Athletes & Actors - The Main Event, CFK fundraiser with Hollywood, MLB, NHL, and fashion stars and over 1,000 Long Island business leaders

Hollywood, Sports, News, and Fashion
Stars to Raise Funds For Families of Long Island’s Seriously
Ill Children on March 14

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9th Annual Contractors For Kids Reception at the Atlantis Aquarium in
Riverhead to Bring Together Over 1,000 Celebrities,
Socialites, and Business Leaders

Riverhead, NY – Hollywood, sports, news, and fashion celebrities
will join over 1,000 Long Island and Greater New York area real estate,
finance, and architecture business leaders to raise funds for Contractors For Kids (CFK), the largest
building industry-supported, children-focused charity in the Northeast.  The event will take place at the Atlantis Long Island Aquarium &
Exhibition Center in Riverhead on Friday, March 14, from 7:00 pm to 12:00 am.  One hundred percent of the proceeds will benefit CFK.

This year’s “Athletes & Actors – The Main Event” dinner-dance reception
will include appearances and photo and signature opportunities by the following
A-listers:

Actors:

Vanessa Marcil           (actress,
General Hospital, Beverly Hills 90210, The Rock, Las
Vegas)

Tyler Christopher       (actor, General
Hospital)

Scott Reeves               (singer/songwriter,
actor, General Hospital, The Young & the Restless)

Carmine Cangialosi     (actor and
writer, The Beach House, Friends ‘Till The End, Rescue Me,

Blue
Bloods, Guiding Light)

TV personalities:

Brian Kilmeade           (co-host
of Fox & Friends and author of George Washington's Secret Six:

            The Spy Ring That Saved the American
Revolution)

Athletes:

Sean Landeta               (New
York Giants punter, 1980s and 1990s NFL All-Decade Teams)

Marty Lyons              (New York
Jets defensive tackle, College Football Hall of Fame)

Bud Harrelson             (New
York Mets shortstop, MLB 2x All-Star, 2x World Series Championships)

Anthony Sherman       (Kansas City
Chiefs fullback)

Jace Angus                  (saddle
bronc rodeo rider, winner of Texas Circuit, CNFR, and West Coast NIRA)

Bret Saberhagen          (Boston
Red Sox pitcher, 3x MLB All-Star, 2x Cy Young Award)

Jesse Barfield              (New
York Yankees right fielder, MLB All-Star, 2x Golden Glove Award)

Tommy John              (New York
Yankees pitcher, 4x MLB All-Star, 288 career wins)

Dwight Gooden          (New York
Yankees, New York Mets pitcher, 4x MLB All-Star,

Cy Young Award Winner, 3x World Series
Championships)

Fashion:

AnaTracey Hawkins   (international
fashion model, host of Fashion TV, CFK volunteer,

and Vice President of Marketing at Stalco
Construction)

The main reception will take place at the Atlantis Long Island Aquarium
& Exhibition Center at 431 East Main Street in Riverhead, NY on March 14, from 7:00 pm to 12:00 am.
 The event will begin at 5:30 pm with a
BBQ and chili tailgate party in front of the Aquarium followed by a private
meet-and-greet session with celebrities from 6:00 pm to 7:00 pm.  The reception will include photo
opportunities with celebrities, a casino with 20 tables, a dance floor, and
other games.  For additional information and to purchase tickets, please visit: www.contractorsforkids.org .

CFK Co-founder Kevin G. Harney of Stalco Construction said,
“I would like to invite all Greater New York and Long Island’s business leaders
and professionals to attend the star-studded evening of well-deserved relief
from this year’s winter.  Your
contributions will help CFK financially assist families of children in need of
surgeries, long-term medical care, therapy, and everyday expenses.”

The following firms sponsor the
event: Stalco Construction, Suffolk County National Bank, Sigma Aerospace
Metals, DeMartino Construction, Diversified Construction, Vehicle Tracking
Solutions, Win Win Solutions, Rothco, ALAC, Giaquinto Masonry, JPR Mechanical, and
many other regional companies.  Event
planner and CFK member and supporter, The Eventide Group, organized the
fundraiser.

Founded in 2005 by Kevin G. Harney and Alan Nahmias,
all-volunteer CFK has attracted enthusiastic support from over 300 real estate
firms, financial companies, builders, architects, engineers, and other
businesses.  To date, CFK has raised over
$4 million and assisted nearly 450 families.  CFK’s Kids
4 Kids youth volunteer chapter has raised more than $100,000 since 2013.  

The non-profit serves as a financial lifeline of last
resort after families have exhausted all other resources.  It also has a goal of giving parents an
opportunity to provide all available medical assistance to their children,
regardless of the parents’ financial circumstances or the child’s long-term
prognosis.

According to Harney, the organization offers help
extending beyond payment of medical bills.  
“We reimburse travel costs related to cutting-edge treatments unavailable
locally and provide aid to families unable to submit mortgage or utility payments
due to healthcare-related expenses.  We
also assist parents faced with the heartbreaking task of making funeral
arrangements for their children,” he said.

The stories of families who
turn to CFK for assistance vary as much as illnesses suffered by their children. 

CFK recently assisted the mother
of Michael Hubbard, a teenage boy form Riverhead.  Michael suffered extensive burns and a
cardiac arrest due to a gel candle explosion. 
The accident caused widespread injuries, a permanent disability, and a
prolonged rehabilitation.  The boy’s mother
sold most of her belongings and lived at a hospital taking care of her son for more
than a year.  CFK assisted the family
with payments for food, cell phone bills, and medical and personal care
supplies.

Earlier this year, CFK helped a
low-income family by covering all funeral expenses following a sudden death of
their five-year-old daughter.  In another
case this year, CFK has been providing travel expense reimbursements to parents
of a four-year-old boy who suffers from up to 100 seizures ever day due to a
neurological disorder.  The family
frequently travels to Boston Children’s Hospital for treatments.

CFK also assisted a family of a
13-year-old boy suffering from multiple medical conditions, including a seizure
disorder, mitochondrial disease, and a tumor behind an eye.  After the boy’s mother quit her job to care
for him, the father’s income became insufficient to cover all of the on-going living
expenses.  CFK helped the family avert
bankruptcy and loss of their home by paying a mortgage installment as well as
utility bills.

In another recent case, the
organization helped a family of a ten-year-old boy suffering from
neuroblastoma, a malignant brain tumor. 
Local hospitals were unable to help the little patient, however, a
clinic in Texas offered to perform an experimental treatment.  CFK provided funds that helped the family
travel to Texas and pay for medical procedures. 
The treatment reduced the size of the boy’s tumor.

CFK also
assisted a single mother of a five-year old boy awaiting a heart
transplant.  The mother and her child,
who had already undergone three open-heart surgeries, spent many hours on a
public bus commuting more than 30 miles twice a week to the Stony Brook
University Medical Center for medical procedures.  CFK purchased a car for the young
mother.  The following year, after the
property in which the family rented an apartment had been foreclosed, CFK
associates raised monies sufficient for two years of rent in a new apartment.

To support CFK and learn about the organization’s
activities and upcoming events, please visit www.contractorsforkids.org or call
1-888-208-KIDS.