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Nintendo of America Dedicates a Starlight Fun Center to Miller Childrens Hospital Long Beach
WHAT: Nintendo and Starlight Children’s
Foundation™ will place a Starlight Fun Center™ mobile
entertainment unit, featuring a Wii™ video game system, DVD
player and a Sharp AQUOS™ LCD TV, in the Miller West pediatric
unit at Miller Children’s Hospital Long Beach.
The Fun Center dedication is part of a series of festivities
surrounding Nintendo’s launch of its Kirby’s Return to Dream
Land™ game for the Wii system on Oct. 24.
Earlier this month, Nintendo inspired kids across North America
to discover their inner superheroes with some help from the
iconic Kirby™ video game character. Kids who visited a website
created for Kirby’s Return to Dream Land were invited to create
drawings and descriptions of their dream Super Abilities. Their
imaginative creations were then submitted to Nintendo to be part
of a project to aid Starlight, raise awareness about the
organization and encourage children to help others. For added
inspiration, kids can also visit The Stacks website at
http://www.scholastic.com/nintendokirby/ and take a "What’s
Your Super Ability?" Quiz.
Nintendo will display several of these submissions during the
Fun Center dedication at Miller Children’s. Patients at the
hospital will also be invited to use coloring sheets to create
their own Super Abilities, which Nintendo will use to create a
mural for the hospital.
Kirby will also be on hand for the Fun Center dedication to
interact with young patients, play Fun Center games and
distribute special blankets.
Kirby will be joined by actress and Starlight Fairy Godmother
Jamie Lee Curtis, Executive Vice President of Nintendo America
Inc. Don James and representatives from Miller Children’s and
Starlight.
WHERE:
Miller Children’s Hospital Long Beach
2801 Atlantic Avenue
Long Beach, CA 90806
WHEN: Thursday, October 27, 2011; 2 p.m.
BACKGROUND: Since 1992, Nintendo and Starlight
have placed more than 7,000 Fun Centers in hospitals across
North America. The ease with which Fun Centers roll right up to
the side of young patients’ beds or anywhere in a hospital
setting makes them perfect for hospitalized children in numerous
situations: anticipating surgery, during long outpatient clinic
treatments, waiting in the emergency room or fighting loneliness
after visiting hours have ended. Fun Centers uniquely counter
the isolation and fear often experienced by sick children. The
Fun Center is a welcome guest, when other visitors aren’t
around!