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MEDIA RELEASES

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April 30, 2006 Donor Family Recognition Ceremony - GSDS Donor Remembrance Quilt Unveiling

April 6, 2006 A “Ride Across America” All-Terrain Vehicle (ATV) Tour - Welcomed by Sacramento Firefighters and Transplant Community

March 30, 2006 Donate Life California Registry - Record Levels

January 26, 2006 A Record Year for Life-Saving Transplants

December 29, 2005 Recipient to Ride on Rose Bowl Parade Float

December 22, 2005 A Mother’s Holiday Wish - Sonja Powell Waits for Two Life-Saving Transplants

December 19, 2005 Renewed Bonds of Life - Two Sisters Give Kidneys to Two Siblings

November 11, 2005 Stories of Life and Hope Shared on National Donor Sabbath

August 2, 2005 Donate Life California Online Registry Jumps Forward with 100,000 Registrants

March 15, 2005 California Launches First Online State Organ, Tissue Donor Registry

November 20, 2004 Exclusive One Time Showing of "Blizzard"

July 22nd, 2004 – 2004 U.S. Transplant Games- Local Donor Family Celebrates Organ Recipient Athletes

June 20th, 2004 – A Father for All Days

April 25, 2004 – Two Families – Joined by One Life and One Gift –
Come Together at Special Donor Family Recognition Ceremony

March 25th, 2004 – NEW LIFE CELEBRATED AT "GIFT OF LIFE" ROSE PLANTING CEREMONY ON STATE CAPITOL GROUNDS

February 9th, 2004 – 14-year-old Heart Transplant Recipient Gives Valentine to Man who Lost his True Love While She Awaited Life-Saving Transplant

February 14th, 2003 – “A Perfect Match” – Gift of Love and Life Given this Valentine’s Day

December 29th, 2003 – It is a Christmas gift, a birthday present and now an approaching New Year’s celebration, rolled into one like no other for the father of three boys, James “Jim” Sidey of El Dorado Hills.

November 14th, 2003 – It's About Giving Life – Transplant Recipients and Donor Family Members Share Stories of Hope on National Donor Sabbath (November 14-16, 2003)

November 1st, 2003 – Organ Recovery Agency Honors “Life-Givers”
Community Partners for Life Honored at Annual Volunteer Luncheon

July 13th, 2003 – Tour de Life – 2,200 Bike Trek Across the Country Kicks Off in Sacramento’s Discovery Park, Sunday, July 13, 2003 – 10 a.m.

June 20th, 2003 – A Winning Team for Life – Transplant Kids Throw First Pitches in the River Cats “Donate Life” Night

April 23rd, 2003 – Heroes Who Gave Gift of Life
Honored at Special Donor Family Recognition Ceremony
– Sacramento and Santa Rosa Families Come Together to Pay Tribute and Heal

April 8th, 2003 – Snowboard Olympic Medalist and Liver Recipient Chris Klug to Share Olympic Medal Story and Experience with Northern California Transplant Recipients

January 16th, 2003 – One of Nation's Longest Living Kidney Recipients Celebrates 25 Years of Gratitude for Gift of Life

December 23, 2002 – Hoping for a Gift of Life this Holiday Season – Two Sacramento Area Families Wait for Life–Saving Transplants

December 18th, 2002 – Heart Transplant Teen Snowboarding Her Way to Gold
13–year–old Lacey Wood of Fairplay, CA
Competes in Switzerland and Italy "Transplant Winter Games"

December 18th, 2002 – Santa Has a New Heart and Kidney – Those Gifts of Life Bring Joy to his Grandchildren and Others

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