Mark Harmon Celebrity Weekend This Weekend

OKLAHOMA CITY -- It's back for a ninth year, The Stars & Strikes Mark Harmon Celebrity Weekend. Its two days of bowling, baseball and fundraising.

After helping raise $2 million for the Children's Center in Bethany Harmon is now reaching out to help two other worthy groups in Oklahoma City.

The calls went out to Tamara Gilkey with the Ronald McDonald House and Robyn Sunday-Allen with the Oklahoma City Indian Clinic just months ago. But they're both hoping this weekend's visit by actor Mark Harmon and friends will pay huge dividends for families for some time to come.

Families like the Estradas. Dad George is stationed at Ft. Sill and their 2-week-old baby Aileen is still in NICU at OU's Children's Hospital. And these Lawton residents have called Oklahoma City's Ronald McDonald House, home for more than a week now.

"So, being here and not having to worry about money, have and don't have, a big weight off our shoulders," Ronald McDonald House resident George Estrada said.

And it's been a blessing for their 3-year-old son Ivan who, after spending all day at the hospital, isn't stuck in a hotel each night.

"He's really good for us up there, so when he comes here it's his turn to unwind, be a 3-year-old and let loose," Estrada said.

The Estradas have also been able to wait out Aileen's recovery at the brand new Ronald McDonald Family Room inside Children's Hospital, which also offers limited overnight stay opportunities.

"We almost every night have a waiting list, so we know there is a great need for more places for families to stay," Tamara Gilkey with the Ronald McDonald House said.

And more than 15,000 Native Americans have made it clear they have a great need for the Oklahoma City Indian Clinic.

"We already remind people if something ever happened to the Oklahoma City Indian Clinic it wouldn't be good for the Oklahoma City community because no other organization can absorb 15,000 people," Robyn Sunday-Allen with the Oklahoma City Indian Clinic said.

It's a place Sunday-Allen says the patients, doctors and nurses treat each other like family. It is a feeling the Estradas have also discovered from inside their temporary home.

"You can't say replacement because nothing can replace your family, but it anything comes close it's this place," Estrada said. "Everyone here treats you like family."

If you want to meet Mark Harmon, movie producer Frank Marshall, Hall of Fame pitcher Rick Sutcliffe and others come down Friday night at 7 p.m. to the AMF Boulevard Lanes in Edmond.

Or you can head to The Bricktown Ballpark on Saturday. First pitch between Harmon's Bombers and the OSSO Outlaws is at 3 p.m. Tickets to that game also get you into the RedHawks game later that night.