Twelfth Annual Tennis Fun Fest to Benefit the Pediatric Oncology Treasure Chest Foundation

WHAT: Twelfth Annual Tennis Fun Fest

WHO: Attendees will have a chance to meet some professional tennis players, play some tennis featuring round robin matches, fun-drills, raffles, refreshments and prizes. Crofton recently laid down his racquet and passed the job of coordinating the upcoming 12th Annual Tennis Fest to his sister Mattigan.

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

WHERE: Hinsdale Racquet Club, 5730 S. Grant Street in Hinsdale

WHY: For more than a decade, La Grange teenager Crofton Kelly has provided a generous helping hand to kids with cancer by organizing, implementing and coordinating a local tennis tournament to benefit the Pediatric Oncology Treasure Chest Foundation. The Kelly family’s amazing efforts have netted more than $53,250. The Pediatric Oncology Treasure Chest Foundation unique services impact more than 12,500 young cancer patients each month in 51cancer treatment centers across 18 states. 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 24th anniversary of remission from the disease earlier this year.

CONTACT: If you would like further information about the Treasure Chest Foundation, please contact Colleen Kisel at 708-687-TOYS (8697) potcf@sbcglobal.net or for reservations contact Mattigan at 708-310-5335 or mattigankelly@gmail.com