Three Braintree firefighters will be honored for a heroic rescue at the

22nd Annual “Firefighter of the Year” Award Ceremony

DATE: Wednesday, November 30^th, 2011, 12:30 p.m. (doors open at 11:30 a.m.)

NOTICE: All Award Recipients, Honor Guards and Bag Pipers

are requested to arrive at 10:45 a.m. to review the ceremony

LOCATION: The Hanover Theatre for the Performing Arts

2 Southbridge Street (corner of Main Street), Worcester, MA 01608

SEATING: Open seating, no tickets needed, all are welcome

PARKING: Federal Square Parking Garage, 570 Main Street

Pearl-Elm Municipal, 20 Pearl Street

Worcester Public Library, McGrath Lot, 3 Salem Square

Union Station Municipal Garage, 225 Franklin Street

All of the money raised by Braintree police officers and firefighters who skated to a 4-4 tie after a shootout at a Feb. 21 charity hockey game at the Zapustas Arena in Randolph is going to Dr. Giselle Sholler in Burlington, Vermont, who is conducting research to find a cure for neuroblastoma, a particularly deadly pediatric tumor.

The Lacey family of Braintree, whose son Will has been diagnosed with stage IV neuroblastoma, is forwarding the proceeds to Dr. Stoller.

Will, a hockey enthusiast who was diagnosed with neuroblastoma at the age of seven months, is now five years old.

We raised $3,000 that night, and Bob Fatherty from Cops for Kids with Cancer is working on a $5,000 donation which, if it happens, will raise the total to around $8,000, Officer Michael Want said.

Want emphasized that putting the game together was a group effort.

Will's father is a classmate of mine, he said. We graduated together. I attended Will's fundraisers, and I felt that I wanted to do something to help. I saw that Will was taking Learn to Skate lessons, and a bunch of us (police officers and firefighters) play pick-up hockey once a week, so we decided to organize a game between the two departments.

Shane and Owen Kelly, the brothers of Charlotte Kelly, a three-year-old girl from Braintree who also suffers from neuroblastoma, participated in the warm-ups, as did Will.

A fundraiser in honor of Will is scheduled to be held on March 6 at 7:30 p.m. at the Tirrell Room in Quincy featuring live Irish music, dancing, appetizers, desserts, raffles, silent auctions, a disk jockey, and a cash bar. Tickets cost $40. For further information, visit the Cure Me I'm Irish website at www.curemeimirish.org.

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