CORE WISH reaches $100K milestone

Cheers, June, 2005

Children Of Restaurant Employees, Ltd., (CORE), a non-profit organization focused on educating and encouraging employees in the hospitality industry with children who have life-threatening medical conditions, has reached a contribution milestone of $100,000 for CORE WISH, a program it co-sponsors with the Make-A-Wish Foundation. (Make-A-Wish helps to grant the wishes of children with life-threatening medical conditions.)

CORE WISH was set up to help children of CORE as well as other children served by the Make-A-Wish Foundation. The organization says that whether it's a general manager at a national chain restaurant who is aware that one of his waitresses has a daughter with a life-threatening condition or a banquet manager at a hotel who's only son has a life-threatening condition, CORE WISH is the industry's way of educating, supporting, encouraging and donating to the children and their families that are going through the challenges of their medical conditions. For more information on how to donate, refer a child or volunteer, visit www.corewish.org.

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