PUTTING FOR A CURE: CELEBRITY DUO SAYS THEY WILL KEEP COMING BACK TO COUNCIL BLUFFS
The Daily Nonpareil
September 28, 2002
By Tim Johnson
“It’s about helping people,” actor Alan Rosenberg said Saturday night during a celebrity dinner at Dodge Riverside Golf Club’s Riverside Grille, 2 Harrah’s Blvd.
The event was part of Marg and Alan’s Celebrity Weekend, a fund raiser for the Jennie Edmundson Hospital Cancer Center.
“We love you all, and we’re going to keep coming back,” Rosenberg said.
Why do celebrities like Rosenberg, cast member on the CBS drama The Guardian, and his wife, Marg Helgenberger, who stars in the popular CBS series CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, come to Council Bluffs every year to help raise money for the cancer center?
Maybe because cancer is universal: It can affect anyone at any time – and it has affected them.
Helgenberger’s mother, Kay Snyder of Omaha, fought her own battle with breast cancer 22 years ago – and won. She is now a proud survivor.
Saturday night, Helgenberger, a native of North Bend, Neb., remembered her mother’s struggle once again.
“It was a very confusing time, because I was a young adult – I was in college,” she said. “I couldn’t help but think, ‘is she going to make it through this?'”
Having a loved one with cancer was one factor that led Helgenberger to join the fight against it.
“Being involved in the cause now makes me look back and remember how that brought us all together,” she said. “It challenged us.”
Now, Helgenberger and her husband are sharing their success with a Council Bluffs hospital.
“We always have a wonderful time,” she said. “It’s a wonderful event. It’s been an opportunity to get together with friends, get together with family.”
The Celebrity Weekend continues today with the second round of the golf tournament, which is open to spectators. Celebrities will swing into action at 9 a.m. and wrap up at approximately 2:30 p.m. at Dodge Riverside Golf Club.