CELEBRITIES RETURN FOR FUND-RAISING WEEKEND
The Daily Nonpareil
September 25, 2002
By Greg Jerrett
This will be a weekend of stars over Council Bluffs as Marg Helgenberger of the CBS ratings-grabber CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, and her husband, Alan Rosenberg of the ‘break-out drama’ The Guardian play host to Marg and Alan’s Celebrity Weekend.
Celebrity Weekend is presented by Harrah’s Hotel and Casino and sponsored in part by The Daily Nonpareil.
In a joint statement, Helgenberger and Rosenberg expressed their excitement at coming to the area to help raise money for local cancer charities.
“We’re excited to be coming to Omaha with a new charity event and we’re excited to once again be supporting the Cancer Centers at Jennie Edmundson and Methodist Hospitals.”
John Zaring, event producer of Zaring/Cioffi Entertainment in Valencia, Calif., said Marg and Alan’s Celebrity Weekend is meant to be a community event.
“The mission of Celebrity Weekend is to create an affordable and fun community event that raises funds to support the fight against breast cancer,” Zaring said. “Marg and Alan are committed to the Council Bluffs/Omaha community and Marg and Alan’s Celebrity Weekend will be a good time for everyone.”
Celebrity Weekend will begin Friday, but the highlight of the weekend is a two-day golf tournament at Dodge Riverside Golf Club that will feature celebrities from TV, movies, music and comedy. Saturday’s pro/am golf event will not be open to the public, but Sunday the starts will be hitting the green alone for an open-to-the-public exhibition.
In addition to the onlookers, benefiting from the event’s tickets sales and amateur participation fees will be the Cancer Centers of Jennie Edmundson Hospital in Council Bluffs and Methodist Hospital in Omaha.
Celebrities, in addition to Marg and Alan, who will purportedly be in attendance are Zachary Ty Bryan (Home Improvement, Buffy the Vampire Slayer), R. Lee Ermey (Full Metal Jacket, Seven, Cracker), Sam McMurray (The Sopranos, Drop Dead Gorgeous), Bobby Constanzo (Friends), Rock Carroll (The Agency), John Aylward (ER, Bad Company), Vyto Ruginis (Crossing Jordan), and Brett Cullen (The Replacements, Something to Talk About) and more than a dozen additional stars from television and movies.