The Lee County Soup Kitchen, Meals on Wheels, Faith in Action and Hand & Hearts Montessori Preschool - Press releases and special events
Proceeds from event will go towards nonprofit’s weekend backpack program for schoolchildren
January 20, 2010 (FORT MYERS, FL) – Athletic clothing line BADL (Battle) announces this year’s 2nd Annual Ball All Day Long 3-Point Shootout will be held on Saturday, February 27, 2010. The event will begin at 9 a.m. at St. Michael Lutheran School located at 3595 Broadway in Fort Myers.
The Ball All Day Long event aims to bring together the best male and female three point shooters from Lee, Collier, Dade, Hillsborough and Broward counties to have a good time in a positive environment.
The shootout is a two on two double elimination tournament. Teams of two will battle it out to see who can make it around the three-point arc and back the quickest.
The cost is $50 per two-person team. Each team that registers will receive a free tournament t-shirt, a BADL band and a chance to win the $1,000 grand prize. The shootout is open to all ages and skill levels.
All players must register at www.ballalldaylong.com.
According to event organizer and local City of Fort Myers Firefighter, Bilal, 25 percent of the proceeds will go towards Community Cooperative Ministries, Inc.’s (CCMI) weekend backpack program for local schoolchildren. CCMI is the umbrella agency for the Soup Kitchen and Food Pantry, Meals on Wheels, Senior Transportation, the Montessori Preschool of Dunbar and Family and Homeless Services. Last year CCMI began overseeing a number of backpack programs for local schoolchildren who would otherwise receive little to no food on weekends.
The Soup Kitchen serves a noontime meal six days a week to men, women, and children. In addition, CCMI prepares and delivers nutritious packaged meals and beverages for the homebound hungry, offers a food pantry and mobile food pantries that provide emergency groceries to families in need, serves two nutritious meals a day for the children in their Montessori Preschool and oversees a backpack program for local schoolchildren who would otherwise receive little to no food on weekends. CCMI is a United Way agency. CCMI serves Fort Myers and the greater Lee County area, including Bonita Springs, Cape Coral and Lehigh Acres.
Sponsorships and entrants are now being accepted. For more information visit www.ballalldaylong.com or call (619) 471-6757.
Community Cooperative Ministries (CCMI) was incorporated in 1984, and has long been a driving force in the Fort Myers community, providing food to homeless and nearly homeless, as well as emergency groceries and affordable childcare to the working poor. In July of 2006 the agency expanded its mission and outreach to Lee County by merging with agencies that had historically provided home delivered meals to the homebound hungry (Meals on Wheels), and transportation services to the frail elderly (Faith In Action) and The Soup Kitchen. This merger created an agency that is able to provide comprehensive, unduplicated services to the homeless, nearly homeless, homebound, seniors and children more effectively, more efficiently and with greater compassion than at any other time in the former agencies histories.