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Holiday Inn’s Founding Family and Orange Lake Resorts Pledge $500,000
Toward Development of Give Kids The World’s Town Hall Building
A Pledge to the Capital Expansion Project
to Enhance Hospitality Services for Children
with Life-Threatening Illnesses
Kissimmee, FL (August 19, 2013) – The
children of Holiday Inn founder, Kemmons
Wilson, along with their company, Orlandobased Orange Lake Resorts, have pledged
$500,000 to Give Kids The World’s fiveyear, $120 million Capital Expansion and
Improvement Campaign. Their gift will go
toward the construction of a new Town Hall,
which will expand Give Kids The World’s
(GKTW) hospitality services. The nonprofit
resort in Kissimmee provides children with
life-threatening illnesses and their families
once-in-a-lifetime dream vacations.
The Wilson Family has been long associated
with GKTW’s founder, Henri Landwirth,
since the 1960s when Kemmons first met
Henri, who was the General Manager of the
Holiday Inn in Cape Canaveral (Kennedy
Space Center). Their friendship continued; and later, with encouragement from
Kemmons, Henri became a Holiday Inn®
franchise owner by opening the Holiday Inn
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