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WHAT: The event will feature a friendly competition between local businesses offering wine for purchase. Hosted by The Rotary Club of Oak Forest, Holistic Happenings Healing Center in Tinley Park and Rago and Associates in New Lenox will hold its Second Annual Wine Pairing Contest to benefit the Pediatric Oncology Treasure Chest Foundation on Friday, September 26th, 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: $25.oo per person (21 or older only)

Attendees will be treated to wine, fine food from Polonia Catering, silent art auction, prizes, raffles and live music by Afterglow, a duo that has been performing in the Chicago area since 2007.

WHEN: Friday, September 26th, from 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.

WHERE: Orland Park Civic Center, 14750 Ravinia Ave., Orland Park

WHY: Last year the Wine Pairing Contest raised $450 for the 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 1996 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) or Tim Howe (708) 244-3906.