*Media Alert*

WHAT: Community Honda in Orland Park is giving to children and teens fighting cancer. The dealership is hosting a barbeque on Saturday, May 12, 2018. For every new or used vehicle sold on May 12th, Community Honda of Orland Park will donate $100 to children and teens fighting cancer. New unwrapped toys, teen gifts and $5 gift card donations can be dropped-off any day during the month of May. 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 52 treatment centers nationwide.

WHO: There will be no cover charge for admission to the event. Adults and children welcome. Free barbeque.

WHEN: Saturday, May 12th, from noon to 2:00 p.m.

WHERE: Community Honda, 8340 W. 159th St. in Orland Park.

WHY: The POTCF is a unique organization whose services impact more than 13,000 young cancer patients enduring 20,000 clinic visits each month in 19 states across the nation. 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 25th 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 Orland Park Community Honda at 708.364.2600.