June 10, 2009

Football: Coach Jon Heacock to Participate in Crane Fundraiser

    Youngstown – Youngstown State head football coach Jon Heacock will take part in the Ohio Valley Teen Challenge's Crane Fundraiser this Friday from 4-5 p.m. in the parking lot of the Boardman Chick-fil-A. Heacock will spend one hour in a crane perched six stories off the ground to help raise money for the organization's Men's Residential Center.

    The annual crane fundraiser is a 24-hour event that starts on Friday, June 12 at 1 p.m. Heacock will join Pastor Roy Barnett, Pastor Kevin Rauch, staff and board members and various local celebrities in being raised 60 feet in the crane. The fundraiser also features corn hole tournaments, live music, concessions and a prayer tent.

    Sponsorships are available for $4 per minute or various time allotments -- five, 10, 15, 30, 60 or 100 -- have been created. Funds raised at the event will help offset start up costs of a new residential men's center.

    The Ohio Valley Teen Challenge was created to help people become mentally sound, emotionally balanced, socially adjusted, physically well and spiritually alive; and to develop a spiritual foundation on which to build healthy relationships with their family, church, career and local community.

    Teen Challenge has been reaching out to men, women and children in the Youngstown community for more than 25 years as a crisis and referral center. On March 16, the OVTC Men's Residential Center opened in the former Cafaro/Youngstown Osteopathic Hospital on the city's north side.

    For more information or to become a crane fundraiser sponsor, contact Pastor Rauch at (330) 743-9030 or tcrambo@yahoo.com