and Australian Capital Territory<br />
for kids of all ages and abilities. The<br />
free, inclusive, and interactive events<br />
featured musical performances by<br />
Rachael Coopes and Teo Gebert.<br />
The events provided opportunities<br />
for children to increase social and<br />
community connections and promote<br />
a more positive attachment between<br />
caregiver and child.<br />
100 children with disabilities who attend<br />
programs through Variety of the Delaware Valley,<br />
The Variety Santa Fun Run returned to<br />
Newcastle Foreshore, with hundreds of runners,<br />
walkers, and rollers donning their Santa suits and<br />
braving the heat to raise funds for kids in need. It<br />
was a welcome return for this much-loved event,<br />
bringing festive cheer to the Newcastle, New<br />
South Wales, community.<br />
26 / FEBRUARY <strong>2020</strong>
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