Stay tuned for our first annual cornhole tournament – TOSS FOR A CURE! Registration for this 2 Division Event will open soon. Come play cornhole and have a fantastic time supporting The High-Risk Leukemia Fund at Seattle Children’s Hospital!
CLIMB FOR A CURE will be held on July 24, 2024 at Rattlesnake Lake Recreation Area, near North Bend, WA. We will hike up Rattlesnake Ledge to celebrate our community, supporters, the patients/families and staff of the High-Risk Leukemia Program. This connects our early efforts with today’s foundation. Details soon.
The 3rd annual SWING for a CURE, on August 26, 2023 at Avalon Golf Links, was incredible! With this golf tournament, we have raised over $60,000 for Seattle Children’s Hospital’s High-Risk Leukemia Program Fund this year! We had 132 golfers and 45 volunteers. Sponsors, donors, and golfers made the day a successful event!
In the summer of 2021, following his relapse, Tom was joined by several fellow educators in brainstorming a golf tournament to raise more money for the High-Risk Leukemia Program (HRL) at Children’s Hospital in Seattle. This included, Don Barbacovi, retired former Principal at Everett High School, who lost his eight-year-old granddaughter to cancer in 2020 after a five-year struggle. After only three months of intensive planning and preparation, Swing for a Cure staged a fundraising tournament in October at Legion Memorial Golf Course in Everett. The event drew local sponsors, donors, and volunteers. With a field of golfers, joined by Dr. Todd Cooper, the head of HRL, and Erika Kreger, Director of Development for Seattle Childrens Foundation, it proved to be a rousing success. (View slide show on the left)
Our first For a Cure NW event was a climb up Sauk Mountain in Washington State. Over 50 climbers celebrated Tom Hayes’ recovery and a year of raising funds for Seattle Children’s Hospital.