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Third Annual President's Cup Golf Outing to Benefit the Pediatric Oncology Treasure Chest Foundation

WHAT:The Mokena Community Park Foundation will hold its Third Annual President's Cup Golf Outing to benefit the Pediatric Oncology Treasure Chest Foundation on Friday, August 1, 2014. The Treasure Chest Foundation is an Orland Park-based, non-profit organization that provides comfort and distraction from painful procedures to children and teens diagnosed with cancer by providing a toy or gift card in 48 hospitals nationwide.

WHO: Attendees will enjoy a fun filled 18-hole game of golf (with carts), lunch, a two hour open bar, dinner, prizes and raffles.

WHEN: Friday, August 1, 2014. Check-in 10:30 a.m. with 11:30 a.m. Scramble Shot Gun start, 4:30 p,m. dinner, 2 hour open bar, prizes and raffles. Fees for the Golf Outing are $130 per person or $520 per foursome which includes golf, carts, lunch and dinner. Dinner only-$50 per person. The registration deadline is Monday July 28, 2014.

WHERE: Odyssey Country Club, 19110 S. Ridgeland Avenue, Tinley Park

WHY: Last year the President's Cup Golf Outing raised $8,000 for the Treasure Chest Foundation. During the past two years the Golf Outing has brought more than $14,500 to the Pediatric Oncology Treasure Chest Foundation. The Pediatric Oncology Treasure Chest Foundation unique services impact more than 9,000 young cancer patients each month in 48 hospitals across 17 states and the District of Columbia. Nowhere else in the nation does such a program exist. Colleen Kisel founded the organization in 1997 after her then seven-year-old son Martin had been diagnosed with leukemia in 1993. She discovered that giving her son a toy after each procedure provided a calming distraction from his pain and his new world filled with doctors, nurses, chemotherapy drugs, surgeries and seemingly endless painful procedures. Martin celebrated his 21st anniversary of remission from the disease earlier this year.

CONTACT: If you would like further information about the Treasure Chest Foundation or the event, please contact Colleen Kisel at 708-687-TOYS (8697), www.treasurechest.org or Jim Romanek at 708-390-2401

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