Condors Top $3 million mark in cash, goods and services

Bakersfield Calif. - Only two months into the 2008-09 season, the Bakersfield Condors, ECHL affiliate of the Anaheim Ducks, have held three collection nights bringing in 7,614 stuffed animals, 1,300 coats, and 380 toys, a charity golf tournament that raised more than $10,000 and a jersey auction that brought in over $23,000. With those events, the Condors have now donated more than $3 million in cash, goods and services to deserving non-profit organizations and local school children during the team's 11-year history.

"We are in a unique position were we can combine family fun and entertainment with a greater sense of purpose and charity," said Condors President Matthew Riley. "That our organization, with our fans behind us, has now hit the 3 million dollars mark in donations to enhance the quality of life in our community and give to those in need is an amazing feat and a credit to this great community we live in."

The fur flew in record-breaking form:

It was a record-breaking Saturday for the Condors, as 8,929 fans, the second most in Condors history, packed The Nest for the 10th annual Teddy Bear Toss. When the Condors scored their first goal of the night, a flood of fur began raining onto the ice. It took more than 50 volunteers just 10 minutes to remove all the bears from the ice. Overall, Condors fans threw a record 7,614 bears onto the ice for local less-fortunate children. The United Way of Kern County distributed the bears to over two dozen organizations to find children for the bears to comfort.