WHAT: Durbins in Evergreen Park is giving to children and teens fighting cancer. The bar is sponsoring its Sixth Annual Durbins Cares for Kids with Cancer Benefit on Saturday, October 15, 2016. All proceeds will benefit the Orland Park-based Pediatric Oncology Treasure Chest Foundation (POTCF), a non-profit organization that provides comfort and distraction from painful procedures to children and teens diagnosed with cancer by providing a toy, gift or gift card in 49 treatment centers nationwide.
WHO: There will be no cover charge for admission to the event. Adults and children welcome. Highlights will include free food, exciting raffles, a special split-the-pot drawing and entertainment compliments of Acoustically Skewed.
WHEN: Saturday, October 15, from 3:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.
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WHERE: Durbins Pizza, 10240 S. Kedzie Avenue in Evergreen Park.
WHY: Last year the Durbins Cares for Kids with Cancer raised more than $4,300 for the Treasure Chest Foundation. During the past five years the Durbins Cares Benefit has brought more than $17,900 to the Pediatric Oncology Treasure Chest Foundation. 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.
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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 Durbins Pizza at 708-499-0022.
