Bone Marrow Registry Drive for Kieran Holohan
Needed: Your Cheek and Your Check To Help Save Some Lives
Date: Saturday, January 23, 2010
Time: 4:00pm – 8:00pm
Location: Cornerstone Tavern, 961 2nd Ave (at 51st St) New York, NY Why: So Kieran can be at Riley’s wedding
Kieran Holohan, 42, is the loving father of 9 month old Riley, husband to Suzanne, Partner at Gonzalez Oberlander & Holohan LLP, Village Lions RFC Hall-of-Famer and friend to countless more. Kieran was diagnosed with Acute Myeloid Leukemia on December 9 2009. His Leukemia is temporarily in remission, but he will need a Bone Marrow Transplant in order to survive in the long term.
This event is an earnest request for you to support Kieran and thousands of other Leukemia sufferers who depend on the Bone Marrow Registry should they require a transplant. Please see the following note from Kieran to see how you can help both him and his family, and potentially thousands more people:
I need you checks and your cheeks. Cheeks to find a bone marrow match. Checks to help pay for the testing. We’re hosting a Bone Marrow Registry drive on Saturday January 23 at the Cornerstone Tavern – please attend, and lend your cheek and your checks to help save lives.
What you can do to help:
- Come to the Cornerstone Tavern Sat Jan 23 lend your support
- Join the Bone Marrow Registry (via a cheek scrape test)
- Donate funds to support the $100 it costs the registry to test the DNA
- Encourage as many people as you can to join us
Cornerstone Tavern has opened their doors wide to us. They have three bars over two floors and will provide Happy Hour Pricing and a full menu throughout the afternoon. We won’t be done at 8pm either – I am sure a few of us will keep the party going (and I may even buy you a drink)
Remember, this is to be an afternoon of fun with a little bit of giving.
Where: Cornerstone Tavern, 961 Second Avenue @ 51st Street. http://www.cornerstonetavern.com/
When: January 23 4pm-8pm (stay five minutes or five hours)
Why: So Kieran can be at Riley’s wedding
Who: Everyone we can find! Friends, friends of friends, absolutely anyone you can drag along.
2. Join the Bone Marrow Registry via a cheek scrape test
The easiest way is to attend our event in NYC at the Cornerstone hotel on Saturday January 23 from 4-8pm.
Thanks to “Be The Match” all each person will need to do is swab their cheek. “Be The Match” will be there to register everyone and collect the kits. 10 seconds to scrape your cheek and you’re a part of the registry!
If you can’t attend the event, you can order a kit and do it at home here: http://www.marrow.org/JOIN/Join_Now/join_now.html
3. Donate funs to support the $100 it costs to test the DNA for the Registry
It costs about $100 bucks for the test to be administered. We’re aiming to cover the costs for the charity of all those who lend their cheek at our drive. So if you can spare $100 (or more!) for charity please do, BUT your cheek is more important than your check. Therefore, if money is tight – just come on down.
All donations to “Be The Match are tax deductible and any contribution is most helpful.
If you can’t attend the event but would like to help from afar, please contribute money to help cover the testing costs. You can do so buy sending me money at my paypal account: holohan@gohllp.com
How to use PayPal: http://www.mahalo.com/how-to-use-paypal-basics-and-beyond
Or, give direct to ‘Be The Match’: http://marrow.convio.net/site/PageNavigator/Donation_home
4. Tell your friends – encourage as many people as you know to join!
First, we need the biggest crowd we can gather at the Cornerstone Tavern on Saturday Jan 23 from 4-8. I will be there to drink some beer and show cancer that it may have knocked me back but I am gonna knock it out.
Please send this Facebook Event to all of your friends!
Even if they’re not in NYC, see if they might be interested in joining the registry remotely here: http://www.marrow.org/JOIN/Join_Now/join_now.html
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