Nardin Academy Wins Kiss 98.5’s High School Spirit 2007 Contest

For Immediate Release
May 9, 2007

BUFFALO, NY—After over 4.4 million pennies were counted, Nardin Academy has been named the first-place winner in Kiss 98.5 FM’s High School Spirit contest. This year’s contest collected more than $44,000 in coins plus an additional $20,000 in sponsorships to raise $64,000 benefiting Carly’s Club for Kids and Cancer Research at Roswell Park Cancer Institute (RPCI).

Nardin students raised $11,000 of the total. The school will receive a free concert by national recording artists The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus later this month, and Nardin seniors will head off to Darien Lake for a free Graduation Celebration as rewards for the students’ efforts. The school was one of 29 high schools from across Western New York that participated in High School Spirit 2007, which was sponsored by Pepsi and Cold Stone Creamery. For a list of additional participating schools, visit www.carlysclub.org.

Local high school students collected pennies and had them counted at a Kiss 98.5 drop-off site located at the Eastern Hills Mall from March 12 through April 27. This marked the eighth year for the Kiss 98.5 High School Spirit Contest, which has now raised more than $504,000 to benefit local charities across Western New York.

Carly’s Club was founded by eight-year-old brain cancer patient, Carly Collard Cottone, who bravely succumbed to her illness in August 2002. The organization, managed by the Roswell Park Alliance Foundation, offers support programs to make life more manageable for children diagnosed with cancer and their families, and raises funds for pediatric cancer research seeking cures at Roswell Park Cancer Institute. For more information about Carly’s Club, and additional giving opportunities, call 716-845-8788.  

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The Roswell Park Alliance Foundation, founded in 1991, is a not-for-profit organization formed to receive and administer funds supporting scientific and clinical research, state-of-the-art medical care, and patient-related activities at Roswell Park Cancer Institute. Roswell Park Cancer Institute, founded in 1898, is the nation’s first cancer research, treatment and education center and is the only National Cancer Institute-designated comprehensive cancer center in Upstate New York. RPCI is a member of the prestigious National Comprehensive Cancer Network, an alliance of the nation’s leading cancer centers. Roswell Park has affiliate sites and collaborative programs in New York, Pennsylvania, as well as in New Zealand and China. For more information, visit RPCI’s website at www.roswellpark.org, call 1-877-ASK-RPCI (1-877-275-7724) or e-mail askrpci@roswellpark.org.

Kiss 98.5 is an Entercom Communications Station. Entercom Communications is one of the largest radio broadcasting companies in the United States with a nationwide portfolio of radio stations in 20 markets including Boston, Seattle, Denver, Portland, Sacramento, Kansas City, Indianapolis, Milwaukee, New Orleans, Norfolk, Buffalo, Memphis, Providence, Greensboro, Greenville/Spartanburg, Rochester, Madison, Wichita, Wilkes Barre/Scranton, and Gainesville-Ocala.