Category: Press Releases

  • GODSMACK, CREED, Others Help Send Supply Plane To Haiti

    GODSMACK, CREED and RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE guitarist Tom Morello are some of the music luminaries who have partnered with multi-media company DC3 Music Group to raise enough money to pack an MD-80 airplane with supplies and medical personnel and send it to Haiti. According to a press release, the plane is scheduled to leave…

  • Dancing for the Stars to benefit the Wheelchair Foundation

    Local celebrities will be paired with dance instructors to raise money for charity in the Colleyville Rotary Club’s “Dancing for the Stars.” The event from 7 to 11 p.m. on Feb. 6 will take place at the Colleyville Center, 5301 Riverwalk Drive in Colleyville, Texas. Money raised will benefit the Grapevine-Colleyville Education Foundation, End Polio…

  • Wheelchairs To Help Chinese Locals See Expo

    THE Wheelchair Foundation will donate 2,010 wheelchairs to local neighborhoods to help the disabled visit the 2010 World Expo, officials yesterday. Anyone who needs a wheelchair can borrow one from the neighborhood committee for free during the Expo, the global charity said. The project aimed to allow more disabled people and seniors to have the…

  • A Blog Prayer from Kim Simplis-Barrow, First Lady of Belize

    “Lord, I just want to say thank you because this morning, I woke up and knew where my children were. This morning my home was still standing. This morning I am not crying because my husband, my child, my brother or sister needs to be rescued from a pile of concrete; because this morning I…

  • Long Time Volunteer Kate Moran-Shulman Passes

    Kate Moran-Shulman June 20, 1953 – Jan. 14, 2010 Resident of Alamo Beloved mother of David, Daniel, and Raymond Shulman; lifelong partner of husband Andy Shulman; devoted sister of Mary, Pat, Maureen, Linda and Dolly. Loving daughter of William and Catherine Moran. Kate touched the lives of everyone she encountered. She shined brightly with her…

  • Swartkei/Ezulu End Of Season Message

    2009 turned out to be a far better year than anyone expected. The news of the recession has been all doom and gloom, and yet we have had a great years’ hunting! We would say that one of the most exciting things for us has been the fact that we have had so many wives…

  • Wheelchair Foundation Sponsors Golden Tee Event

    The sixth annual Junior Achievement Professional Connection “Networking to a Tee” Golf Tournament Presented by AT&T was played on December 7 at Coral Ridge Country Club where 28 foursomes help raise more than $25,000 for Junior Achievement of South Florida. To date this tournament has raised almost $100,000. This years Associate Sponsor was Phil Smith…

  • David Behring Appears on Tri-Valley Community Focus TV30

    Wheelchair Foundation – Tri-Valley Community Focus TV30

  • George Komsky To Donate Portion Of Proceeds From Concert To Wheelchair Foundation

    After hundreds of performances with several famous groups, George Komsky, of Danville, is going solo. The 24-year-old tenor takes the stage March 19 at the Lesher Center in Walnut Creek. He will perform songs he describes as “opera, pop opera, Neapolitan classics and musical surprises.” George was the lead soloist for the North American tour of…

  • An Inspirational Trip to Belize With the Wheelchair Foundation

    Kurt was fussing over the last details on one of his paintings when the deafening tropical downpour stopped suddenly, as if to awaken him from a dream. Born and raised near the Guatemalan border in Belize, the 28-year-old artist created bright acrylic paintings of the tropical sea nearby. He sensed movement behind him. As he…