News Press and Wizards Offering Free Tickets for Charitable Donations

The Washington Wizards professional basketball team, working through Nicholas Benton of the Falls Church News-Press, has offered up to 200 free tickets to its Jan. 4 game against the New York Nets at the MCI Center for contributors to the Friends of the Falls Church Emergency Homeless Shelter and the Falls Church Housing Corporation.

All persons donating $20 or more to either organization can receive a certificate qualifying them for a free ticket (and additional lower level tickets for $25 each).

Certificates, which must be filled out and mailed in to the Wizards with a $5 service charge, are available in exchange for contributions to either organization at the News-Press office, 929 W. Broad Street, or at Stacy's Coffee Parlor, 709 W. Broad St.. The Wizards announced there is limited availability, and that persons should act while supplies last. Game time on Jan. 4 is 7 p.m. For those who wish join it, a Falls Church delegation of participants will assemble on the East Falls Church Metro platform at 6:15 p.m. that night for a “photo op” and a ride on the Metro Orange Line to the MCI Center. For further information, call the News-Press at (703) 532-3267.