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.