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Orland Park Brass Tap Bar Hosts Event to Benefit Children
Orland Park Brass Tap Craft Beer Bar Owner Tom McMullen proudly presents his $1,005 donation while visiting the Treasure Chest Foundation.
The owner of the Brass Tap Craft Beer Bar in Orland Park hosted an “Anniversary Week Bottle Raffle” fundraiser for a worthy cause recently when they held a silent auction for rare beer and raffle baskets of craft beer designed to raise money for the Pediatric Oncology Treasure Chest Foundation (POTCF). After the event was over the Brass Tap Bar raised their glasses and donated $1,005 for children and teens fighting cancer.
The mission of the Brass Tap Craft Beer Bar in Orland Park is to create a premium beer experience for the world. Brass Tap Craft Beer Bar Owner Tom McMullen said, “We were looking to give back to the community and we wanted to keep the charity we donated to local. Kids are always in the front of my mind.”
POTCF Founder and CEO Colleen Kisel is especially grateful to the Brass Tap Craft Beer Bar Owner Tom McMullen and the customers for their efforts in raising such an impressive total. “Thanks to the success of the Brass Tap Bar’s creative fundraiser 2018 will be brighter and happier for thousands of brave children who benefit from our services throughout the nation,” said Ms. Kisel.
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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 24th anniversary of remission from the disease in March of 2017.
If you would like further information about the Treasure Chest Foundation, please contact Colleen Kisel at 708-687-TOYS (8697) or visit the Foundation’s web site at www.treasurechest.org.
