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Show Man who lost sons to cancer makes donation to help Brent The owner of a local firm who lost two sons to cancer joined with his employees to donate $3,580 in cash to a fund to help a cancer-stricken boy in his fight for life, and has given a $9,900 one-week timeshare to the family to auction off for the child. The employees of the Park Plaza timeshare in Prospector Square each donated their Christmas bonuses to Brent Bloomenthal, who Dec. 4 underwent under-went an experimental bone-marrow bone-marrow transplant to treat his neuroblastoma form of cancer. ;(. (auon lo Those bonuses totaled. $1,080 ; and the Park Plaza's parent com-u pany, Glenlvy Resorts, of, Utah; donated another $2,000. ) .lib t o eic Company president ,Balph X Mann who lost two r. sons tft j leukemia personally donated ij $500 to the cause. The one-week; f "prime-time" timeshare at the! I Park Plaza will be auctioned off sometime in the next few months,; said project manager David Jo DiBerardino. , ) r.nhdj The check for $3,580 was given: , to Brent's half-brother, , Russ $: Mathews, during a Dec. 18 office ". Christmas party. With the check, Hi to he was given a letter from Mann, . which said, in part : i "Brent's brave fight is a situa-; situa-; v tion that has had a profound im-0 im-0 pact on the people of Park City, z and as members of this com- munity, we too have been touched . deeply," Mann wrote. ;0 "On a personal level, my fami-y fami-y ly has known the tragedy of cancer. I lost two sons to ((i leukemia. The sadness of those losses, however, strengthened ij my resolve to be an active par-lt par-lt ticipant in the fight against the :ij disease. These donations are a t- part of that fight." j |