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Frankfort Holiday Toy Drive to Benefit Children with Cancer

Area residents and
businesses have an opportunity this holiday season to support children and
teens fighting cancer by donating a new toy or gift during the Pediatric
Oncology Treasure Chest Foundation (POTCF) annual Holiday Toy Drive.



 



The POTCF is 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 45 hospitals nationwide. Nowhere else in the nation does such a program
exist. CEO 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 20th
anniversary of remission from the disease earlier this year.

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Ms. Kisel emphasized the
importance of the Foundation’s efforts by saying, “The toys we collect during
this Holiday Toy Drive will enable us to continue providing smiles of joy to
more than 8,600 children and teens monthly who are battling cancer across the
nation.”

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Unwrapped, brand new toys or
gifts may be dropped off until December 20th at:



 



 



•Standard Bank, 19997 S. La
Grange Rd., Frankfort



 



 



 



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

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