Project Cupid: Buy Your Valentine for Charity

Project Cupid: Buy Your Valentine (For Charity)!

Posted on February 12, 2012 by Brittany Eagar

Last night was the 3^rd annual Project Cupid event at Estate, an event set up to raise money (almost $20k according to figures released on Sunday) for the Jimmy Fund and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. Project Cupid began in 2009 by founder Amy Blue, after losing her nine year old cousin to a battle with Acute Myeloid Leukemia. Project Cupid is no run of the mill night with raffles and auctions; instead it is a fun, much more exciting take on raising money. It includes a live auction of eligible bachelors and bachelorettes, sports memorabilia, and raffle opportunities. It’s the perfect event for Boston sports fans given all of the auction items: a Paul Pierce autographed jersey, an autographed version of the infamous Bobby Orr photo, Red Sox tickets, and a Patriots package that included an autographed football and tickets to a game.

While the sports-themed auction and raffles gave guests a unique opportunity to take home prizes in the name of helping out a great cause, the best “prizes” of the night came in the form of dates with bachelors and bachelorettes. The most highlighted bachelorette of the night was Boston favorite and Red Sox personality Heidi Watney. The date with Heidi Watney included first row tickets behind home plate to a Red Sox game, and dinner at Jerry Remy’s restaurant and ended up raising $5,500 for the Jimmy Fund and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.

The live auction was hosted by image consultant, Emmi Sorokin from It’s a Man’s World, and Tixlist founder, Christian Galvin. While Heidi may have been the most famous of the night, the emcees, bachelors, and bachelorettes got everyone excited about all of the eligible “prizes”. The emcees were also great at “selling” the bachelors and bachelorettes, making it that much more entertaining to watch. While I literally forgot my wallet at home, if I had my credit card on me I definitely would have been tempted to buy a valentine.

Everyone I spoke to was raving about Project Cupid and a lot of them were telling stories about memories from the years before, as well as bragging about Amy Blue and all of her hard work. The best part of Project Cupid was how obvious it was that everyone involved in the event, and even just at the event, felt very passionate about the night.The energy at Project Cupid was infectious and I walked away impressed and looking forward to attending another Project Cupid event in the future!

While the event is over, if you would like you can still donate to Project Cupid on their website.

Tags: Amy Blue, brittany eagar, Christian Galvin, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Emmi Sorokin, Estate Boston, Heidi Watney, project cupid, The Junmy Fund
Category Baseball, Boston Red Sox, General
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Vintage Athlete Of The Month: Andy Brickley
April 21, 2012 | 11:06 am

Andy Brickley

Andy Brickley’s voice is familiar throughout New England and to those of us out-of-market fans who get the NESN broadcasts via the NHL’s Center Ice package. Brickley is the top TV analyst for Boston Bruins’ hockey games. Most fans know he was a part of Boston’s 1989-90 teams that reached the Stanley Cup Finals. What many fans may not know is how hard Brickley has had to work for everything in his career. To pay tribute to his effort and to acknowledge his tremendous contributions to the culture of Boston Bruins hockey is why he is BST&N’s Vintage Athlete Of The Month for April.

The need to prove himself to skeptics started right away in college. Brickley went to school at New Hampshire, but had to walk on the hockey team. He made the squad and played all four years, from 1979-82. By the end of his career he had made first-team All-American and led New Hampshire to the Frozen Four in his senior year.

Two years into his college career he was selected in the NHL Entry Draft, but by the skin of his teeth—Brickley was the final player chosen in a 210-player draft, going to the Philadelphia Flyers. He began his pro career there in the fall of 1982, but a year later he was traded to Pittsburgh, as part of a package involving multiple players and draft picks.

By rights, this should have been the point when his career took off. He scored 18 goals in 50 games, the highest goal output of his career and also had 12 assists. But he ended up demoted to the minor leagues for the egregious sin of breaking curfew. To put the early 1980s in perspective, this was a time when frequent reports of players’ cocaine addictions were becoming public—in all sports. Seen in that light, the idea of demoting Brickley because he broke curfew seems absurd beyond belief.

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