Eleventh Annual Tennis Fun Fest to Benefit the Pediatric Oncology Treasure Chest Foundation

WHAT: 11th Annual Tennis Fest

Crofton Kelly is laying down his racquet and passing along the job of implementing and coordinating the tennis fest to his sister Mattigan Kelly. Come out and support Mattigan Kelly during the 11th Annual Tennis Fest to benefit the Pediatric Oncology Treasure Chest Foundation.

WHO: Attendees will have a chance to meet some professional tennis players, play some tennis featuring round robin matches, fun-drills, raffles, refreshments and prizes.

WHEN: Saturday, August 13, from 12 noon to 2:00 p.m.

WHERE: Hinsdale Racquet Club, 5730 S. Grant Street in Hinsdale

WHY: For ten consecutive years, La Grange teenager Crofton Kelly has provided a generous helping hand to kids with cancer by organizing, implementing and coordinating a local tennis tournament designed to raise funds to benefit the Pediatric Oncology Treasure Chest Foundation. Crofton’s amazing efforts have netted more than $47,000 over the course of the fundraising event’s existence. The Pediatric Oncology Treasure Chest Foundation unique services impact more than 9,300 young cancer patients each month in 49 hospitals across 17 states. 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 23rd anniversary of remission from the disease earlier this year.

CONTACT: If you would like further information about the Treasure Chest Foundation, please contact Colleen Kisel at 708-687-TOYS (8697) potcf@sbcglobal.net or for reservations contact Mattigan at 708-310-5335 or mattigankelly@gmail.com