Celebrity Sighting!

My mother attended the 2008 "Tickets for Charity" event at the Turning Stone Resort and Casino in Verona, NY where Syracuse University basketball coach Jim Boeheim and his wife Juli were members of the Honorary Host Commitee.

Anyone who knows - or knows of - the Boeheims knows how charitable and giving they are. Boeheim is especially active with Coaches vs. Cancer - helping to fight an affliction the Hall of Fame coach himself once battled.

Here is a blurb about Boeheim from the SU Athletics website:

"A champion of many charitable causes, Boeheim has been most active with “Coaches vs. Cancer,” a national fundraising organization affiliated with the National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC) and the American Cancer Society. Boeheim’s local campaign has led all others in money raised for seven of the last eight years. He has also lent his time to Crouse Hospital’s Kienzl Family MaternityCenter, the Children’s Miracle Network, the Make-A-Wish Foundation, the Pioneer Center for the Blind and Disabled, Lighthouse, People in Wheelchairs, Easter Seals, the Special Olympics, the Rescue Mission and the Jack Bruen Fund. The Crouse Health Foundation chose Boeheim as its honoree for Tribute Evening 2003, the Foundation’s annual fundraising gala. In May 2005, he received the James P. Wilmot Cancer Center Inspiration Award from the University of Rochester Medical Center."