Treasure Chest Foundation Receives New Toys from Maxfield’s

The customers at Maxfield’s Family Restaurant in Lombard are giving to children and teens fighting cancer. Maxfield’s Restaurant customers recently collected more than $800 in toys and $50 in gift cards to benefit the Pediatric Oncology Treasure Chest Foundation (POTCF).

Maxfield’s Restaurant is Lombard’s staple family restaurant. Since opening in 2002, Maxfield’s has been the place where the community of Lombard has been starting their day. Maxfield’s Restaurant has an extensive menu and is known for their famous oven baked pancakes and quality service.

Maxfield’s Toy Drive Chairwoman Jan Patocka said, “We’ve been sponsoring the giving tree at Maxfield’s restaurant for eight years now and the gifts are always diversified for children of all ages who are fighting cancer.” Ms. Kisel, Founder of the Treasure Chest Foundation added, “The POTCF is especially grateful to Maxfield’s Restaurant and their generous customers for their enormous donation of toys and gift cards. We are blessed to have the support of the Maxfield’s Family Restaurant.”

The POTCF is a unique organization whose services impact more than 13,300 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 in March of 2018.

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.

Photo caption (pictured l-r): Maxfield’s Restaurant patron Daryl Kaspar and Toy Drive Chairwoman Jan Patocka display some of the toys donated at the Treasure Chest Foundation’s Orland Park warehouse.