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# Community plays ball for shelter dogs
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/community-plays-ball-for-shelter-dogs/
- Published: 2006-08-19T15:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-23T21:16:26.000Z
- Author: Guest Author
- Tags: Community, Santa Monica, #archive-import, Homeless

*By Daily Press staff*

Community leaders, friends and softball players turned out on Aug. 12 at Memorial Park to play the staff and volunteers of K9 Connection in a fundraising softball game to benefit homeless shelter dogs and at-risk school youth.

Spectators and players dined on free Mexican fare before hitting the diamond to support K9’s adoption outreach volunteering program and their three-week classes for counselor-referred teens from participating local schools.

“Our volunteers take a short training class at the city of Santa Monica’s Animal Shelter

*Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on August 19, 2006.* [Read the original PDF.](https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/smdp%5Fbackissues/081906.pdf?ref=smdp.com)