(KINGSTON, RI- February 8, 2010)- This past Saturday, Global Spectrum and University of Rhode Island employees at The Ryan Center participated in a fundraiser for the American Heart Association's (AHA) National Wear Red Day. Employees who donated $5 wore red and “dressed down” during the URI Men's Basketball to support the AHA. The staff at The Ryan Center raised an incredible $775, exceeding their initial goal of $250!

National Wear Red Day honors the lives lost to the millions of Americans who suffer from heart disease and hit close to home in October 2009 when David LaProva, former Operations Coordinator at The Ryan Center, passed away from a heart attack. LaProva was an invaluable asset to the Global Spectrum team at The Ryan Center for seven years before his unexpected death.

LaProva was one of the sixty-eight million Americans who undergo some form of heart disease. Each year, over one million Americans have a heart attack and almost one million Americans die each year from cardiovascular related illnesses. This figure accounts for forty-one percent of all deaths in the United States each year.

For more information on how to help fight against heart disease, please visit www.americanheart.org.

Global Spectrum (global-spectrum.com) is the fastest growing firm in the public assembly facility management field with more than 85 facilities throughout the United States and Canada. The Philadelphia-based company is part of one of the world's largest sports and entertainment companies, Comcast-Spectacor, which also owns the Philadelphia Flyers of the National Hockey League, the Philadelphia 76ers of the National Basketball Association, Flyers Skate Zone, a series of community ice skating rinks, Comcast SportsNet Philadelphia, a regional sports programming network, Ovations Food Services, a food and beverage services provider, New Era Tickets, a full-service ticketing and marketing product for public assembly facilities, and Front Row Marketing Services, a commercial rights sales company and 3601 Creative Group, a full-service in-house advertising agency. In a partnership with Disson Skating, Comcast-Spectacor annually produces 10 nationally televised figure skating spectaculars on NBC.

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CONTACT:    Diana Zanetto   
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