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 | | Issaquah Soccer Club 'Gets a Kick Out of Sharing'September was Youth Soccer Month and players from the Issaquah Soccer Club's GU-15 team spent the past two weekends at the Lake Sammamish State Park soccer fields collecting new and gently used soccer balls and cash donations for World Vision's "Get a Kick Out of Sharing" program. Read full story ... |
 The Gift of Soccer BallsAs we began pulling the soccer balls — a dozen in all — from the duffle bag, curious faces broke into broad smiles. Like many children in the developing world, these Rwandan boys spent hours each week perfecting their soccer skills. Yet seldom, if ever, had any of them touched a real soccer ball. Read full story ... | |  |
| | Giving a Gift to BootBy Rick S. Alvord; Longview Daily News, Longview, WAOn any given weekend, hundreds of children storm the manicured soccer fields at Longview's Seventh Avenue Park. | |
| They wear colorful uniforms and kick state-of-the-art soccer balls. Some games are just for fun, while others are more competitive. Either way, the kids' passion for the game is unmistakable. A similar passion burns a world away in Africa's remote and rural villages. Children there use soccer balls made of rags and socks that are banded together with string. Sometimes it's easier to boot a coconut around the dirt fields. Read full story ... | ||
Seattle Area Seniors 'Get a Kick Out of Sharing' With World VisionAs he marched to his second day of soccer camp at Game Farm Park in Auburn, Shane Gunstone carried a bag of soccer balls nearly as big as his 9-year-old frame. Read full story ... | |  |
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