6/27/2023 0 Comments Care bears wish upon a star movie“I just remember how he just kept talking about Messier like he was his friend,” she said. Christine Burton, the Garden’s director of community relations, met with Matthew in August. Too often a prisoner of his condition, Matthew has watched tapes of Messier winning the Stanley Cup over and over. “Sports celebrity wishes are not uncommon,” said Thomas Conklin of Make-A-Wish Hudson Valley, “but this is the first time we’ve had Messier as a specific wish for our chapter.” The mission at Garden of Dreams is to help children in crisis – children with life-threatening illnesses, impoverished children, foster care kids, victims of abuse. On Christmas Day, it is a good idea to celebrate one of the warmest, sweetest stories of a year that has given us Tim Donaghy, Michael Vick, Adam “Pacman” Jones, Barry Bonds and the Mitchell Report. “So I won’t fall,” Matthew Von Dollen said, and laughed his frequent laugh. “Messier’s holding him so tight,” the boy’s mother, Kathy, said at the MSG Training Center in Greenburgh as she flipped through the scrapbook of this unforgettable night Nov. This was his dream, this was his wish, to meet Messier, everyone’s Captain Courageous, and the Garden of Dreams and the Make-A-Wish Foundation had scored the goal. He waved, and his friend Mark Messier waved along with him. AFTER all the debilitat ing seizures, after the 11 brain operations across his 15 courageous years, Matthew Von Dollen looked down from his suite to a Garden standing and cheering for him.
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