Goodgion’s kind gesture

Once again, Kent travel agent Sally Goodgion has given back to those less fortunate in her community. This time it was to Kathy Pedrini, a Kent resident who received two tickets for a paid vacation to the Seattle Mariners' spring training camp in Arizona from March 12-19.

Once again, Kent travel agent Sally Goodgion has given back to those less fortunate in her community. This time it was to Kathy Pedrini, a Kent resident who received two tickets for a paid vacation to the Seattle Mariners’ spring training camp in Arizona from March 12-19.

Goodgion acquired the tickets through her yearly auction of assorted Mariners memorabilia she holds to raise money to take someone without the economic ability to do so. The package Goodgion raised to send Pedrini and her mother cost $3,000.

Pedrini could barely contain her enthusiasm when she found out that she was going on the trip. She gave almost everyone in the room a hug and started planning what she would need to bring to Arizona. Item one: her new sandals.

“It felt good, great,” she said. “I love it.”

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The first players she wants to meet, if she gets the chance, will be the Mariners’ pitchers and catchers.

“I hope they let me throw the ball,” she said with a smile.

Goodgion heard about Pedrini through Oriana Pon, a member of the Kiwanis Club. Pedrini had recently given a presentation about her work at Blanc n’ Schwartz Salon and Safeco Field — she sweeps and helps clean both sites — at the Kiwanis Club of Kent. When Pon heard that Goodgion was looking for someone to give the tickets to, “I immediately thought of Kathy,” she said.

Tickets and packages to Mariners spring training can be extremely expensive and cost prohibitive to most people, running between $1,000 to $1,500.


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