1. The Influence of Professional Sports in Pittsburgh
... for Patients, a program that provides nursing home patients in the Pittsbugh area with gifts for the holidays; Race for the Cure, an event benefiting Breast Cancer research; the Make-A-Wish Foundation, an organization which links terminally ill children with their lifetime dreams; and Toys for Tots, a program that distributes toy donations to needy children. Numerous touching examples of the Steelers helping ... 1993 through March 2 of the same year, Lemieux established a number of projects to assist both the Pittsburgh community and the cancer-fighting community. He began by founding t...
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