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Family raising money to benefit charities

July 2, 2008

By CATHRYN GRAN cgran@pioneerlocal.com

Jackson Pape is one of the lucky ones.

The son of Jeff Pape, member of the Franklin Park Rotary and the Franklin Park/Schiller Park Chamber of Commerce, benefited from an operation to fix a cleft lip.

“You wouldn’t notice it now, but when Jackson was a year old, he had a fat lip,” Pape said.

“But the scar has healed. It’s hard to notice.”

Jackson is 4 years old.

Through the newly-founded Pape Foundation, Pape wants to help more children.

The Pape Foundation golf outing will be held July 29 at White Pines Golf Course, 500 W. Jefferson Ave. in Bensenville. Proceeds will benefit the Smile Train.

“We learned about the organization from Jackson’s doctor,” Pape said. “The Smile Train operates on the ‘teach a man to fish’ theory,” Pape explained.

“They give instruction to local doctors who then go to the patients. These are families without means of transportation.”

“We were lucky,” Pape said.

“My wife, Nancy, was working for a Fortune 500 company so we had good insurance. All we had to pay was the deductible.”

That surgery can cost thousands of dollars.

The Smile Train is a nonprofit organization that provides services and programs in more than 60 countries, including the United States, and has helped provide free surgery for thousands of children as well as free training and education for more than 15,000 surgeons and medical professionals, according to information provided by the organization.

The Pape Foundation is working to improve that number through its golf outing.

Also benefiting from the foundation’s first event will be the Illinois chapter, National Wrestling Hall of Fame.

Pape, who owns a wrestling gear company, also sponsors wrestling clinics for area youth.

“Our committee of about 10 people have been working hard to put together our first event,” Pape said.

“The golf outing is coming together nicely with lots of raffle prizes and goodie bag items.”

The fee is $125 per golfer if registered by July 15 and $150 after that date.

“Some of our top raffle prizes include a barbecue package — complete with a Smokey Joe, small table, and barbecue equipment,” he said, “or a complete ice cream-making system.”

Visit http://www.thepapefoundation.org/ for more information