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Article: Casa Colina fundraiser raises $175,000
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- Inland Valley Daily Bulletin
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- July 17, 2009
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Nolan Burchett leaned his tiny, 2-year-old body into the Southern
California Edison's miniature Sea Lab tank and laughed out loud with
lab staffer Dulce Miranda of Lynwood when co-worker Cynthia
Carmolinga of Long Beach placed a marine animal in his hands.
"Touch gently," softly warned Jessica Burchett, Nolan's mother
and Casa Colina Centers for Rehabilitation's human resources
manager.
Nolan's fascination with marine critters visiting the third
annual Walk and Roll for Casa's Kids family affair in Pomona
steadily escalated - until he saw 1-year-old Maggie Baribault.
"She's a baby," Nolan said about the youngest daughter of Emilie
and Paul Baribault of Pasadena, 2009 recipients of Casa ...