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By Patrick O’Donnell
Sometimes, the best gift is finding out
that someone else cares.
W hen the someone turns out to be an entire friend, another single mother.” The teenage children
team of hockey players and their significant are living under one roof, and only one of the mothers is
others, that gift counts as a power play. employed, so their income has been stretched to the limit.
Over the holiday season, The Phantoms Family — Coté says the adoption was just one of the group’s
charitable activities.
wives and girlfriends of the Lehigh Valley’s American
“We kicked off the year [2014] with Movember
Hockey League team — swooped in for an assist, awareness, which is pretty big in the hockey world. Two
nights in a row we painted mustaches on all the kids
adopting a needy family for Christmas through the at the rink in Allentown. It was really fun, really cute …
and the kids really enjoyed it. We raised over $1,000 for
Salvation Army. prostate cancer research and awareness.”
18 | INDULGE • FEBRUARY/MARCH 2015 “Each of the guys from the team donated, and we put For their second fundraiser, she says, the women
decorated six Christmas trees for a raffle.
it all in one lump sum and the girls went to Target and
“Some of them were Flyers ornaments, and some of
picked out gifts for the family,” says Ashley Coté, wife of the guys donated their own equipment – hats, gloves,
sweatshirts, for the raffle. Tim Hortons donated gift
Phantoms Assistant Coach Riley Coté. certificates. All the proceeds went to Toys for Tots, and
we raised over $2,000.”
Meganne Murphy, director of emergency family
services for The Salvation Army, Allentown Corps., says
the group’s help made a happier holiday possible.
“This particular family — it’s actually two families — is
made up of a single mother who had to leave her situation;
it was a violent situation. She moved in with her best
Sometimes, the best gift is finding out
that someone else cares.
W hen the someone turns out to be an entire friend, another single mother.” The teenage children
team of hockey players and their significant are living under one roof, and only one of the mothers is
others, that gift counts as a power play. employed, so their income has been stretched to the limit.
Over the holiday season, The Phantoms Family — Coté says the adoption was just one of the group’s
charitable activities.
wives and girlfriends of the Lehigh Valley’s American
“We kicked off the year [2014] with Movember
Hockey League team — swooped in for an assist, awareness, which is pretty big in the hockey world. Two
nights in a row we painted mustaches on all the kids
adopting a needy family for Christmas through the at the rink in Allentown. It was really fun, really cute …
and the kids really enjoyed it. We raised over $1,000 for
Salvation Army. prostate cancer research and awareness.”
18 | INDULGE • FEBRUARY/MARCH 2015 “Each of the guys from the team donated, and we put For their second fundraiser, she says, the women
decorated six Christmas trees for a raffle.
it all in one lump sum and the girls went to Target and
“Some of them were Flyers ornaments, and some of
picked out gifts for the family,” says Ashley Coté, wife of the guys donated their own equipment – hats, gloves,
sweatshirts, for the raffle. Tim Hortons donated gift
Phantoms Assistant Coach Riley Coté. certificates. All the proceeds went to Toys for Tots, and
we raised over $2,000.”
Meganne Murphy, director of emergency family
services for The Salvation Army, Allentown Corps., says
the group’s help made a happier holiday possible.
“This particular family — it’s actually two families — is
made up of a single mother who had to leave her situation;
it was a violent situation. She moved in with her best
