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City of Hope Cruise Filling up
July 27,
2011 by in UnCategorized 
By Home Furnishings Business in Community/Charitable Support on July 28, 2011
Tickets are moving briskly for City of Hope's National Home Furnishings Industry's Northeast Sept. 10 Cruise for Hope around Manhattan.
"I am deeply moved by the difference being made by the extraordinary City of Hope scientists and caregivers in the ways life-threatening diseases are researched and treated, says City of Hope Honoree Simon Kaplan, of Value City New Jersey and Ashley Furniture Homestores of New Jersey, and who recently toured the City of Hope hospital campus in Los Angeles and met with staff. "Knowing that we can raise a significant amount of money to enhance these efforts and help give families their lives back is humbling and inspiring."
Chaired by Patrick Cory of Cory Home Delivery, the gala cruise on the Cornucopia honoring Kaplan is the Northeast Committee's inaugural event to raise funds for life-saving research and treatment programs for cancer and other life-threatening diseases at City of Hope, one of only 40 Comprehensive Cancer Centers accredited by the National Cancer Institute.
The Saturday evening cruise will feature a tour of the skyline, dining, dancing, and entertainment, as well as stunning views of lower Manhattan including the first completed sections of the new World Trade Centers, Ellis Island, the Statue of Liberty, Governor's Island, South Street Seaport and the Brooklyn Bridge. The program will include an official memoriam to mark the 10th anniversary of Sept. 11, as well as Mr. Kaplans military service. He served in the U.S. Army from 1942 until 1945.
"Honoring Simon and commemorating this enormous event in the life of America will truly bring home City of Hope's mission to our friends on the East Coast," Cory said. "We are all deeply affected by the work that City of Hope does. There's no place like it anywhere else in the world."
For information and reservations, contact Beth Stern at City of Hope by e-mail or at 626.560.9432.