04/28/17 - Park Ridge - Advocate Children's Hospital Visit

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PirateYeti
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04/28/17 - Park Ridge - Advocate Children's Hospital Visit

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Event: Visit to Child Life unit of Advocate Children's Hospital
Venue: Advocate Children's Hospital, 1675 Dempster Street, Park Ridge, Illinois 60068
Date: Friday, April 28, 2017
Event Start: 10:30am (Arrive by 10:00am for suit up)
Event End: 12:30pm
Donation/Money Raised: No donations received for this particular event. This was a family oriented event, geared towards children.

Saturday Total hours trooped: 2.5
Troopers involved: 4
Chris Robinson (PirateYeti/TamKeary) TI-31276 / Jedi
Jeff Lee (Lucky) TK-13132 / HWT
Katie Nowik (Tkay-Tee) TK-43033
Valerie Meachum (WiliQueen) Rebel Legion / Rey

Comments:
Eugene had something urgent come up so I tried to ec, with the help of everyone involved, the event, so forgive the poor reporting here. (Woo, first time!) Eugene did meet us at Advocate to hand off a bag o goodie for the kids, and introduced us to the Child Life Team. We met with Kayla after we reached the pediatric ward and was given two rooms to get our kits on. We got to meet quite a few of the patients, one little one was especially "concerned" about Jeff as she kept giving him that "you might need some help" look. The staff, parents and kids took many pictures with us and a good time was had by all. Katie, Valerie and Jeff did a great job entertaining the kids and Valerie was very honored to be mistaken as General Leia, and Katie had the TK Shuffle down pat. The gifts Eugene dropped off for us with coloring books, trading cards, puzzles and temporary tattoos were happily received by the kids. As an added bonus, Jeff's awesome wife had made several blankets for the kids that were handed out and throughly enjoyed by those who received them!

For those (all four of us) who had not trooped at Advocate before were given a great patch to remember the experience with. Over all, it was a great troop, and we had a great time with the kids and staff.

PS: Photos were not allowed by us of the event, but the staff took some and those useable by our PR staff are located here: https://www.facebook.com/AdvocateChildr ... nref=story
Chris
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Re: 04/28/17 - Park Ridge - Advocate Children's Hospital Vis

Post by Runnin'6712 »

ToD updated. Great job for the kids! :thumbs:

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