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Palatine Panthers grant 'small miracle' for teen

Posted November 04, 2009 10:00 pm

A Palatine Panthers (PAFA) boys football team performed a small miracle for Luke Strotman of Deerfield, a 14-year-old battling neural blastoma cancer and leukemia. The team collected money and purchased many gift-basket items for Strotman, an avid Chicago Bears fan, to take with him to the Bears-Packers game in Green Bay.

Gift basket items included an autographed Jay Cutler football, Cutler jersey, digital camera, trading cards, tailgating items and a gift card for food and gas for the trip to Lambeau Field. The PAFA team, led by head coach Matt Panzino, presented the gift basket to Strotman at one of the team's practice sessions.

The team connected with Strotman through the Bear Necessities Pediatric Cancer Foundation, a national organization whose mission is to eliminate pediatric cancer and to provide hope and support to those who are touched by it.

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