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Donate Life Day with the San Francisco Giants

 Media Advisory / Photo Opportunity



Contact:  Anthony
Borders, CTDN Communications Manager or Mel Bearns, Communications Specialist, 510.273.1229



Transplant recipients celebrate 25 years

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17th Annual
Giants Donate Life Day at AT&T Park



Wednesday,
July 30, 2014, 11:45 a.m.

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The parents of Kelly Olmo and Jill Nolen met in the
hospital more than 25 years ago, as their children lay dying of liver disease.
They prayed for a lifesaving transplant. Each child was lucky and received liver
transplants which, at the time, were risky on those so young. Today, thanks to their
donors, both Kelly and Jill are now more than 25 years post-transplant.



Kelly and Jill will be reunited at the Giants
game as “Ball Dudes.” They will wear authentic Giants gear and be on the field
to shag foul balls.



For 17 years, the Giants have hosted a Donate
Life Day with the California Transplant Donor Network (CTDN) a nonprofit
organization dedicated to saving and improving lives through organ and tissue
donation.  The day focuses on the more
than 10,000 Northern Californians in need of organ transplants, encouraging
fans to join the San Francisco Giants and register as organ and tissue donors.



OPPORTUNITY: 
 
Interview Kelly and
Jill prior to the game. Also, former American Idol finalist and kidney
transplant recipient, Scott MacIntyre, who will sing the national anthem, in
his partnership with Donate Life America and Genentech, a member of the Roche
Group. Also on hand will be Carlos Esquivel, Chief of the Division of
Transplantation, Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford, who performed
both transplants.



 Kelly Olmo,
27, from Pleasanton
had less than one week to live when her own liver
failed just after her 2nd birthday. With a donated liver, she’s
lived a full life and recently got engaged. “I want people to know that donation
saved my life, and it can save many people’s lives.”



 Jill Nolen, 25, from North Fork, South of
Yosemite National Park,
was less than six months old when she received her first
liver transplant. When that failed,
she required another transplant just
5 months later. Nolen is a dedicated athlete and coaches gymnastics and
tumbling as well as playing softball. “I try to live my borrowed life to the
fullest on a day to day basis.”



 Scott
MacIntyre, 29, from Scottsdale, Arizona
is a singer-songwriter who has been visually
impaired since birth. At age 19, he was diagnosed with stage-four kidney
failure. After a year on dialysis, the wife of his college piano teacher
donated her kidney to MacIntyre and changed his life. Less than a year later,
he became the first blind finalist to compete on “American Idol.”



California
Transplant Donor Network



The
California Transplant Donor Network saves and improves lives by facilitating
organ and tissue donation for transplantation. The California Transplant Donor
Network helps 170 hospitals in 40 Northern and Central California and Northern
Nevada counties offer the option of organ and tissue donation to families whose
loved ones have died, coordinates deceased organ recovery and placement, and
provides public education with the hope that every resident will become a
donor. The California Transplant Donor Network is federally designated as the
region’s organ recovery organization. For information, visit www.ctdn.org



 Giants
Community Fund



The Giants Community Fund
collaborates with the San Francisco Giants by using baseball as a forum to
encourage underserved youth and their families to live healthy, productive
lives. The Fund supports Junior Giants leagues throughout Northern California,
Nevada and Oregon and provides assistance to targeted community initiatives in
the areas of Education, Health and Violence Prevention. Since its inception in
1991, the Fund has donated over $15 million to community efforts.



 



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