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by Kate Cigoi Sawa
Director of Community Relations,
Children’s Dream Fund
On Tuesday, May 15 at 4:30 p.m. at Cold
Stone Creamery, 100 Main St., Safety Harbor, 16-year-old Madison
Honig of Safety Harbor received her dream come true when she found
out she was going to Hawaii.
The Children’s Dream Fund arranged
this exciting dream for Madison, who picked her dream over a year
ago but wanted to wait to go to Hawaii until her hair grew back
after losing it from chemotherapy.
She was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s
lymphoma in February 2006 and is being treated at All
Children’s Hospital.
Madison and her family met staff from the
Children’s Dream Fund at the Cold Stone Creamery to receive
her dream and learn about her trip. There was a celebration of life
party for Madison as she was presented her dream.
Madison’s dream was funded by
proceeds raised during the Grand Opening of the Safety Harbor Cold
Stone Creamery earlier this year and from a Tampa Fashion Show
hosted by Ron and Kit Stewart. The Honig Family left for Hawaii on
Friday, May 25 and received a lei greeting at the airport in Maui.
They stayed at the Hyatt Regency Maui Resort and Spa in the city of
Lahaina.
While in Hawaii, Madison and her family
were to go zip lining through a forest and end up at the famous
Haleakala Crater, attend an Old Lahaina Luau, go parasailing and
take a champagne sunset sail on a catamaran.
Kristin Bedinghaus, dream coordinator for
the Children’s Dream Fund, described the program.
“A dream gives the child a
much-needed break from the routine of their medical attention and
allows them a time to laugh and smile, the best medicine of
all,” Bedinghaus said.
The Children’s Dream Fund is a St.
Petersburg-based non-profit organization that has been fulfilling
dreams for children with life threatening illnesses in West Central
Florida since 1981.
For more information contact Bedinghaus at
727-896-6390 or visit www.childrensdreamfund.org.
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