The 13 jazz bands and performers brought together for the 20th Anniversary Hot Steamed Jazz Festival began playing Friday evening, and barely stopped for a breath until Sunday evening’s closing sets, to the delight of the record crowd. The non-profit Hot Steamed Jazz Festival donates proceeds to The Hole in the Wall Gang Camp, a summer camp that annually helps 20,000 children dealing with cancer, sickle cell anemia and other serious illnesses.
EAST FALMOUTH – While Monday's heavy rain washed out play at The Golf Club of Cape Cod, the Caron-Wood Charity Classic was still a victory for the tournament and the charities it supports. In its brief five-year history, the event has raised more than $150,000, awarded in the form of scholarships to local graduates, donations to the Hole in the Wall Gang Camp, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Bruins Foundation and the Cape Cod Junior Golf Association.
GolfChannel.com Senior Writer Jason Sobel is in Cromwell, Connecticut this week for the Travelers Championship.
HARTFORD, Conn.-- At first, he panicked. “What if no one shows?” he asked out loud to no one in particular. “We built this for the kids, and what if they don’t come?” Actor-turned-philanthropist Paul Newman, whose visionary mind had just opened the doors in Ashford, Conn., to the Hole in the Wall Gang Camp for kids with life-threatening illnesses, seemingly had reason for concern. The fact was, Newman’s vision was slow out of the gate. But that was 25 years ago.
One of the charities benefiting from The Traveler's Championship is the late Paul Newman's camp for sick children. It's a special place where "kids can just be kids."
SmackDown announcer and former six-time World Champion Booker T traded in his ring boots for golf shoes Wednesday when he competed in the 2012 Travelers Celebrity Pro-Am Golf Tournament. The celebrity charity tournament was held at TPC River Highlands in Cromwell, Conn., as part of the lead-up to the Travelers Championship PGA Tour event.
Sanam Rastegar talks about why she chose to work with The Hole in the Wall Gang Camp.
An avid cyclist, Dave King, looks for any excuse to ride. However, the Old Saybrook resident had a special reason to get his bike out this past Memorial Day weekend. For the second year in a row, King took part in AngelRide, a two-day bicycle ride across Connecticut. The ride begins in Norfolk, Connecticut’s Northwest corner, where teams bike 85 miles to The Hole in the Wall Gang Camp in Ashford, CT, founded in 1988 by actor Paul Newman to serve children with cancer, sickle cell anemia and other life-threatening illnesses.
When Kings Highway School teachers and students collaborate for a cause, they do it with it gusto. The school's efforts to support the Hole in the Wall Gang Camp -- a camp for sick children founded by the late actor Paul Newman, a Westport resident -- have been recognized with an inaugural Kids for Camp Award from the charity.
HARTFORD, Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Travelers is pleased to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Travelers Championship, which tees off with opening ceremonies on June 18 at 9:00 a.m. EDT at TPC River Highlands in Cromwell, Conn. A spectacular field of some of the world’s top PGA TOUR professionals headlines the tournament including defending champion Fredrik Jacobson, Bubba Watson, Hunter Mahan, Matt Kuchar, Ian Poulter, Charl Schwartzel, Vijay Singh, Padraig Harrington, Ryo Ishikawa and many others. The week includes great golf and entertainment for the entire family with 100 percent of net proceeds donated to more than 100 charities in the Northeast region including The Hole in the Wall Gang Camp, a summer camp for children coping with cancer, sickle cell anemia and other serious illnesses. The tournament has generated $29 million dollars for charity since its inception and will surpass the $30 million dollar mark with this year’s event.
Waterford, CT — Waterford Speedbowl and Mr. Rooter of Connecticut are proud to announce a partnership with The Hole in the Wall Gang Camp, founded by late actor and auto racing enthusiast Paul Newman.
“Theater has been my passion since I was five years old,” said Tessa Duke, about the interest that started when, as a kindergartener, she played a caterpillar in “Sleeping Beauty.” That interest continued even as a seventeen-year-old, when the senior at Fairfield Ludlowe High School earned the Girl Scout Gold Award by teaching theater to children at the Hole in the Wall Gang Camp.
Fitness Factory co-owner Andy Berman and teammate Emily Bass knock out push-ups at the gym Saturday in a Push-Up-Athon to raise money to send sick children to the Hole in the Wall Gang Camp this summer.
WESTPORT?--?The Westport Fire Department pushed themselves to a victory over the Westport Police Department in a two-hour charity push-up competition at The Fitness Factory of Westport on Saturday.
Bridget Moynahan and best-selling author Anna Quindlen are coming to the Travelers Championship in Cromwell next month.
Tommy McDonagh was disappointed after tying for second place Tuesday in the Russell C. Palmer Cup. Still, with the Connecticut state amateur only one month away, the defending champion had to be buoyed by his performance.
Saturday, May 26 will be an exciting day for The Hole in the Wall Gang Camp, the camp founded by Paul Newman in Ashford, Conn. to serve children with cancer, sickle cell anemia and other life-threatening illnesses. Beginning at 10 a.m., friends of the Camp will have the opportunity to vote for the charity to win a new Toyota.
The Travelers Championship is, of course, a professional golf tournament, but it’s about so much more than golf, it’s about community, and over $30 million the proceeds from the tournament have poured into hundreds of local charities as it celebrates it’s 60th birthday.
According to kindergarten teacher Deborah Hart and second grade teacher Barbara Michel, the recent fundraiser encouraging students and their families to scour their homes for coins to share with Paul Newman’s Hole in the Wall Gang Camp brought in ...
With the season of charity runs, walks, and rides, upon us, there are no shortage of stories of Southborough residents going above and beyond to do their part for causes they hold near and dear. It began earlier this week when a number of our neighbors braved the heat to run the Boston Marathon for their favorite charity.
Registrations are rolling in for the ninth annual AngelRide, Connecticut’s only cross-state cycling event, which is taking place over the upcoming Memorial Day weekend to benefit The Hole in the Wall Gang Camp’s Hospital Outreach Program.
Nathan Grube found the perfect way to get Bubba Watson to play at the Travelers Championship.
