YWCA Ethnic Orange County: Tasting Flavors of your Community

For thousands of years, immigrants to this country have brought foods, culinary practices, beliefs about food, and related traditions with them. Sharing food has been a way for all people of all cultures to sustain and create meaningful and emotional bonds. Come  and join us to explore the flavors of your community through a dinner series. Call (714) 871-4488

Monopoly Event

(Fullerton, CA, June 5, 2010) – Over 56 players gathered together to have some serious fun competing in the YWCA of North Orange County’s fifth annual MONOPOLY® Tournament. Sponsored by Chevron and endorsed by Hasbro Inc., the event raised $4,200.  Proceeds from the tournament will benefit the YWCA North Orange County in their effort to provide breast cancer detection services to uninsured, low-income women, economic empowerment programs to at-risk youth for employment and career assistance, formal dresses to low income high school girls to attend their proms, as well as to wives of soldiers to attend the annual Marine Corps Birthday Ball.

            The day-long competition included two 90-minute preliminary rounds of the MONOPOLY^® game, as well as a final round of play with the top six competitors. The Honorable Mayor Don Bankhead came in fifth in the first  round of play. Mr. Gary Heller, VP/Research & Audience Management at CBS Radio, won the tournament in the Championship round with assets totaling $12,998.

            Mr. Ken Koury placed second, Brian Boles placed third, Peter Schlosser placed fourth, Craig Way placed fifth, and Robert Ellis, last year’s Champion, placed sixth. All are experienced national MONOPOLY® players. Also in attendance was Lee Bayrd, past world champion,  Matt McNally, past national champion, and Kevin Tostado, who is the director of an upcoming documentary about MONOPOLY® called “Under the Boardwalk.” Look for it in theatres later this year.

            According to Diane Masseth-Jones, tournament director, “It was fun to see players pitting their real estate trading skills against other top players while helping out a worthy cause.”    The MONOPOLY® game competition is one of many local tournaments held nationwide to assist organizations such as the YWCA North Orange County in raising funds for their causes. 

The MONOPOLY® game, the world’s most popular proprietary board game, is licensed in more than 80 countries and printed in more than 26 languages, including French, Italian, Spanish, Greek, German, Dutch, Flemish, Swedish, Finnish, Russian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Japanese, Chinese, Arabic, and Hebrew.  Since it first went on the market in 1935, over 200 million MONOPOLY games have been sold worldwide and are now played by an estimated 250 million people.

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