Kevin Kitchnefsky Foundation for Spinal Cord Research Seeks to Hit Goal of $500,000

May 23, 2012 - PRLog -- The Kevin Kitchnefsky Foundation has been raising funds to help support spinal cord research and families affected by spinal injuries since 1999.  This year the Kitchnefsky Foundation has hopes of reaching a goal of $500,000.  In their 13 year history, the Foundation is now approximately $20,000 away from making that mark.    On Sunday, June 24th, the Foundation will be holding their 14th golf tournament in an effort to attain this milestone.  The Golf Tournament will be held at Stone Hedge Golf Course in Tunkhannock with a tee off at 8AM.  Sign-ups for the event begin at 6AM.
Golfers will be treated to a nice dinner following the tournament provided by Stone Hedge in their newly built facility.  “It’s exciting to have this milestone tournament held at probably the best location in Northeast PA.  The new renovations at Stone Hedge make it quite a wonderful experience for golfers. Stone Hedge is likely the nicest golf course in the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Area to New York State.”, says Yvonne Kitchnefsky.  This captain and crew tournament is also set to include cash prizes, as well as awards for closest to the pin and a the chance to win a Tri-State Golf Cart and a four wheeler courtesy of Caddy LaBar for a hole in one.  
The Kevin Kitchnefsky Foundation is seeking sponsors for the event which in the past has attracted 144 golfers.   Current Sponsors include:  Twig’s Restaurant; Northeast Rehabilitation; Cabot Oil; Wisnosky Jewelers; Rosenn, Jenkins and Greenwald, LLC; the New Shoe Store, Tri-State Golf Cart; Gannon Associates and Caddy Labar.
For more information on sponsoring the Kevin Kitchnefsky Foundation Golf Tournament or golfing in the event call 570-836-1240.  
The Kevin Kitchnefsky Foundation is the only organization of its type in Northeast PA with the ultimate goal of finding a cure for paralysis.  In 1996, while on the job for a construction company in New Jersey, Kevin was unloading two stacks of chain-link fence from a tractor-trailer. After one of the crew removed the top portion, he climbed to the top of the remaining stack to remove the wooden pallets that separated the stacks. Just after he jumped off the truck, the remaining 27 units of chain-link fence, each weighing about 100 pounds, slid off the truck and pinned him against the tractor-trailer, breaking half a dozen vertebrae and damaging his spinal cord.  The damage resulted in paralysis from the chest down. Kevin says, "Doctors, who are among the leading spinal cord specialists in the world, have told me that at the current level of medical technology, I have only a 1% chance of ever walking again. I am determined to improve those odds.