Hurricane – Positive Celebrity News, Good Celebrity Gossip, Positive Entertainment News | Good Celebrity https://goodcelebrity.com Good Celebrity is your best source for positive celebrity news and interviews Tue, 17 Oct 2017 18:49:35 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.3.4 https://goodcelebrity.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/cropped-gc_logo_button_bkgd512px-32x32.png Hurricane – Positive Celebrity News, Good Celebrity Gossip, Positive Entertainment News | Good Celebrity https://goodcelebrity.com 32 32 7-Year-Old Boy Donates Prized Jersey for Puerto Rico Relief and Soccer Hero Responds https://goodcelebrity.com/2017/10/10/boy-donates-prized-jersey-puerto-rico-relief-soccer-hero-responds/ Tue, 10 Oct 2017 20:35:49 +0000 https://goodcelebrity.com/?p=3433 Would you give up your prized possession to help those in need? This 7-year-old boy did! He gave up his favorite jersey in order to help families in Puerto Rico affected by the recent devastating hurricanes. Alex Ibarra is a big-time soccer fanatic and has an impressive collection of 54 different jerseys. Out of all […]

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]]> Would you give up your prized possession to help those in need? This 7-year-old boy did! He gave up his favorite jersey in order to help families in Puerto Rico affected by the recent devastating hurricanes.

Alex Ibarra is a big-time soccer fanatic and has an impressive collection of 54 different jerseys. Out of all of them, there is one that he holds dearest to his heart, an autographed Christian Pulisic jersey from the American Outlaws Oakland team.

Ibarra had got his hands on the autographed jersey during the March World Cup in San Jose, CA. Following Hurricanes Irma, Maria, and then Puerto Rico’s he decided it was a brilliant idea to raffle off the jersey for money to benefit hurricane relief efforts.

“I’m raffling it off because I’m trying to raise money for the Puerto Ricans that don’t have food and water,” Alex said. “Puerto Rico’s really important to me because they’re one of our territories.”

Eventually, word got around to Christian Pulisic himself.

Pulisic took it into his own hands to respond to Ibarra via video. In his video, he said he would send him a new autographed jersey and make a donation himself to follow in his philanthropic footsteps.

At AO Oakland’s viewing party for a match against Panama, Ibarra was star struck and speechless when he finally saw the video of his forever idol thanking him for his selflessness and generosity.

Ibarra raffle raised roughly around $3,300 for the Hispanic Federation UNIDOS Disaster Relief Fund.

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]]> Mark Cuban Lends His Dallas Mavericks Plane To Puerto Rico Native J.J. Barea For Hurricane Relief https://goodcelebrity.com/2017/09/29/mark-cuban-lends-dallas-mavericks-plane-puerto-rico-native-j-j-barea-hurricane-relief/ Fri, 29 Sep 2017 16:32:04 +0000 https://goodcelebrity.com/?p=3393 This story came across my screen this morning through Facebook from my awesome friend Monique Moss of Beverly Hills-based Integrated PR. Not sure how I’d missed initially, but super cool to be able to feature Mark Cuban for the second time this month. (Keep doing good, Mark!) SEE: Pitch an Idea to “Shark Tank” Star […]

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]]> This story came across my screen this morning through Facebook from my awesome friend Monique Moss of Beverly Hills-based Integrated PR. Not sure how I’d missed initially, but super cool to be able to feature Mark Cuban for the second time this month. (Keep doing good, Mark!)

SEE: Pitch an Idea to “Shark Tank” Star Mark Cuban with Television Academy Foundation’s Emmy Season Auction

As Puerto Rico continues to struggle to recover from Hurricane Maria, many are doing what they can to help including The White House announced Thursday it had temporarily waived the 97-year old “Jones Act”, lifting restrictions on ships able to provide much-needed aid to the island.

However, another interesting story has emerged. Dallas Mavericks guard J.J. Barea, a native of Puerto Rico desperately needed a way to rescue his mother and grandmother from the U.S. territory.

As reported on by ESPN’s Tim MacMahon, Mark Cuban loaned out the Dallas Mavericks team plane to Barea to deliver supplies and pick up his mother and grandmother all in one swoop! According to Monique Moss, all it took was just one phone call!

One call from #DallasMavs player #PuertoRico native JJ Barea & Mark Cuban ‘s team plane was en route to San Juan stocked w/palettes of water & dozens of badly needed generators first light today. #CubanForPresident #HowCanIHelp
Read the details:http://wapo.st/2y7J8kz

(Monique Moss, Facebook)

The news comes two days after Barea was finally able to reach his family. Puerto Rico largely remains without power, water, and communication. Rescue and rebuilding efforts are still underway.

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]]> Nicolas Cage Gives a Heartfelt Speech to Thank Coast Guard Heroes https://goodcelebrity.com/2017/09/26/nicolas-cage-gives-heartfelt-speech-thank-coast-guard-heroes-hurricane-efforts/ Tue, 26 Sep 2017 18:52:19 +0000 https://goodcelebrity.com/?p=3378 Nicolas Cage is undeniably one of the most generous personalities in Hollywood today. Speaking of course to his $2 million donation to Amnesty International which was used for rehabilitation shelters and medical services to some of the 300,000 children forced to fight in conflicts around the world. He also donated $1 Million to the victims […]

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]]> Nicolas Cage is undeniably one of the most generous personalities in Hollywood today. Speaking of course to his $2 million donation to Amnesty International which was used for rehabilitation shelters and medical services to some of the 300,000 children forced to fight in conflicts around the world. He also donated $1 Million to the victims of Hurricane Katrina.

Recently Cage was honored by the United Nations for his work as a UN Ambassador for Global Justice.

Last weekend, the Academy Award winner was in Alabama filming his upcoming movie “Between Worlds”. While in the area, he visited a U.S. Coast Guard training center where he delivered a speech to a small crowd of Coast Guard service members and their families who helped with the rescue efforts following Hurricane Harvey in Texas and Irma in the Southeast.




“Through the many search and rescue missions and clearing the way so citizens can evacuate, we see the compassion that our military has for its people,” he said.

“The horror that these heroes experience during these search and rescue missions, will be etched in their hearts and minds forever. As a family man myself, I find it hard to imagine having to say goodbye to my family not knowing whether I will ever see them again. I can only imagine the bravery and strength it takes, working through floodwater, going door to door looking for survivors, pulling people out of the wreckage that they used to call home.”

A heart-warming moment indeed, for the modern-day heroes to be recognized and appreciated.

Nic Cage visits with the Coast Guard.
Credit: Courtesy Wesley Powell of the Coast Guard Aviation Training Center in Mobile, Alabama

 

Ending his speech with a shaking voice, he concluded: “It is truly an honor to be with you, who put your lives on the line in these times of crisis, and I thank you for inviting me to be in the presence of such incredibly giant hearts and heroes.”

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