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Marie Otto Fill Your Bucket List Foundation 919-307-7759 [email protected] MEDIA ADVISORY FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – 4/20/16 FILL YOUR BUCKET LIST FOUNDATION HOSTS COOK-OFF AT ANNUAL GALA MORRISVILLE, N.C. – On Saturday, April 23, 2016, Fill Your Bucket List Foundation will hold the 2 nd Annual Bucket Bash at The Chef’s Academy in Morrisville, North Carolina to raise money to grant wishes to adults with cancer. Fill Your Bucket List Foundation is a nonprofit based in Cary, North Carolina, that grants wishes to low income adults with cancer from all over the U.S. The fundraising goal for the Bucket Bash is $100,000. WHAT: An evening of great food, dancing, a silent auction and a cook-off between very talented chefs. Tickets are $75 per person and all proceeds go toward funding a wish for a cancer patient. WHO: Mitch Samples, chef instructor and purchasing manager at The Chef’s Academy; Eddie Wilson, executive chef at North Carolina State University’s Talley Student Union; Eric Gephart, chief culinary officer at Kamado Grille; and Ron Salerno, food and beverage director at Concord Hospitality Enterprises. WHEN: The charity event will take place Saturday, April 23, 2016, from 6-10 p.m. Tickets are on sale now and can be purchased online at https://bucketbash.auction-bid.org/micro2.php. Scheduled activities: 6 p.m. Check-in; silent auction opens 6:30 p.m. Buffet begins; cook-off begins in The Chef’s Academy 8 p.m. Thanks and presentation of past wish recipients; “raise your paddle” bidding -MORE- This media advisory was used in my previous internship with Fill Your Bucket List Foundation, a nonprofit that sends adults with cancer on “bucket list” trips. The media advisory was distributed to local news stations as well as food critics to increase awareness about the fundraising event.

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Marie OttoFill Your Bucket List [email protected]

MEDIA ADVISORY

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – 4/20/16

FILL YOUR BUCKET LIST FOUNDATION HOSTS COOK-OFF AT ANNUAL GALA

MORRISVILLE, N.C. – On Saturday, April 23, 2016, Fill Your Bucket List Foundation will hold the 2nd Annual Bucket Bash at The Chef’s Academy in Morrisville, North Carolina to raise money to grant wishes to adults with cancer. Fill Your Bucket List Foundation is a nonprofit based in Cary, North Carolina, that grants wishes to low income adults with cancer from all over the U.S. The fundraising goal for the Bucket Bash is $100,000. WHAT: An evening of great food, dancing, a silent auction and a cook-off between

very talented chefs. Tickets are $75 per person and all proceeds go toward funding a wish for a cancer patient.

WHO: Mitch Samples, chef instructor and purchasing manager at The Chef’s

Academy; Eddie Wilson, executive chef at North Carolina State University’s Talley Student Union; Eric Gephart, chief culinary officer at Kamado Grille; and Ron Salerno, food and beverage director at Concord Hospitality Enterprises.

WHEN: The charity event will take place Saturday, April 23, 2016, from 6-10 p.m.

Tickets are on sale now and can be purchased online at https://bucketbash.auction-bid.org/micro2.php.

Scheduled activities: 6 p.m. Check-in; silent auction opens

6:30 p.m. Buffet begins; cook-off begins in The Chef’s Academy 8 p.m. Thanks and presentation of past wish recipients; “raise your

paddle” bidding

-MORE-

This media advisory was used in my previous internship with Fill Your Bucket List Foundation, a nonprofit that sends adults with cancer on “bucket list” trips. The media advisory was distributed to local news stations as well as food critics to increase awareness about the fundraising event.