Girls Host Lemonade Stand to Benefit the Treasure Chest

The Cyscon girls and the Flood girls of Oak Forest are giving to children and teens fighting cancer. The girls sponsored a lemonade stand that raised $100 for the Pediatric Oncology Treasure Chest Foundation.

Young Alayna Flood said, “We decided to have a lemonade stand during our garage sale. We wanted to help kids with cancer.”

“The Treasure Chest Foundation is especially grateful to the Cyscon and Flood girls for their donation of $100. The girls worked hard to help support children and teens fighting cancer,” said Colleen Kisel, Founder and CEO of the Treasure Chest Foundation

The POTCF is a unique organization whose services impact more than 14,800 young cancer patients in 63 cancer treatment centers in 21 states across the nation and in the District of Columbia. 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 28th anniversary of remission from the disease in March of this year.

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 website at www.treasurechest.org.