Bourque Family Foundation To Host 4th Annual Captain’s Ball In Boston

BOSTON (WBZ NewsRadio) — Late Ice Bucket Challenge co-creator Pete Frates will be honored at the 4th annual Captain’s Ball in Boston Thursday.

The event will be hosted by the Bourque Family Foundation, which is led by former professional hockey player Ray Bourque. Bourque played for the Boston Bruins from 1979 to 2000.

“This event is a big one for us,” Bourque said. “It’s been great. I played 22 years with the Bruins and I learned pretty early that it’s really important to get involved in [the] community and give back.”

Part of the proceeds from the event will go to the Pete Frates Foundation, which is named after the former Boston College baseball captain who died in 2019 after a years-long battle with ALS. According to its website, the foundation has helped raise $220 million for ALS research through the viral Ice Bucket Challenge.

The 4th annual Captain’s Ball is at 7 p.m. on Thursday at Boston University’s Agganis Arena. The event will feature auctions, live music, food and more. Attendees must purchase tickets here.

WBZ NewsRadio’s Drew Moholland (@DrewWBZ) reports.

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Gov. Maura Healey has been applying a full-court press to pass a $400 million bill aimed at strengthening Massachusetts’ research and innovation economy, but lawmakers have left the governor’s plans for a "transformative investment" idling in the seven weeks since Healey proposed it.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>Healey’s Discovery, Research and Innovation for a Vibrant Economy (DRIVE) bill aims to attract private investment and preserve research jobs. With federal funding drying up for hospitals and higher education institutions, the administration argues the state must step in to maintain its competitive edge.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>After filing the legislation (\u003ca href=\”https://malegislature.gov/Bills/194/H4375\” target=\”_blank\”>H 4375\u003c/a>) on July 31, just as lawmakers were departing Beacon Hill for a weeks-long summer recess, Healey held a press conference at UMass Memorial Health in Worcester this month about the "incredibly important piece of legislation." Last week, she convened the first meeting of her high-powered DRIVE Acceleration Team task force led by the state Federal Funds and Infrastructure Director Quentin Palfrey. \u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>Asked in Worcester about when she wants the legislation back to her desk, Healey said, "As soon as possible. I mean, we need this to happen. We need this to happen now."\u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>"This is a top priority for me," Healey told reporters at the State House last week after a meeting of the \u003ca href=\”https://www.mass.gov/news/governor-healey-announces-drive-acceleration-team-members-to-advance-research-and-discovery-in-massachusetts\” target=\”_blank\”>task force\u003c/a>, whose members constitute a collective who’s who of top business, health care and higher education officials including former Centers for Disease Control Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>While Healey has been publicly promoting her plan, the bill has not been scheduled for its legislative debut: a public hearing before the Joint Committee on Economic Development and Emerging Technologies.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>“It is a bill that will be scheduled, I do not have a date yet,” said Rep. Carole Fiola, the House chair of the committee. Fiola noted the bill arrived in August, adding, "We have a schedule of bills right now."\u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>Fiola said the administration reached out to her in mid-September, and they’re planning to meet in the coming weeks to discuss the proposal. She emphasized that bills already scheduled for hearings will take precedence.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>"I guess there’s been quite a bit of publicity trying to be generated about it, but I think we’re going to follow the process that we do as a Legislature," she said.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>Healey says the DRIVE bill is critically important at a time when the Trump administration is defunding medical research — vital for both health care and the state’s economy.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>"This isn’t just about filling gaps left by what has been devastating cuts at the federal level. This is actually about designing something that will continue to be a catalytic engine for our state," Healey said at the press conference in Worcester. "The federal administration is not helping us right now, because they don’t understand the value of science, the value of research, because they’ve continued to defund medical research right now and do other things that undermine public health, in my view. But in Massachusetts, we’re going to move forward."\u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>Healey created the task force with an Aug. 1 executive order and during their first meeting she urged the group to "move this forward and get this both passed, and also, importantly, implemented, operationalized, as quickly as possible. Time is of the essence."\u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>Sen. Barry Finegold, the other chair of the committee who controls the fate of the DRIVE bill, seemed to share some of the governor’s urgency.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>"We are very much looking forward to the hearing coming up and learning more about the bill, with everything happening on the federal level we need to be on the offensive as a state," he said in a statement to the News Service.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>Fiola said she understands research and life sciences are big economic engines for the state, and needs to learn more about the bill.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>"Let’s take a breath and understand just what the numbers are. Where is the need? What is the best way to approach it? That is how we deliberatively work as a body," she said. "There are a lot of important pressing needs: energy costs, all these federal implications of federal cutbacks. So we’re looking at all of it."\u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>The committee is holding a hearing on about a dozen bills Thursday, but Healey’s bill is not on the agenda.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>Reps. Jeff Roy and Ann-Margaret Ferrante were present at last week’s DRIVE Initiative meeting. Healey acknowledged Finegold’s absence but noted his support. She did not mention Fiola in her opening remarks.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>Brooke Thomson, president and CEO of Associated Industries of Massachusetts and a member of the DRIVE Initiative, said the bill is drawing attention from the business community.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>"I was over at Biogen yesterday, they had a groundbreaking of their new headquarters," she said. 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