Kevin Edmonds and "A Love for Life" Fund at Penn Presbyterian Oncology
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We will use Omi's Potato Salad recipe!
   
Fundraising goal $12,000.00
Best of Times/ Wurst of Times!

It's The Best of Times/ The Wurst of Times.
DIBRUNO BROTHERS has made this one of our most successful community events.

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 3rd at 5pm
RAIN DATE: SUNDAY, OCTOBER 4th at 5pm

$85 a person- all food & drink

101 Liberty Street
Newtown PA 18940

FREE PARKING: Please park in the United Methodist Church parking lot, right next door at 35 Liberty Street.

Want to join us? Just donate $85 or more per ticket on this Penn Giving Page- 100% will go to our dedicated researchers and is 100% tax deductible.

Anyone who as ever joined us at Randy & Nancy's beautiful Newtown Borough property knows that it is the most FUN fundraiser of the year.

Lederhosen and Dirndls and checked shirts are encouraged but definitely not required.

Your donation will help us inch closer to a cure.
If you cannot attend our party but still want to support our efforts, just donate on this page or on our website www.aloveforlife.us.

Every dollar donated will help improve the odds for cancer patients.

Our 2026 SPONSORS

DI BRUNO BROS Bratwurst + Wieners + Sea Salt Crostini
MAMIE COLETTE European-style sourdough bread loaves
The Restaurant Store
Newtown Hardware House German Chocolate Chip Cookies
Mustard
Fresh Horseradish
Sauerkraut
Omi's Kartoffelsalat
Green salad
Pretzel Factory Heart Pretzels
Sara's Linzer Augen
HARIBO Gummy Bears
TM Kovacevich Phila PA Produce


100% of your donation funds pancreatic cancer research at Penn

Questions? christine@aloveforlife.us

A Love for Life
We are dedicated to funding pancreatic cancer research at Penn and improving outcomes for those who are facing this challenge now. Learn more about our organization at www.aloveforlife.us

There are limited tickets available so don't delay- we always sell out!

SPECIAL THANKS TO DI BRUNO BROS.
Their generosity allowed us to raise over $22,000 last year.






THANK YOU TO OUR SPONSORS
We donate 100% of the ticket price- when you click on this page's DONATE link, your donation will go directly to Penn's pancreatic cancer research team. We are so grateful to those who are donating product to help us keep our overhead low!

  • DiBruno Brothers
  • Newtown Hardware House
  • Philly Pretzel Factory
  • HARIBO
  • Mamie Colette Bread
  • T.M. Kovacevich Wholesale Fruit & Produce
Event details
The Best of Times/ the Wurst of Times
10/03/2026 05:00 PM
Bier, Brats and Kraut! Food & Friends is what it's all about. RAINDATE: Sunday 10/4/25 at 5pm
Donate to participate!
Donation messages
See you soon! --Anne + Jack + Liam McKernan
Prost --Rose and Bucky
we all look forward to this fun event! --Frank and Cindy Flynn and guests
Hope to see y'all tomorrow! --Skip Millard
BRATWURST :) --Cody Mitchell
Love that potato salad! --Sam Messina
see you tomorrow :) --Ben Albucker
Wish we could be there. Have a blessed evening, --Mrs. Mary Jo Garner
Prosit! --Nancy and Brad Levie
Looking forward to this! --Brailsford & guests
Hope to see you! --Amy and Andy Smith
We will be with you in spirit! Have a wonderful event. --Regina Keating
Keep up the great work; thank you! --Stephen Williams
Bis Samstag! --John McDowell and David Fierabend
Save me a Bratwurst! --Patrick Pop Pop Edmonds
See you Saturday! --Kathryn Schafer
See you Saturday- Happy to grill :) --Becky and Bobby Gilanyi
Ready to Grill! --Cassie Cook and Sean Edmonds
Can't wait to see you all! --In memory of Donald M. Bolle
My cousin is alive thanks to the advances in pancreatic cancer research, and I look forward to having fun for such a great cause! --Jennifer Oglesby
In memory of Phillip Bosakowski --Dr. Rosemary Harris
See you Saturday mom :) --Harry & Adrienne Edmonds
See you Samstag!!! --George Franqui and Lenore Monteperto
Ich kann es kaum erwarten zu feiern! --Mary Ann Nolan
Coming from Brooklyn-can't wait!! --Bill Sweeney and Andrea Vecchio and Ella
In hoor of my dad, Frank McCarty :-) --Amy L Fasullo
Looking forward to it --Mrs. Kim Cosack
It's time for another Oktoberfest! --Dave and Dixie Scurlock
Through Love for Life, you are turning your heart, courage, and compassion into action that helps everyone affected by pancreatic cancer. You give voice to those fighting, support their families, honor those we've lost, and bring hope to so many. Your determination to find a cure is truly inspiring. Christine, your love creates hope, your voice raises awareness, and the years of work you and your team of mostly volunteers have done have brought about immense change and progress. I am so incredibly proud to call you my friend, and I will always stand beside you and support you in all that you dream up. So looking forward to this. #LoveForLife #PancreaticCancerAwareness #HopeForACure --Sheena A. Bediako, Esquire
Bringing the best Bread :) --Isabelle and Mags
Happy to donate from TMK Produce! --Tom Kovacevich
Keep up the good work! --Mark Frey
1 Ticket please --Jane Scopelite
1 Ticket for Oktoberfest! --Mary Gonzalez
Prost! --Dr. Kati sowiak
Prost für den guten Zweck! --Suzanne and Joerg Raschhofer
Always a fun evening!! --Mary Dinneen and Barry Fleck
Farfegnugen! --Dr. Lee Ann Fancher
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