Mark and Amy Wilson discuss "Blessings in a Backpack". T.J. Rives from "Playing Thru" on the PGA TOUR Network (SIRIUS 209, XM 146) visits with PGA TOUR player Mark Wilson and his wife, Amy, discussing the "Blessings in a Backpack" charity initiative they support and the 2009 BMW Championship.
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Every Wednesday during her junior and senior years at Glenbrook North High School in Northbrook, Ill., Amy Carlson would board a bus during the school day and travel to Damen Avenue, a mile south of the United Center, home to the Chicago Bulls and Chicago Blackhawks. As she stared out the window during the 30-minute ride there, most of Amy's thoughts were on Charlie, who was cute, friendly and just a little shy. Charlie didn't go to Amy's school. Charlie didn't live close to her. So in order to see him, Amy had to board a bus and head to Charlie's school -- Gladstone. Charlie was a 9-year-old third-grader, and Amy was his mentor through a program her high school called BASICS -- Brothers And Sisters In Caring and Sharing. "I just loved it," says Amy of her two-year experience tutoring and mentoring Charlie. "My older brother, Scott, had been involved in the program, and I watched him and knew I wanted to do it when I became old enough."
Today, Charlie's former mentor is known as Amy Wilson after she married PGA TOUR player Mark Wilson. Her interest in charitable pursuits hasn't diminished, even now that she's a mother to a child of her own. She's also president of the PGA TOUR Wives Association, an organization established to "render and provide assistance to needy children and their families through the means of charitable events."
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Hilary Duff and Stan Curtis bring Blessings in a Backpack to its second continent and third nation. Recently, Hilary Duff and Stan Curtis visited Bogata, Columbia to celebrate our new program. Hilary's August 14-17 visit to Bogota, Colombia to launch the Blessings in a Backpack weekend nutrition program for school children with program founder Stan Curtis was documented in videos on YouTube by wonderful and supportive fans from all over Latin America. The opportunity to bring Blessings In A Backpack to Bogota, was made possible by an amazing invitation from Bogota Mayor Samuel Moreno. During her stay, Hilary was honored by being named Bogota's "Ambassador For The Youth".
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