Community Corner
Childhood Cancer Patients Treasure Sue and Ashley’s Artistic Skills
Childhood Cancer Patients Treasure Sue and Ashley's Artistic Skills
Not all Treasure Chests last a lifetime and some need to be refurbished. It is not uncommon to restore the Treasure Chests after years of use and that is what happened for the kids at Cleveland Clinic in Cleveland, Ohio and Bronson Clinic in Kalamazoo, Michigan.
Naperville resident Sue Stanley and Worth resident Ashley Krafthefer donated their impressive artistic skills to benefit the Treasure Chest Foundation. Sue Stanley reached out to the nurses at Bronson Clinic and Ashley Krafthefer reached out to the nurses at Cleveland Clinic and painted the new Treasure Chests to match that hospital’s existing theme and paint scheme. Both Sue and Ashley are relatives of longtime donor and volunteer Liz Pritchard.
“The Treasure Chest Foundation is especially grateful to Sue Stanley and Ashley Krafthefer for their tremendous donation of time, talent and artistic skill,” said POTCF CEO and Founder Colleen Kisel. “Because of their hard work and generosity, Cleveland Clinic and Bronson Clinic will soon receive one new, beautifully painted Treasure Chest.”
Find out what's happening in Napervillefor free with the latest updates from Patch.
The POTCF is a unique organization whose services impact more than 16,100 young cancer patients in 66 cancer treatment centers in 21 states across the nation and in the District of Columbia. Nowhere else in the nation does such a program exist. Colleen Kisel founded the organization in 1996 after her then seven-year-old son Martin had been diagnosed with leukemia in 1993. Ms. Kisel discovered that giving her son a toy after each procedure provided a calming distraction from his pain, noting that when children are diagnosed with cancer their world soon becomes filled with doctors, nurses, chemotherapy drugs, surgeries and seemingly endless painful procedures. Martin celebrated his 30th anniversary of remission from the disease in March of this year.
If you would like further information about the Treasure Chest Foundation, please contact Colleen Kisel at 1-708-687-TOYS (8697) or visit the Foundation’s website at www.treasurechest.org.
