- November 22, 2024
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Sponsors and Realty Executives Oceanside crew at the Boo-Ling for Wishes fundraiser on Oct. 26 at Palm Coast Lanes. Courtesy photo
Make-A-Wish family Leandra and Joshua Sweet and children (from left), Hadley, Cora, Tavia and Marsden, participated in the Boo-Ling for Wishes event at Palm Coast Lanes. Photo by Brent Woronoff
The Breakers Electric crew at the Boo-Ling for Wishes event on Oct. 26 at Palm Coast Lanes. Photo by Brent Woronoff
Bowling was just one of the competitions at the second annual Boo-Ling for Wishes fundraiser on Oct. 26 at Palm Coast Lanes. Participants obviously took the individual and team costume contests very seriously.
Costumes include Gru and his Minions and a variety of inflatable outfits. Realty Executives Oceanside hosted the event to raise money for the Make-A-Wish Foundation of Central and Northern Florida.
The event’s goal was to raise enough money to fulfill two wishes for critically ill children, or about $16,000. But they actually raised enough to grant a wish for three children, said Josephine L’Heureux, Realty Executives Oceanside administrative executive.
The event sponsor was Stellar MLS with about two dozen other local businesses providing sponsorships. About 30 other local businesses provided baskets for the silent auction.
Make-A-Wish representative Alyssa Muma served as judge for the costume contests.
The Sweet family of St. Augustine enjoyed the cosmic bowling. Cora Sweet, 7, is scheduled to have her wish come true — swimming with dolphins as part of a Disney cruise to the Bahamas — in January.
Joining Cora at Boo-Ling were her parents, Leandra and Joshua, brother Marsden and sisters Tavia and Hadley. Cora has a rare congenital heart disease and has traveled to California twice for open heart surgeries. She will require lifelong interventions, her mother said.
In addition to the upcoming cruise, the Make-A-Wish Foundation has provided the family with other special outings, including the bowling event, a fashion show that included Cora, making her feel very special, her parents said, and a jewelry store event in Ponte Vedra Beach that made Cora a princess for a day.
“Make-A-Wish is just such an amazing organization,” Leandra Sweet said.
