OVER FOUR DECADES OF
QUALITY CARE & EDUCATION
Holmdel Dentistry
Show your Loved Ones
a Brighter Smile this Spring!
Turning Point Restaurants Raise More Than
$100,000 for The Kortney Rose Foundation
BY LORI DRAZ
TheJournalNJ.com | APRIL 2020 17
This Feb. 29, all the Turning
Point Restaurants once again
supported The Kortney Rose
Foundation (KRF) during the 11th
annual Great Food for a Great
Cause event. The event raised a
record-setting $106,000, pushing
its cumulative total to more than
$516,000 in donations.
These funds will go to continue
KRF’s mission to raise funds for
collaborative research on pediatric
brain tumors, the top cause of
death by disease in children.
All those who dined at any of
the 19 Turning Point Restaurant
locations in New Jersey, Pennsylvania
The Little Silver Turning Point staff and Kortney Rose Foundation’s Kristen and Rich Gillette
celebrate the record-breaking donation.
and Delaware and donated to KRF received a Turning Point gift card to
be used on their next visit.
worldwide collaborative institutions making up the Children’s Brain Tumor
Tissue Consortium (CBTTC). They share specimens and data to accelerate discovery
of effective treatments
and cures for children with
pediatric brain/central nervous
system tumors. The CBTTC is operated
out of the Center for Data
Driven Discovery in Biomedicine
at the Children’s Hospital
of Philadelphia. To date, KRF
founders Kristen and Rich Gillette
are approaching $2.5 million
donated through the foundation
for pediatric brain tumor
research in the memory of their
daughter Kortney, who died
from a brain tumor in 2006.
Turning Point owners
Kirk and Pam Ruoff said, “Every
year our staff and patrons look forward to this fundraiser.”
The next fundraiser is The Kortney Rose Foundation’s 15th annual Kortney’s
Challenge 2 Mile Fun Run/Walk at Monmouth Park on Sunday, Aug. 2.
To learn more and to register, visit TheKortneyRoseFoundation.org.
CALL TODAY TO ARRANGE A TOUR! 732-888-1919
HolmdelPreschool.com HolmdelPC@gmail.com
674 N. Beers Street, Holmdel NJ 07733
Special Rates For Families Impacted By Covid-19
/TheJournalNJ.com
/TheKortneyRoseFoundation.org
/HolmdelPreschool.com
link