After a chance introduction by a mutual friend more than two decades ago, Alec Baldwin dedicated much of his rare free time to helping Paul Newman fulfill his dream of making the lives of some children just a little brighter.
The Travelers Championship donates 100 percent of its net profits to a number of charities, including the Hole in the Wall Gang Camp. Tim Lammers talks all about the camp.
Fox CT’s Tim Lammers sat down with Cameron Merritt, a camper from The Hole In The Wall Gang Camp, which is a partner with Travelers, title sponsor of the Travelers Championship.
The annual Hot Steamed Jazz Festivalreturns to the Essex Steam Train venue, Friday through Sunday, June 21-23. The group's board of directors has announced that this year's festivities will benefit The Hole in the Wall Gang Camp, founded by the late Westport actor Paul Newman, for children with cancer or serious blood diseases.
The star of Monday's opening ceremonies of the Travelers Golf Championship at TPC River Highlands was 11-year-old Cameron Merritt. Merritt was diagnosed with Stage IV Hodgkin's Lymphoma when in kindergarten. He talked about the battles he went through, including the surgeries and the chemotherapy. "I wore my Red Sox cap to cover my bald head," he said. He also talked about his times at the Hole in the Wall Gang Camp, a place established by actor Paul Newman for children with cancer and other life-threatening illnesses. "When I go to camp it's the most wonderful time of the year," he said. "I hope to be a counselor one day."
You can debate the placement of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid among Hollywood’s greatest westerns, but few films can match its remarkable legacy. Besides winning four Academy Awards and earning a spot among the American Film Institute’s 100 Greatest Movies, it inspired Robert Redford to create the Sundance Film Festival and costar Paul Newman to found the Hole in the Wall Gang Camp.
Thousands of runners will line up next weekend to be part of the two-day annual Stratton Faxon Fairfield Road Races at Jennings Beach. The "signature" charity of the Fairfield races the past few years continues to be Paul Newman's Hole in the Wall Gang Camp.
James Krupienski has a challenging Memorial Day weekend ahead with the 136-mile AngelRide. Now in its 10th year, AngelRide is a two-day charity bicycle ride, with 100 percent of the donations going to benefit the Hole in the Wall Gang Camp Hospital Outreach Program.
James Krupienski has a challenging Memorial Day weekend ahead with the 136-mile AngelRide. Now in its 10th year, AngelRide is a two-day charity bicycle ride, with 100 percent of the donations going to benefit the Hole in the Wall Gang Camp Hospital Outreach Program.
Moynahan is speaking at the Social Innovation Summit 2013 at the United Nations headquarters in New York May 29. She’ll be talking about her work with Connecticut’s The Hole in the Wall Gang Camp. Founded in 1988 by actor and philanthropist Paul Newman, the camp (which is free of charge) is for children who are seriously ill.
The Fairfield Road Races are a non-profit organization that, with the help of its participants, has contributed over $4 million to non-profit groups in the past.
Race Director Steve Lobdell said “This past year alone a record amount of over $400,000 was raised for the Paul Newman’s Hole in the Wall Gang Camp, Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, Operation Gift Cards, John Patrick Flanagan Foundation, Fairfield YMCA and a number of other local charities.”
As Westporters we all know a bit about the Hole in the Wall Camp. On Thursday, Jimmy Canton, the Camp’s CEO, told Y’s Men of Westport-Weston all about it and thanked the community for its support.
Run with Team Hole in the Wall at the Fairfield Half Marathon or 5K in June and help celebrate The Hole in the Wall Gang Camp’s 25th Anniversary.
A member of the “Chicago Seven,” architect Thomas Beeby, FAIA, took home the 2013 Richard H. Driehaus Prize at the University of Notre Dame to become the prize’s 11th laureate. Beeby’s notable designs include the Harold Washington Library Center in Chicago; the Hole in the Wall Gang Camp in Ashford, Conn.; Rice University’s James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy; and the Rice Building at the Art Institute in Chicago.
Ask anyone involved with the Hole in the Wall Gang Camp why, twenty-five years ago, Paul Newman came up with the idea, and he or she will tell you that Newman wanted to found a place where kids could “raise a little hell,” regardless of their life-limiting conditions. A visit to the Camp in Ashford, Connecticut, reveals that it’s the perfect place to do just that.
For the Connecticut Chapter’s Volunteerism and Community Service Award winner, Richard Kayne, MD of Woodbridge, engagement had deeply personal roots. His son, a survivor of osteosarcoma, attended Paul Newman’s Hole in the Wall Gang Camp in 1995.
The Simon Konover Company (TSKC) and its Team Simon Konover raised over $115,000 in the Camp Challenge Ride campaign to benefit The Hole in the Wall Gang Camp located in Ashford, Conn.
The Travelers Championship PGA tournament announced on Tuesday the 2012 event generated $1.15 million for more than 100 charities around the region, the highest since the insurer took over title sponsorship in 2007. Recipients of this year's $1.15 million include The Hole in the Wall Gang Camp in Ashford, Achieve Hartford!, the Connecticut Food Bank in East Haven, and the Southington Northern Little League.
University of Connecticut redshirt senior Heather Buck is no stranger to being in the spotlight, as she enters her final year of eligibility for one of the nation’s most prestigious women’s basketball programs. Throughout the summer, Buck volunteered her time at The Hole in the Wall Gang Camp. Based out of Ashford, CT, the Camp is dedicated to providing “a different kind of healing” to seriously ill children and their families throughout the Northeast.
Jeremiah, 19, didn't feel well one day eleven years ago. While in third-grade at Parkway School, he vomited and lost consciousness. Paramedics rushed him to Greenwich Hospital. Doctors performed emergency surgery and found a malignant brain tumor. "Like someone said, 'Tag, you're it,'" John recalled. "The weight of the world struck at once." But in the northeastern Connecticut town of Ashford, 100 miles away from the McCarthy home, counselors at the Hole in the Wall Gang Camp came calling. Actor Paul Newman and his wife, actress Joanne Woodward, founded the camp in 1988 for children with cancer and other serious diseases, for whom it is free of charge. The haven is named for the outlaws in "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid," but Mary-Beth, John's wife and Jeremiah's mom, just calls it "Shangri-La."
