Through their social enterprises , Torch Club youth raised $200 to host
a live opera performance.

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Special Olympics' Athlete Shawn Stainbrook Was the First American to Win a Gold Medal at the 2005 Winter World Games Held in Nagano Japan

We will keep them in our thoughts as they work to rebuild their lives. Torch Club-Spring Branch is part of Boys +
Girls Clubs of Americas' leadership program, a chartered small-group
leadership and service club for boys and girls ages 10-12.

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In Northern California 14,000 athletes
currently compete in 19 Olympic-style sports."
The company will match the $45,000 in employee contributions and make an
additional donation of $10,000, bringing the combined total of corporate and
employee giving to $100,000. By providing children from at-risk families
with books they can take home and keep, First Book-Houston targets the
only variable that correlates significantly with reading scores , the
number of books in one's home.

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Immediately following the
performance, the children will be treated to a special story time and
receive a new copy of the book that the performance is based upon,
provided by First Book-Houston at a reception with Torch Club
participants and their parents .

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WHAT: Effort to give children their first opera experience +
ownership of their first new books
WHEN: Saturday, March 12, 2005 at 10 a.

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Torch Club works to promote and facilitate the distribution of new
books to literacy programs in the Houston and Spring Branch areas.

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WORCESTER , Mass. The company's contributions will be split
equally between the International Relief Fund of the American Red Cross, which
will provide immediate and long-term relief in the form of supplies , human
resources and technical support, and to UNICEF, which is supporting the most
pressing needs of separated and orphaned children in the region. Taken together, Hanover and Citizens rank among the 30
largest property and casualty insurance groups in the United States.

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Shawn performed exceptionally and brought home several gold medals
from the World Games and was the very first American of the games to
receive a gold medal.
WHERE: Spring Branch Family Development Center's Boys and Girls Club
(8575 Pitner Road, Houston, Texas 77080)
CONTACT: LaTonya Moore, 713-419-3947, houston_tx@firstbook .

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Allmerica Financial is a group of insurance companies headed by Allmerica
Financial Corporation , a Fortune 500 company. Approximately 100
children will see HGO's Opera to GO! performance of Cinderella in
Spain/Cenicienta en Espana and have the opportunity to ask the
performers questions regarding the show.
First Book-Houston is part of First Book, a national non-profit
organization with a single mission: to give children from at-risk
families the opportunity to read and own their first new books. In the
past three years, First Book has distributed over 20 million new books
to children in need in hundreds of communities nationwide.

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Offering the opportunity to see an
opera provides these youth with an appreciation for cultural arts,
lasting memories, and helps satisfy their community service
requirement.

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First Book-Houston Partners with Houston Grand Opera's Opera To GO! to Improve Literacy + Promote the Arts at Boys + Girls Clubs

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He won three gold medals in the 1K Cross
Country, 3K Cross Country and the 4X100 Cross Country.

CISV is an independent, non-political volunteer organization promoting peace education and cross-cultural friendship.

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, Allmerica Financial
Corporation (NYSE: AFC) and its subsidiaries, Citizens Insurance Company of
America and The Hanover Insurance Company, today announced that the companies
and their employees will donate $100,000 to ongoing tsunami relief efforts in
the Asian-Pacific region. Allmerica's lead companies
include Worcester, Mass. Their
members learn to elect officers and work together to implement
activities in four areas: service to Club and community, education,
health and fitness and social recreation .

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NAGANO, Japan----Shawn Stainbrook
from Nevada traveled to Nagano, Japan for the 2005 Special Olympics
World Winter Games February 26 through March 5, 2005 .

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-based The Hanover Insurance Company, founded in 1852,
and Howell, Mich.org

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"Our hearts are with those families who have lost so much.

First
Book-Houston's Local Advisory Board unites leaders from all sectors of
the community who volunteer and distribute new books to literacy
programs, and other community based programs in an effort to help
children of at-risk families start their own home libraries.

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Access to cultural arts and books are essential to reading
development and character building; however, over 90 percent of
at-risk families enrolled in Boys + Girls Clubs have no access to
books or cultural events.

CISV provides a range of unique educational group activities which develop cross cultural understanding in children and youth from around the world.

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HOUSTON----First Book-Houston and
HGO's Opera to GO! join forces with Torch Club to help give brand new
books and an opera experience to children of residents served through
the Spring Branch Family Development Center.

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By encouraging respect for cultural differences and the development of self-awareness, CISV empowers each participant to incorporate these values into their lives as they become global citizens and strive for a more peaceful world.

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The mission of Special Olympics is to provide year-round sports
training and competition in a variety of Olympic style sports for
individuals eight years-of-age and older with developmental
disabilities, giving them continuing opportunities to develop physical
fitness, demonstrate courage , experience joy and participate in the
sharing of gifts, skill and friendship with their families , other
athletes, and the community.
"Faced with reports of overwhelming need, our employees responded with
great generosity, contributing $45,000 to many different tsunami relief
agencies ," said Frederick H.m.

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Allmerica Its Employees and Subsidiaries Contribute $100 000 to Tsunami Relief Efforts

Eppinger, Allmerica's president and chief
executive officer.-based Citizens Insurance Company of America, founded in
1915.
Opera to GO! is sponsored by Houston Grand Opera and its singers
are artists and residents at Houston Community College's Central
Campus. The performance features costumes, portable sets, an
accompanist, and live singers.

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The first
Special Olympics World Games held in Asia drew more than 2,000
athletes and 650 coaches from 80 countries around the world, as well
as thousands of family members, volunteers, spectators and journalists
from every continent. Both companies offer a range of property and casualty insurance
coverages to individuals , families and businesses through a broad network of
independent agents. It is a professional touring company that produces fully
staged portable operas in English for students in Kindergarten through
7th grade.