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Kids Who Care gives families an opportunity to celebrate the
beautiful children in their lives and support AAMC’s vision
of providing comprehensive 24/7 care to children in our
community. Your child can be recognized on an icon on this
special wall outside the AAMC Pediatrics Department. Is your
child a sh, a sailboat or a bird?
When you donate to the AAMC’s Pediatric Emergency
Department Kids Who Care wall of honor, your child becomes
part of a legacy for future generations, and your gift has an
immediate and substantial impact on the care of thousands of
our youngest patients and their families.
Celebrate your child—
and help care for others
Young philanthropists—
Kids Who Care
Henry David oreau wrote, “Goodness is the only investment that never fails.” Here are a
few examples of the incredible work being done in our community by tomorrow’s leaders.
Jake Lilly (14) and P.J. Dettor (15) have watched their parents organize and participate
in the annual Fish 4 A Cure shing tournament that has bene ted the DeCesaris Cancer
Institute for years. ey rallied a group of Severn School
students to honor a young friend who had died from cancer.
eir team raised $3,200 to support cancer programs at AAMC.
High school student Kendall Peret wanted to take action
when her mother was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2013.
“Fundraising with ribbon lollipops was a di erent way to bring
awareness to breast cancer and hopefully inspire others that
every donation can help with treatment and research,” says
Kendall. “It gave me a chance to give back to the Breast Center
to help take care of others.”
Le to right: Sannie Gargano, P.J.
Dettor, Brian Hiltabidle, Dylan
Gergar, and Jake Lilly. Captain Ed
Darwin is not pictured.
For more information, contact Heather Matheu
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hmatheu@AAHS.org .From le : Cathy Copertino, Executive Director, DeCesaris
Cancer Institute; Robert Buras, MD, FACS; Brian Wuest,
Vice President, Thompson Creek Window Company; Rick
Wuest, President and CEO, Thompson Creek Window
Company; and Jan Wood, President, AAMC Foundation.
ompson Creek Window Company held its annual Going Pink
fundraiser for breast cancer in October. roughout the month they
donated $5 for every window purchased, had lunches, sold pink
wristbands, and had pink ompson Creek-branded shirts for each
employee, raising $11,000 for the AAMC Breast Center.
“We chose the AAMC Breast Center because it is important to
us that all women have access to care and treatment, and we were
particularly pleased to learn that AAMC provides nancial assistance
to those who are struggling to make ends meet while undergoing
treatment,” says Rick Wuest, President and CEO, ompson Creek
Window Company.
Le to right: Kendall Peret
and her mother, cancer
survivor Ti n Bumpass
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