Making Wishes Come True
Atlanta Falcons players Michael Turner, Harry Douglas, Alex Stepanovich and Jason Rader attended a dinner on Wednesday, June 10 hosted by United Healthcare of Georgia and the Make-A-Wish Foundation of Georgia/Alabama for a local Make-A-Wish child named Jake Weaver. The dinner hosted at Atlanta’s ESPN Zone, celebrated Jake and his family’s return from Jake’s wish, which was a vacation to the Virgin Islands. The trip which was paid for by United Healthcare of Georgia and gave the family some much needed vacation time.
The players ate dinner with Jake and had the opportunity to play video games with him.
“Jake’s got a great attitude about him,” Michael Turner said. “I’m glad we got an opportunity to come out here and spend some time with him and his family tonight. He’s definitely got some skills on some of these video games.”
Jake has been battling bone cancer for the past couple of years.
