NEW WINDSOR—It’s hard to imagine a more adrenaline-filled game of paintball than to have players shooting from the sky and the ground, which is possibly why for the third year, Independent Helicopters is donating their time and aircraft for a paintball fundraiser for cancer.
It is a normal game except that up to three people are shooting from Independent Helicopter’s Robinson 44 at opponents on the ground. The rides last about five minutes but the game goes on all day, and all the proceeds go to fighting cancer.
CEO and chief pilot of Independent Helicopters, Heather Howley, was approached in 2014 by the upstate Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS) to do the fundraiser, and she raised $16,000 in a regional and national competition to be the LLS Woman of the Year.
LLS Man and Woman of the Year is a title granted to whoever raises the most money for these blood cancers in 10 weeks.
