I Care I Cure Charity Event at Marlins Park

Join I Care I Cure for the 2nd Annual Celebrity Chef Culinary & Wine Experience October 26, 2014

This year, the 2nd Annual I Care I Cure Celebrity Chef Culinary & Wine Experience  on October 26, 2014 at Miami Marlins Park will be an evening to remember.  Join us at 5:30PM for a 2 Hour interactive cocktail reception, featuring South Florida Chefs preparing and serving appetizers, passed hors d’oeuvres, Andrew Lampasone from Wine Watch providing wine tastings, a Deep Eddy Vodka station, a unique silent auction and more alkl on the Skyline Terrace with a beautiful view of the Miami skyline.

Follwing the cocktail reception, at 7:30PM, VIP Dinner guests will move to a special location end experience a sumptuous meal with cooking demonstrations by Fontainebleau Miami Beach Chefs Marlon Rambaran of Scarpetta and Jordi Panisello, Executive Pastry Chef.

Here is the list of participating Restaurants for the Wine Tasting Reception:

Michael Moran: Aspire Catering & Events

Angelo Elia: Casa D’Angelo

Susie Stallings, Susie’s Scrumptious Sweets

Sean Fortune: Sea Level at Marriott Harbor Beach

Sparky’s Roadside Barbeque

Crepemakers

Vince Navarette , Levy's Catering

List of participating wineries:

List of participating wineries:

Stellar Wines

Trisaetum Pinot Noir Estate Coast Range 2010
Price: $55.00    Sale $48.40    Case $561

Be Spoken Collection

Recuerdo Aliado Malbec Reserve 2011
Price: $42.00    Sale $36.96    Case $429

Fernandez  de Pierola Winery

Fernandez de Pierola Crianza Rioja 2010
Price: $18.00       Sale $15.84          Case $184
 
Fernandez de Pierola Reserva Rioja 2005
Price: $25.50       Sale $22.44          Case $261
 
Pierola/ Cyatho Vergejo Rueda 2013
Price: $13.50       Sale $11.88          Case $138
 

World of Wine Guide Imports

Claudio Alario Dolcetto Diano D'Alba 2012
Price: $22.50    Sale $19.80    Case $230

Florida Wine Company

Banshee Chardonnay Sonoma Coast 2012
Price: $25.50    Sale $22.44    Case $261

Cliff Lede Winery

Cliff Lede Sauvignon Blanc
Price: $    Sale $    Case $

Cliff Lede Pinot Noir FEL AV
Price: $    Sale $    Case $

Henriot

Luis Canas
Price:  $20.00

Bouchard Bourgogne Chardonnay Reserve
Price: $21.00

Noble Wines

il fauno di Arcanum Toscana
Price: $    Sale $    Case $

Jamison Ranch Vineyards

Reata chardonnay Carneros 2012
Price: $    Sale $    Case $

Reata Pinot Noir Carneros 2012
Price: $    Sale $    Case $

B.R. Cohn Winery

BR Cohn Chardonnay Sangiacomo
Price: $    Sale $    Case $

BR Cohn Cabernet Sauvignon Gold Label
Price: $    Sale $    Case $

Our Mission

The I Care I Cure Childhood Cancer Foundation supports the development of, and raises public awareness about, cutting-edge, targeted therapies for childhood cancer, so that the treatment of childhood cancer will be gentler and more tolerable.

We want to challenge the public’s acceptance that treatment for childhood cancer requires painful and embarrassing side-effects and life-long health disabilities, isolation from friends and family, and short and long-term psychological devastation. By educating the public about scientific breakthroughs in genetic childhood cancer research that are within reach but seriously underfunded, we can quickly raise money to fund research grants and provide seed money to researchers for new studies.

By seeing how close we are to more humane treatment for childhood cancer, we know the public will demand better treatments, NOW.

One more child’s life that is lost to cancer is one too many!

- See more at: http://www.icareicure.org/about/our-mission/#sthash.3TY75cl4.dpuf

Ian’s Story

The I Care I Cure Childhood Cancer Foundation was founded by Beth and Brad Besner (along with their friends and family) in honor of their son, Ian, who was diagnosed with T-Cell Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (ALL) in January, 2006, one week before his 11th birthday. Ian was an extraordinary boy who shared his joy and love of life with everyone who met him.

Ian was an exceptionally gifted student, with an unquenchable thirst for knowledge and an acute curiosity about the world around him. As passionate as Ian was about learning and reading, he was equally passionate about baseball and was a talented little league pitcher and an avid major league and college (UM) baseball fan. He also loved guitar, karate, rollerblading, roller hockey, skateboarding, travel, skiing – you name it, he wanted to try it and be great at it. And he usually was. And, like many kids his age, Ian also loved to “yuck” it up with his brothers and friends and get them to laugh whenever possible. He was witty and fun. In essence, Ian had a love of life and life’s experiences that was irresistible and infectious.

When Ian was diagnosed with leukemia, his whole world fell apart. He was bitterly angry. While the “cure” rate for ALL has come a long way with “cure” rates of 75-80% “, the reality of pediatric cancer treatment is excruciatingly difficult. Ian’s treatment was to last about 2 ½, years and entail massive doses of toxic chemotherapies administered orally, intravenously, through frequent shots to his legs and spine, and radiation to his brain. To a bright, joyful, enthusiastic child, this so-called “cure” was a death sentence – the end of life as he knew it.

Ian’s treatment required him to stay out of school and away from friends because of low immunities. Current chemotherapy kills all fast-replicating cells – the good and the bad — instead of just the cancer-causing cells. This shotgun approach to treatment, leaves no white blood cells to ward off infection and causes hair loss. Ian was ashamed of his appearance and his physical weakness and was embarrassed to see friends. He was isolated and lonely much of the time and frustrated with his physical limits. And when he should have been gaining independence, Ian’s choices were now left to his doctors and parents who needed to save his life. He suffered anxiety each and every time he had to go to the hospital as he knew what he was facing – vomiting, painful mouth sores, pain, nausea, blood transfusions, and more vomiting. Ian often asked why the “cure” had to hurt so much.

Unfortunately, Ian died on May 31, 2006, just four months after his diagnosis and after four months of bravely enduring an excruciatingly difficult chemotherapy regimen. While Ian was cancer-free after just 15 days of treatment, following several more rounds of toxic chemotherapy, he had no immune system with which to fight meningitis that infected him. He was gone within weeks of entering the hospital with a fever. Plain and simply, the drugs that were supposed to save Ian’s life, ended up killing him.

After Ian died, his parents thought often about Ian’s question . . . Why DOES pediatric cancer treatment have to be so hard? Can it be improved? What is being done to improve treatments and to limit the horrendous side effects of treatments? Why do there have to be such debilitating long-term emotional and health problems after treatment? Having had to witness their child suffer, the Besners wanted to spare other children and their parents that agony. Having found themselves dumbfounded when Ian was ill, the Besners realized that much of the public is completely unaware of the pain and suffering kids endure under current chemotherapy regimens.

They also realized that they had find a way to continue Ian’s spirit of community service in a way that would touch the lives of others and inspire kids to commit to volunteerism at a young age. Ian’s friends and family knew that they had to carry on Ian’s “caring” nature.

After witnessing Ian’s physical and emotional struggle with pediatric cancer and its current treatment, his family and friends knew that Ian would also want to spare as many children as possible the awful pain and suffering that he was forced to endure.

Armed with knowledge and first-hand experience, the Besners knew they needed to devote their efforts to educating the public about and finding gentler, more humane cures for childhood cancer.

- See more at: http://www.icareicure.org/about/ians-story/#sthash.uW65fCn2.dpuf