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Flying Magazine Raffle Winner Donates Proceeds to Corporate Angel Network

Flies Cancer Patient home from Treatment a Few Days Later

White Plains NY, (Immediate)—This year’s winner of the FLYING Magazine Raffle, Greg Cook of Makanda, IL, donated his winnings, a Dodge Dakota pickup truck and a Bombardier Recreation Products, Sea-Doo RXT Watercraft, to Corporate Angel Network (CAN), the national public charity that partners with corporations and fractional owners to transport cancer patients to treatment using empty seats on routine corporate flights. A few days later, he flew a cancer patient home to New York from treatment in Dallas in his company aircraft.

“I’ve thought about the raffle quite a bit this week and have decided to donate the proceeds back to the Corporate Angle Network” said Greg Cook, a cancer survivor whose company, Cook Sales, Inc. participates in CAN. “When I bought the raffle ticket at NBAA, as I have for several years now, it was for one reason, to support this wonderful organization. I hope the savings provided will help CAN continue to grow and to help others. I, personally, am a 23 year cancer survivor of stage 2a Hodgkin's, diagnosed on December 22, 1982, which also happens to be my wedding anniversary” continued Cook. “On December 22, 2005, I flew a CAN patient from Dallas to New York. I can think of no better way to celebrate that day.”

“There are two areas where we always need assistance,” said CAN’s Executive Director, Peter Fleiss: “funding, and additional lift capacity. Greg managed to hit on both areas within one week’s time. Greg’s support, combined with others in the aviation community, is instrumental in our ability to continue to help cancer patients. We are extremely grateful.”

Corporate Angel Network arranges free flights for cancer patients using the empty seats on corporate aircraft. Since its founding nearly 25 years ago, CAN has grown to include 530 participating corporations, five paid staff, and a team of 50 part-time volunteers who work with patients, physicians, corporate flight departments, and leading treatment centers to coordinate medical travel needs of cancer patients with the scheduled flight activity of participating corporations. To date, CAN has arranged more than 22,000 flights and currently provides about 200 patient flights a month. CAN has received numerous awards in recognition of its service to cancer patients, including The Volunteer Action Award, the highest volunteer award from the President of the United States. For more information please call Corporate Angel Network at (914) 328-1313 or visit www.CorpAngelNetwork.org . Photo Caption: Greg Cook (R), a cancer survivor, stands with Wendy Brantley (L), a cancer patient and actor living in New York and receiving treatment in Dallas, in front of Cook’s company jet after their December 22, 2005 Corporate Angel Network flight from Dallas to JFK. The date marked the 23rd anniversary of Cook’s Hodgkin’s diagnosis. About the flight Cook said, “I can think of no better way to celebrate that day.”

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