KCMBA Lawyers for Children and Bishop Sullivan Center Help the Comets Soccer Players Kick-off their

Published on September 25, 2003 under Major Indoor Soccer League 2 (MISL 2)
Kansas City Comets News Release


On Wednesday, Oct. 1, the Kansas City Metropolitan Bar Association's Lawyers for Children Committee, several Comets Soccer Players and Bishop Sullivan Center will team together at St. Stephens Charter School to provide students in grades K-8 with an afternoon of fun. The event will also help kick off the Comets upcoming soccer season.

Area lawyers will start the afternoon off by reading to students. Each student will be given a book bag along with a brand new book, each donated by local attorneys and law firms. At 1:30 p.m. the Comets soccer players will arrive to take on teachers, along with 7th and 8th grade students in a volleyball match.

Each year, the Kansas City Metropolitan Bar Association's Lawyers for Children Committee seeks ways in which to help underprivileged, neglected and abused children of the Kansas City Metropolitan area. In years past, the committee has adopted families at Christmas time and last year the committee organized a project of seeking donations throughout the legal community of hard-to-get items for domestic violence shelters.

This year, committee chairman, J. Scott Bertram, opted to take on several smaller projects. This summer, the committee held a BBQ for children in the Boys and Girls Club of Kansas City, along with preschoolers at a nearby daycare center in the neighborhood of 39th & Troost. The committee is planning to distribute 700 bike helmets to area children this Fall. The committee also offers a Reader/Writer Program in which lawyers are pen-pals with students to help develop good reading and writing skills.

The Kansas City Metropolitan Bar Association serves approximately 5,000 members in the nine-county Kansas City metro area: Johnson and Wyandotte counties in Kansas and Cass, Clay, Jackson, Johnson, Lafayette, Platte and Ray counties in Missouri. The KCMBA's purpose is to promote the legal education of its members, the profession and the public by promoting legal science; by promoting the efficient administration of justice; by maintaining the highest standard of integrity, honor and courtesy in the legal profession; by exerting an influence for community improvement; and by cultivating fellowship among its members.

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