Kids with Cancer Get Winter Wonderland from Building Trades Union Members

[Omaha Steve]

http://blog.aflcio.org/2009/12/25/kids-with-cancer-get-winter-wonderland-from-building-trades-union-members/

by Mike Hall, Dec 25, 2009

The children at Boston’s Dana-Farber Cancer Institute’s Jimmy Fund Clinic are enjoying a jollier holiday celebration than usual, thanks in part to the more than $27,000 union construction and trades workers collected for the institute’s annual Winter Wonderland.

The donation helped deck out the more than weeklong Wonderland for children being treated for cancer and included visits from Santa, gifts, arts and crafts and holiday meals.


Patients at Dana-Ferber enjoy a Christmas visitor.


The workers are building a 14-story, 275,000 square foot, state-of-the-art outpatient clinic and research center next to the Jimmy Fund Clinic. The Yawkey Center for Cancer Care is set to open its doors in early 2011.

This fall, Mike Morgan, with Plumbers and Pipe Fitters (UA) Local 537, posted a flier on the job site asking the workers to donate an hour of their salary to the kids at the clinic. The money started rolling in, and the donations are continuing, says Morgan.

It was amazing how much money we raised, when we presented the check they expected about $500, but we raised more than $27,000 and the money keeps pouring in. We are so happy to be able to help in any way and it is just a small way to help these children.

FULL story at link.

[Triana]

1. Now THAT'S what I'm talkin about! K & R

And it was done by some good-hearted working folk and not a bunch of gilded rich people, of course. (the rich mostly want to keep their money for themselves - not all of them, but most of them do. Pfft!)