S.D. Top Donor in Worldwide Benefit
San Diego residents gave more money to an international benefit for children’s hospitals than any other city, a spokesman said Wednesday.
San Diego contributed more than $2.5 million of the $89.4 million raised during the Children’s Miracle Network Telethon, said Mark Morelli, a spokesman for San Diego Children’s Hospital.
The two-day telethon held at Disneyland last weekend was beamed via satellite to 180 cities in the United States, Canada and the Soviet Union. The eighth annual fund-raiser was sponsored by the Osmond Foundation in Salt Lake City.
The more than $2.5 million raised in San Diego will go to Children’s Hospital, the pediatric trauma center for all of San Diego, Morelli said.
The money will be used to purchase a $32,000 vital-signs monitor and child-size anesthesia equipment, as well as fund community programs such as safe-sitter instruction and CPR classes, he said.
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