RICKIE wEEKS NAMED BREWERS NOMINEE....

09/07/2010 3:54 PM ET
Rickie Weeks Named Brewers Nominee for the 2010 Roberto Clemente Award Presented by Chevrolet

Major League Baseball and Chevrolet, the official vehicle of Major League Baseball, today announced that Rickie Weeks was named the Brewers 2010 nominee for the prestigious Roberto Clemente Award presented by Chevrolet. Weeks is one of the 30 Club nominees who are finalists for the national award, which is given annually to the Major League Baseball player who combines a dedication to giving back to the community with outstanding skills on the baseball field. Tomorrow will mark the ninth annual Roberto Clemente Day, which was established by Major League Baseball to honor Clemente's legacy and to officially recognize local Club nominees of the Roberto Clemente Award presented by Chevrolet.
The Roberto Clemente Award presented by Chevrolet recognizes players who best represent the game of baseball through sportsmanship, community involvement and positive contributions to their Clubs. The award is named for the 12-time All-Star and Hall of Famer who died in a plane crash on New Year's Eve 1972 while attempting to deliver supplies to earthquake victims in Nicaragua. The award pays tribute to Clemente's achievements and character by recognizing talented current players who truly understand the value of helping others.
Weeks is involved in numerous charitable programs. He provides his time and financial support to the Beckum-Stapleton Little League and hosted a bowl-a-thon for the group earlier this year. He is also a supporter of the Boys & Girls Club of Greater Milwaukee, where he provides a van each year for the organization's transportation needs. In addition, he served as the Honorary Chair for the American Diabetes Association's Black Tie Gala, helping raise over $100,000. Rickie's financial support extends to the Rickie's Rookies Program, which provides 500 tickets to a Brewers game and t-shirts each season to various Little League programs throughout Wisconsin. Additionally, he organized the Rickie Weeks Scholarship Fund and has donated $10,000 in scholarship funds for local students.
Prior to tomorrow night's Brewers game against the St. Louis Cardinals, Weeks will participate in a pre-game ceremony to present a check to his hometown charity, God's House Ministries/V.Weeks Outreach and Development with a donation made possible by Chevrolet. As one of 30 Club nominees for the 2010 Roberto Clemente Award, fans can vote for Rickie at www.chevy.com/clemente to be selected as the overall winner from all 30 MLB teams. Fan voting and a special selection committee will determine the national winner, which will be announced at the World Series.
The distinguished list of national Roberto Clemente Award recipients includes 13 members of the National Baseball Hall of Fame.
Fans are encouraged to participate in the process of selecting the national award recipient by visiting www.chevy.com/clemente, powered by MLB.com and created specifically for the Roberto Clemente Award platform, from September 7 to October 8 to vote for one of the 30 Club nominees. Participating fans will be automatically registered for a chance to win a trip to the 2010 World Series, where the national winner of the Roberto Clemente Award presented by Chevrolet will be announced.
The winner of the fan poll will receive one vote among those cast by the selection panel, which includes Vera Clemente, wife of the late Hall of Famer; Commissioner Selig; MLB Network analyst and former Roberto Clemente Award winner Harold Reynolds; MLB Network analyst, TBS broadcaster and former Roberto Clemente Award winner John Smoltz; Hall of Famer and ESPN broadcaster Joe Morgan; former All-Star catcher and FOX broadcaster Tim McCarver; and MLB.com senior correspondent Hal Bodley.
MLB celebrates Roberto Clemente Day as part of the broader "MLB Going Beyond" platform, which strives to integrate community service and the importance of giving back.

EXCITING NEWS!! VWOD...

FUNDING RECIEVED FROM: mlb players trust

Letter received stated:

..."V.Weeks Outreach and Development has been presented with a check of $5,000 on behalf of Rickie Weeks and All Major League Baseball Players.

They are pleased that Rickie has selected a worthwhile cause as the beneficiary of this contribution, and all Major League Baseball players are pleased to help support your good works. We would be delighted if you could send us an update in the coming months to let us know how this contribution was put to use. "


From : Melissa Persaud

PHONERAISER!!!!! Another Fundraiser...

V.WEEKS OUTREACH AND DEVELOPMENT IS CONDUCTING A FUNDRAISER THAT DOESN'T REQUIRE ANY MONEY!!!!!

NO CASH DONATIONS!!!!

PLEASE, WE ASK ALL WHO HAVE UNWANTED CELL PHONES, PDA'S, INKJET CARTRIDGES...TO PLEASE DONATE THEM FOR TWO WORTHY CAUSES...

1) SAVING OUR ENVIRONMENT FROM POLLUTING OUR DRINKING WATER. ONE CELL PHONE DAMAGES ABOUT 35,000 GALLONS OF DRINKING WATER, WHEN DUMPED INTO LANDFILLS.

2) PROCEEDS WILL GO TOWARDS THE ONGOING OF OUR ORGANIZATION.

PLEASE SUPPORT US!!

GreatTasting Fundraiser Event!!!

I am Hosting a Fundraiser at Friendly's Restaurant in Altamonte Springs. The Fundraiser is called: Family & Friends Fun Night Fundraiser. THis event will help my Church God's House Ministries youth organization. THe Organization is called: "V.Weeks
Outreach and Development." geared towards at risk youth who live in economically deprived areas and we assists them through providing certain programs to help them re-direct their attention to positive outlooks and success.

This Fundraiser will be held ** Wednesday, October 27th starting at5pm-8pm.

I have THREE professional MLB players that will be in attends and they happen to be locals. (Rickie Weeks, Milwaukee Brewers 2nd baseman/Mike Rivera,
Marlons-Catcher and Minor League Player Jemile Weeks, Oakland A's 2nd baseman)


COME OUT AND SUPPORT!!!!

Info on Rakeya Farrelly :-(

Additional information on funeral arragements: The viewing of the body will be held Friday 24, 2010 from 6-8 pm. And the actually funeral service will be on Saturday 26th at Love Tabernacle. I ask that all youth apart of V.W.O.D to please be in attendance to show support and give your love to her and her mother and brother. This is truly a hard lost because Rakeya was just beginning to start her adventurous life and began to grow into the woman that God created and although life was taken...NEW LIFE BEGINS. :-) Remember life is surely too short.

P.s> to all Parents: please take time out to recognize more of the great things your child has to offer and less of the negative. Because we see how short life can be, you should spend more time LOVING, HUGING & KISSING THEM, as oppose to fussing and arguing. Its not a bad thing parents to tell your child "I'M SORRY" Sometimes parents get caught up in the "I'M THE PARENT AND YOUR THE CHILD," but sometimes thats not always needed to be said. So lets use this terrible lost as an eye opener. LOVE EVERYBODY!!!

* YOUTH CORNER *

Straunje (doris) Nelson~

Miss Doris is in the Theatre/Drama acting class at Dr. Phillips High school. She is in the 10th grade. She recently participated in the play "Les Miserable" as a factory worker, beggar and mother, on May 2, 2010. She was also apart of " The Gala" as a dancer on April 18-21, 2010.

CONGRATS TO DORIS NELSON!!

* YOUTH CORNER *

Antisha Morgan~

Miss. Antisha Morgan competed in the Mall Model Search for 2010 in February. She is now the new Miss Mall Model 2010. She won a year contract and has plans to endure traveling to different auditions to reach her success goals of being a model/singer.


CONGRATS TO ANTISHA MORGAN!!

* YOUTH CORNER *

Mr. Raphel (RJ) had a great season in basketball, as well as track & Field for OCSD. He traveled to Tampa, Gainsville, and schools here in Orange county to compete. He played on the A&B wheelchair Wildcats team. Rj won several ribbons and medals for first and second place.

GREAT JOB! RJ...

Celebrate Graduation!!

Celebrating Our (V.W.O.D) Very first GRADUATES !! We are so excited to announce Rakeya J.L Farrelly & Darius T. Conyers Grads of 2010!!!!!!!

Rakeya Farrelly, born June 9, 1992 and will be graduating on June 5, 2010 @8am. She is currently a senior at Edgewater High school, following graduation, she will be attending Florida A&M University in Tallahassee, FL this coming August. She will be majoring in criminal justice.

Darius T. Conyers was born December 22, 1991. He attends Evans High school and will be graduating June 4, 2010 @12pm. He plans to enlist in the U.S. Marine Corp. He is in the process of training/conditioning for the armed forces.

CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR VERY FIRST HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATES!! WE'RE PROUD OF YOU!!!!

VWeeks Outreach & Development.

Have you ever felt like you had a talent and wanted to showcase it but didn't know how, because you dont want people to laugh at you. LOL...Well I am stepping out and attempting to break that barrier and go for all I know I can do and see how far it takes me. Don't be afraid to shine my lovely people. If you don't , then somebody else will. Much Love , prosperity and Peace!

" HoW InTeReStInG..."

How interesting when you have been instilled by parents and other mentors that a college education is the way to success and a good job, but when you graduate nine times out of ten that dream job or just a job period isn't out there for you??...interesting...How interesting it is, how classy females, who carry themselves with decency and respect, integrity, with confidence and there educated, and if nothing else they love God and reverence him, but yet they get over looked by MEN because they aren’t quote "De-classay." Why, they would rather have someone irresponsible, selfish, no self worth, and most of all no goals...besides hitting the jackpot!...hmm, interesting...How interesting it is, how a year to two years ago we said we would never do this or try that or go here or go their and all of a sudden we find ourselves doing, going and or trying that very thing!...interesting...isn't it interesting how the people who we never thought to ever converse with, one’s who did you wrong in the past , who left you hanging and talked about you , you now find them trying to interact with you, needing you for advice, checking on you to see how you’re doing...that's interesting...this world we live in, where we create our experiences and our memories and the minor or major mishaps; It’s like a virus. Because, we as human beings, whom which we all were created from dust, we tend to let the evil of this world consume us and embrace our way of thinking, our way of treating one another, we somehow gave the evilness of this world the green light to go; being able to create society's way of thinking and society will determine what the meaning of success will be for you and me, which clearly is wrong! It should be determined by the individual and how that person thinks is success. But as I write these things down, I'm realizing that it’s not the world that screwed us up or gave some of us a one-dimensional mind set, but God created everything on this earth good. Somehow we as a society, as a people, changed that. And this is how things ARE SO INTERESTING



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WHOOO DAT!!! Nation (saint's all the way!)

So tomorrow's the big day! Everybody is on the edge of their seats waiting with anticipation to find out who will be the 2010 Super bowl Champion. Well, since this is my blog, I am going to dish out my personal prediction of the games outcome...I going for the SAINT'S!! Theirs a number of reason's why, first, if I must sound a little cliche, the saint's winning the super bowl will do so much for the New Orleans community. Matter of fact not just for New Orleans, but for all of Louisiana. This state suffered a dramatic and tragic experience, where the memories of this event will never be forgotten. So, with that being sad saint's bringing home the "W" will light up the "WHO DAT" nation. In addition to my reason's for why I want and feel the saint's will win, is because the saint's actually put up the numbers ! They had a winning season (13-3) , by the way they were at one point undefeated...but we won't go their. My other reason is THIS IS THEIR 1st NFC SOUTH and that says a lot because they deserve it. Between the great defensive line busting their butts and the offensive line holding it down...shots out to Drew breeze, Pierre Thomas , Reggie Bush & more, all of these athletes truly work together as a team , they have a chemistry that works and they know it works and they thrive off that. So in conclusion to my reason's , this is why everyone and they MOMMA should be cheering on the SAINT'S. Now, just because I said all of this, please don't mistaken my choice of reason's and personal opinions , as ignorance. Yes the COLTS ARE VERY GOOD, with an experience, well trained & seasoned quarterback Peyton Manning....LET'S JUST SAY THIS WILL PROBABLY BE A MEMORABLE SUPER BOWL WATCHED

Support One5 Foundations

This foundations represents so much, it could take all day to go in details, but if I had to sum it up...Its a great organization that is mostly geared towards helping quote "Orphans and other vulnerable children," but now that this drasstic disaster of an Earthquake has happen One5 has reached out and have been providing medical relief to hundreds of people over in HAITI. They also, have teamed up with other relief organizations in efforts to provide medical care and assistants to the people. Let us help One5 play a part and donate $10 towards this foundation so that they can continue providing care. To donate text "one5" to 85944 and lets make a difference.

"if not them people...it could have been us."


www.one5.org (checkout their website for more info.)