Special to the Times Vedette
The annual Tori’s Angels free-will offering breakfast benefit and silent auction was held Sunday, June 16 at the Panora Community Center from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. Attendees enjoyed eggs, sausage, pancakes and drinks. The annual breakfast celebrates the foundation’s first breakfast in 2010 for then-5-year-old Tori Heckman, who needed heart surgery in Boston. The subsequent foundation was named for the 800 attendees who so generously donated money for Tori’s surgery and proved themselves to be one of Tori’s Angels. Since that first breakfast, the foundation has accepted more than 150 children with life-threatening illnesses and currently supports more than 115 children across Iowa. Nine of the foundation’s currently sponsored children reside or have resided in Guthrie County and were honored at the event.
Anyone who was unable to attend the benefit and wishes to help Tori’s Angels children is invited to send donations to Tori’s Angels at P.O. Box 186, Panora IA 50216. Online donation options are located on the foundation’s website, www.torisangels.org and on Facebook, www.facebook/torisangels. For more information about Tori’s Angels, check the foundation’s website. To request an application for support, contact the foundation through its website or by calling 641-755-2011.
Travis Heckman, Leigh-Ashley Heckman, Tori Heckman and Blake Heckman
Becky Moomey and Mariah Chapman
Jan Wilwerding, Jena Ellerbeck and Patty Reeve
M.J. Brown and Barb Bahde
Casey Crees and Brenda Wilson
Julie Dent Zajicek, Bill Ridgley and JoAnn Alumbaugh