Revell Ford Raises $6,000 For Cancer Centre

Jeff Green | Feb 12, 2014

Early in 2013, Noel Bateman, who had been a salesman at Revell Ford in Verona for only a few months, made a proposition to Larry Revell, manager of the family-owned dealership.

“I suggested that I would donate $12.50 for each vehicle I sold to the Cancer Centre at Kingston General Hospital. And Larry took the idea and ran with it,” Bateman said.

Revell’s matched Noel Bateman’s contribution, and on top of that they committed to donating $1 for every service call at their busy service centre.

Even though Revell’s was undergoing renovations all through 2013, the combined efforts of the sales and service staff, when tallied at the end of the year, came to $6,000.

Last week, Shawn Cerisano (Senior Development Officer and Denise Cumming (Executive Director) of the University Hospitals Kingston Foundation, came by Revell’s to pick up the cheque. The foundation, which was formed in 2005, is the joint fundraising arm of Kingston General (KGH), Hotel Dieu and Providence Continuing Care Hospitals in Kingston.

The donation by Revell’s Cars for Cancer Care initiative will be going directly to the Cancer Care Centre of Southeastern Ontario, which is located at KGH.

“This was a great idea of Noel’s, and we were happy to get involved. It was really his doing,” said Larry Revell.

“It was pretty easy to do,” Noel Bateman said, “and in the end I didn’t donate nearly as much as the dealership did.”