Community Corner
Fourth Annual President's Cup Golf Outing to Benefit the Pediatric Oncology Treasure Chest Foundation
Jim Romanek (left) along with Committee member Dennis Bagdon. Dennis sponsored a hole in 2014 memory of his daughter Megan.
WHAT: The Mokena Community Park Foundation will hold its Fourth Annual President’s Cup Golf Outing to benefit the Pediatric Oncology Treasure Chest Foundation on Monday, July 13, 2015. 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 49 hospitals nationwide.
WHO: Attendees will have a chance at the driving range, play a round of golf (with carts), lunch, a two hour open bar (beginning at 4:30 p.m.), dinner, prizes and raffles. Ladies, men’s and skin divisions. Mulligans will be available for purchase. There will be prizes for closest to the pin, longest drive and more. Check-in is 10:30 a.m., driving range will be open. Scramble shotgun start at 11:30 p.m.
Golf, carts, lunch and dinner is $520.00 per foursome. A full day of golf including dinner is $130.00 per person. Dinner only is $50.00 per person. Registration deadline is Monday, July 6, 2015. There are no refunds.
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WHEN: Monday, July 13, from 10:30 a.m. to 7:30 p.m.
WHERE: Odyssey Country Club, 19110 S. Ridgeland Avenue, Tinley Park
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WHY: Last year the President’s Cup Golf Outing raised $10,000 for the Treasure Chest Foundation. During the past three years the Golf Outing has brought more than $24,500 to the Pediatric Oncology Treasure Chest Foundation. The Pediatric Oncology Treasure Chest Foundation unique services impact more than 9,300 young cancer patients each month in 49 hospitals across 16 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 22nd 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 Jim Romanek at 708-390-2410 or www.mokenapark.com
