This coming weekend on August 9-10, the Linn-Benton Hispanic Advisory Committee and the Benton County Health Services will host the third annual Benton County Soccer Tournament and Family Weekend. The community event is an innovative large scale outreach effort to promote healthy living and increase awareness about important local health services available to the local community. The entire event will take place at Willamette Park in Corvallis.

You can view the tournament schedule here.

Each year roughly five hundred people have attended. The event is consistently growing. Eight teams participated the first year in 2006, last year ten teams competed. Roughly five hundred visitors attended the event. This year twelve teams from Corvallis, Albany, Eugene, Salem and Hillsboro will take part in the largest adult soccer tournament in Corvallis. Those teams include:

Deportivo Eugene
Casayos
Crown Royals
Strega United
Resurreccion
Deportivo Albany
Senoras Enojadas
Monarcas
Santa Teresa
Hillsboro
Cometa
Las Zarquillas

The Mid-Valley Lions Club will provide free health screenings in their mobile screening unit. Other event sponsors include:

Region X office of Minority Health
Cedar Surgical Associates
Community Alliance for Diversity
El Sol de Mexico
LAX 660 AM Radio
Great Harvest
OSU Latino Health Project
Panaderia Pilos
Qdoba Mexican Grill
Sancho's Mexican Grill
Sonido Genesis
Taqueria La Rockita

Antonio Torres, Daniel Lopez-Cevallos, Elias Arredondo and Scott Clark have contributed significantly to help organize the event. Everyone is encouraged to take advantage of the available health services and information and enjoy some local soccer.