As online donations have been finalized as well as checks go on to pour in, we can proudly announce which a readers of Point Blanklast weekdonated some-more than $25,000 to Pat LaFontaines Companions in Courage Foundation. By any measure, this is an unusual action of munificence by hockey fans for a really good cause.
As a result ofblowing awayall of a initial goals, three a single some-more area hospitals will benefit. Besides a settled benefactors Nassau University Medical Center as well as Winthrop University Hospital, mobile XBox kiosks will also be brought to childrens bedsides during Stony Brook University, St. Marys as well as Huntington hospitals.
This is as extraordinary as anything Ive been a partial of, as well as we goal we feel a same way. Every reader who participated should take a bow. Before we get to a final list of 222 donors (not counting the40 who contributed anonymously), Id similar to to share a minute we received today from CiC executive Jim Johnson.
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Dear Point Blank readers,
Wed similar to to magnify a robust appreciate we to PB readers upon behalf of all a young kids in hospitals who good from Pat LaFontaines Companions in Courage Foundation (www.CiC16.org). Your munificence helped Pat lift $25,000 - which will be used essentially to yield mobile XBox kiosks to a bedsides of young kids upon Long Island. Children during Nassau University Medical Center, Winthrop University Hospital, Stony Brook University Hospital, St. Marys Hospital as well as Huntington Hospital will be a primary beneficiaries.
Congratulations to PB reader Phil Gusman of Tuxedo, NY. By donating some-more than $50 in this campaign he was a single of hundreds of readers eligible to win 4 tickets for a finish line grandstand during a 2009 ING NYC Marathon.
These XBox units have been installed with video games as well as cinema as well as can be continuous to a secure XBox Live village which is usually permitted by young kids in alternative hospitals opposite North America. More than 300 of these units have been delivered to patients bedsides as well as it ensures which a kid will never be alone during a sanatorium stay. The distraction of playing games with young kids online is an experience which aids in a healing process as well as allows a sick kid hit with a outward world.
Pat LaFontaine was battling a serious hitch of tendinitis in his reconstructed knee heading up to a marathon. The damage significantly limited his training regimen. He was usually means to run some-more than 5 miles twice in credentials for a marathon.Pat said, The munificence of PB readers served as a major inducement for me to finish this race. As we headed up into Harlem we really needed to pull upon a strength we gave me with your donations. And we suspicion about all those special young kids who would good from a XBox kiosks, as well as which kept me going.
During a new sanatorium revisit Pat met Connor (pictured above), a teenage kid starting by a tough time as he rebuilt for surgery. Every 7 or 8 mins Connor would push a Pain symbol upon his IV season to recover some-more hypnotic into his line. An XBox kiosk was wheeled to his side as well as he started shouting as well as playing a game. Ten mins passed, afterwards twenty as well as 30 With tears in her eyes his mom said, Its been 45 mins as well as he hasnt overwhelmed a suffering symbol once. This is a best partial of my day knowing which a distraction of a video diversion has caused a suffering to be eased.
The munificence of PB readers guarantees which scenarios similar to which will be played out in hospitals in a area for years to come. If youve ever been by an experience where your kid or loved a single has had to outlay an lengthened time in a hospital, we know how scary which can be. To know which your kid can have even a small bit of normalcy during a stressful time similar to which means a universe to each parent.
On behalf of all of us during CiC Foundation, appreciate we so most to Chris Botta as well as a constant readers of PB.
Regards,
Jim Johnson
Executive Director
Companions in Courage Foundation
www.CiC16.org
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The Donors
Thank you, appreciate you, appreciate we to EVERYONE
Adler, Mark
Andrew, Sean
Arkin, Josh
Aurigemma, Daniel
Avaltroni, Rob
Ayoub, Chad
Baiser, Dennis
Barbieri, John
Baum, Benjamin
Bedell, Michael
Bier, Rebecca
Birkenfeld, Glenn
Blake, Ken
Bockstein, Andrew
Botta, Jane
Brackenridge, Craig
Brady, David
Bravo, Jose
Brophy, John
Brown, Will
Bruce, Richard
Butler, Nancy
Byrnes, Kristie
Canevari, Ernest
Caporuscio, Kathryn
Caprio, Andrew
Carey, Brian
Carey, Joseph
Carey, Michael
Carlberg, Donald
Cavanagh,Jim
Chacko, Matthew
Chaffer, Eric
Chereskin, Richard
Clark, Jim
Cibelli, Garret
Cimons, Wayne
Cohen, Steven
Conte, Joseph
Corsarie, Robert
Cosimano, Patrick
Criscitelli, Michael
Criscuolo, Eric
Curley, Gregory
Cusack, Timothy
Cuthbert, Sean
DePierro, Jason
Desiderio, Joseph
DiDonna, Dominic
Dixon, Ann Marie
Doyle, Sean
Dugan, Jason
Dulberg, Bill
Dunbar, Michael
Efstathiou, Bob
Epstein, Gary
Ereshena, Barbara
Faust, Frederick
Federmann, Joshua
Fishbach, Raphael
Filiberto, Christian
Fleming, Ron
Franco, Patrick
Frazee, Brian
Froessel, Timothy
Frumento, Michael
Gallof, Brian
Gelman, Jonathan
Gimbel, Cory
Goerke, Robert
Goldberg, Mitchell
Gormley, Shannon
Greenberg, Adam
Greer, Richard
Gressler, Brian
Grzancic, Christian
Gurtman, Scott
Gusman, Philip
Guzzo, John
Hanrahan, Michael
Hasnas, Dan
Heberer, William
Heiser, John
Hemley, Robert
Henderson, Gary
Herbst, Brandon
Herms, Robert
Hesse, Richard
Hoenigmann, Ryan
Honig, William
Hornick, Eric
Holleran, Kevin
Isserlis, Michael
Jantz, Stephen
Jaycoff, Joshua
Jezykowski, Richard
Jordan, John-Michael
Kalontarov, Michael
Kantor, Benjamin
Kaplan, Joseph
Kasper, Thomas
Kicinski, Robert
Kirsch, Christopher
Krebs, Jeff
Krupa, Dan
Levy, Lawrence
Lieber, Marc
Litvinsky, David
Lorenzo, Daniel
Lotto, Bryan
Maginness, Ron
Mallon, Rob
Mancusi, Thomas
Manos, Jason
Manuszak, Ellen
Manzo, Steven
Marshall, Peter
Martinez, Paul
Mather, Brian
McBride, Kevin
McCarthy, Bill
McDonald, Andrew
McGlynn, Jim
Meehan, Thomas
Meinck, Christopher
Melnyk, Tedd
Miller, Michael
Monaco, Kevin
Monahan, James
Moore, Philip
Moore, Steven
Moran, Louis
Morrison, Gregory
Nass, Eric
Navaro, Ray
Nelson, George
Nolan, Robert
Okeefe, Brian
Ong, Aaron
Overmeyer, James
Palmieri, John
Palmieri, Jon
Pasquarosa, Joseph
Philippides, Nicholas
Pignataro, George
Plant, David
Powell, Jason
Prendergast, Carey
Priest, Mike
Primosch, Chris
Profit, Ricky
Ragone, Valentino
Raimondi, Michael
Rannin, Rob
Rappaport, Scott
Reba, Alan
Reiter, Dennis
Resnick, Nate
Rhein, Robert
Rice, William
Ring, Peter
Rizzo, Richard
Romanelli, John
Romano, Paul
Rosenbaum, Roy
Rosenblum, Daniel
Rudegeair, Thomas
Rusowicz, Ed
Russin, Adam
Ryan, James
Rylott, Paul
Sachs, Steven
Schlauch, Ed
Schlechter, Justin
Schmier, Steven
Schniebolk, Seth
Schultz, Kevin
Schwab, James
Schwartz, Brad
Schwarz, Mike
Scordato, Matthew
Scrobe, Stephen
Shainman, Andrew
Shapiro, Ted
Sherman, Brett
Sherwood, Bob
Sinacori, Joseph
Smith, Scott
Smith, Spencer
Smyth, Raymond
Speight, Jeff
Sposato, Daniel
Steffens, James
Style, Christopher
Tag, Don
Tang, Michael
Tavani, Richard
Tendrup, Ryan
Terrasi, Michael
Terrasi, Michael
Thaw, Brian
Timlin, Marty
Tracey, Patrick
Tricarico, Michael
Trofimov, Aleksandr
Turner, Elliot
Uchman, Gregory
Undersinger, Paul
Visconti, Vincent
Vollmer, Eric
Von Arx, Philip
Votinelli, Tom
Walters, Scott
Ward, Andrew
Weiner, Rick
Weinstein, Jeffrey
Weinstein, Rick
Weiss, Lane
Weiss, Michael
Wessinger, Adam
Wichern, Jason
Wojtusiak, Mark
Young, Patrick
Donations of each volume will go on to be supposed as well as severely appreciated. Donors can send checks to CiC Foundation, P.O. Box 768, Huntington, NY 11743 (ATT: PB). Ifyou have any alternative questions about donating to Companions in Courage, pleasesend an email to Jim Johnson atjjohnson@CiC16.org
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