Soccer Games Planned To Benefit Peruvian Earthquake Victims

SPRINGDALE-Members of the Northwest Arkansas Hispanic community are organizing benefit soccer games for Peruvian earthquake victims.Carlos Chicas, with representatives of First Bank Security, Tyson, Cargill and the Red Cross, will stage the games Sept. 8-9 at the Boys & Girls Club of Fayetteville, off Wedington Drive on Rupple Road.Chicas was in Guatemala when he learned of the 8.0-magnitude earthquake in Peru. He said he decided to organize soccer games to help the Peruvians.Fourteen soccer teams are scheduled to participate in the event. Red Cross representatives will collect donations to send to earthquake victims, said Liliana Heredia-Taylor, emergency services director with the Red Cross.The games will be from 5 to 9 p.m. Sept. 8 and from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Sept. 9 at the Boys & Girls Club.Attendees age 12 and over are asked to make a $2 donation.Representatives of La Tremenda, KAKF, a local Spanish-language radio station, collected $3,000 Saturday for the victims of the earthquake, said Jose Antonio Goches, a station personality known as "El Turbo.""We washed cars and around 150 people showed up to help the victims of the earthquake," Goches said.Representatives of Tyson and Cargill are scheduled to provide food for those attending the soccer games, Chicas said.Rebecca Gaffing, marketing director with First Security Bank, said the bank is providing a grill and cooks.Thousands of families were left homeless by the earthquake and more than 500 people were killed.Getting emergency supplies to tens of thousands of people left homeless is a logistical nightmare for the Peruvian government.

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