Jersey Mike’s Subs in Lawton is preparing for their upcoming Day of Giving on Wednesday, March 26, and they’ve chosen Comanche County Memorial Hospital’s Foundation as the recipient.
Tyrone Muldowney, the owner of Jersey Mike’s in Lawton, has picked the hospital’s Starlight Unit as the beneficiary around seven times.
“It means a lot,” Muldowney said. “Like I said, the kids need our help. Memorial has devoted a whole wing of the hospital just towards these kids that need our help.”
All of the proceeds from the sales on the last Wednesday of the month will go to the hospital’s foundation, which will then give the funds to the Starlight Unit at the hospital. He said the Day of Giving has resulted in the foundation getting around $70,000.
Sandy Foster with the foundation said they’re planning on using the funds to get a safe haven box, which is a box where babies can be left safely and anonymously if their parents decide they are unable to care for and raise a newborn.
“And then we’re also upgrading and increasing the equipment that goes at a baby’s bedside,” Foster said. “So, we’re purchasing some baby monitors and then you have to purchase the monitor that goes to the nurse’s station, so that’s going to be the upgrade we do this year for the Starlight Unit.”
Foster said it’s amazing to see how many people go to the sub shop and support the cause.
“It makes your heart sing,” she said. “It makes your heart smile, for lack of a better word, because you get to see people can’t always do this, but here’s this that they can do, and it’s another way for them to get out, participate and be able to say, ‘hey, I’m making a difference for the kids in Southwest Oklahoma.‘”
Muldowney is also doing a month of giving, so if people choose to donate any day during the month, they can get a free drink or sub.
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