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  • Emily Nokes

As you may by now be aware,fans of Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, Pearl Jam, and Slog are raising money for YouthCare’s Orion Center, and Seattlish and Seahawks fans have gotten in on it too! We've got a goal of $100,000 to provide our city's homeless youth with a safe place to sleep every night of the week—these kids need all the help we can possible give.

And LOOK! We're getting SO CLOSE to our goal!

TOTALS SO FAR BROKEN OUT BY FANS:

• Pearl Jam fans: $ 37,404.27
• Macklemore & Ryan Lewis fans: $34,863.14
• Slog fans: $9,903.35
• Seattlish fans: $ 2,231.00
• Seahawks: $865.00

TOTAL $$$ RAISED SO FAR FOR THE ORION CENTER: $85,266.76

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And look who wrote in wanting to help today—the awesome ladies of the Rat City Rollergirls!

Your campaign to save the James W. Ray Orion Center hits very close to our hearts. Growing up, some of our Rat City Rollergirls took advantage of programs and services similar to those offered at Orion Center that helped them get to where they are today. As grown-ups, some of our athletes work as social workers and counselors to young adults, including at the Orion Center.

We would like to think, to some degree, that if the LGBTQ community in Seattle was divided up into high-school cliques, we would be the pierced art-school softball team. The ones you want on your team. And given that, if we were in an '80s snow patrol movie, we would be pulling up right now on our Polaris Arctic Cats to spray some snow in the face of this sausage-fest showdown, because, after all, where are the girls in this fight?

They're right here, damnit! Donate TODAY and you could win 10 tickets to the Rat City Rollergirls 10th Anniversary Season Opener bout on January 18th at KeyArena, plus a $100 gift certificate to Tutta Bella! ROLLER-PIZZA PARTY, PEOPLE! Just donate by 5 p.m. today, then forward your receipt and tell us in 100 words or less why you think roller derby is bad-ass. The best reason wins! The winner will be announced tomorrow on Slog! Donate to the Orion Center right now!

• Pearl Jam fans: GO HERE TO GIVE!
• Macklemore & Ryan Lewis fans: GO HERE TO GIVE!
• Slog fans: GO HERE TO GIVE!
• RAT CITY ROLLERGIRLS/Seattlish/Seahawks fans: GO HERE TO GIVE and make a note who want your donation counted under!

The fans who raise the most for the Orion Center by December 24th WIN the title of the Best Fans of the Best Band or Best Blog in the Universe Forever!