Aquidneck Island Charity Golf

30/05/2026

Tomorrow is Camden’s day! The QR code is live!! The link is on this post for your convenience. (Make sure you select ALL ITEMS on the drop down) Take a look at all our silent auction items… bid high and bid often! https://bit.ly/AICG2026?r=qr

23/05/2026

To all our friends out there… We are one week away from our annual golf fundraiser and could use some more raffle and auction items. If you have anything available, please message us. Thank you in advance!

04/02/2026

In the final weeks of her life, as her body weakened and her world narrowed, Carrigan Nelson remained focused on other people — on small acts of care, on unfinished kindnesses, on making sure no …

07/01/2026

Carrigan McCorrie-Raine Nelson, 24 of Portsmouth RI, beloved daughter, sister, niece, advocate, vocalist, avid traveler, dog mom, crafter and artist, passed away peacefully on Christmas Day surrounded by loving family and her compassionate medical team after a 7 year epic battle with Osteosarcoma. A gifted musician, Carrigan had studied voice, piano, and music theory at the Bristol Music Academy.
In 2019 she graduated from the MMVS Contemporary Recording Artists Program. Known as a symbol of hope, positivity, and resilience, our soulful "songbird," volunteered endlessly and performed locally and nationally to entertain and support charitable causes and childhood cancer awareness. In 2020, she proudly sang the National Anthem for the Boston Red Sox Jimmy Fund Radio Telethon. Despite compromised lungs, she continued to sing with the support of her musical partner Steve Rodrigues.
Carrigan, a blackbelt and gold medalist in Taekwondo, and former decade long dancer, earned numerous honors including Beach Idol Winner (2015), Celebration of Music Producer's Choice Winner (2019), Newport NAACP Role Model of the Year (2019), Newport Daily News Youth Leader Award (2020), RI's Honorary Miss Outstanding Teen (2020), and the 2025 RI Communities Choice "Person of the Year” Award.
A nationally recognized childhood cancer advocate, Carrigan passionately lobbied for research funding in Washington, D.C., educated communities on early cancer detection, co-hosted Cure Fest for Childhood Cancer, served on nonprofit boards, and created care packages for teens and young adults fighting cancer.
She donated her tumors to medical research as her final selfless act.
Her hometown of Portsmouth, followed by the RI legislature, honored her legacy by proclaiming February 8 as Carrigan Nelson Day and Cancer Warrior Day.
Carrigan's beautiful legacy lives on through her devoted parents; brother; Aunt Bonnie and Uncle Rodney; Cousin Warren Moniz; extended family; her dachshunds Mr. Toffee and Malibu; her partner and childhood friend Aidan McDonald; dear friends Hannah Nasser, Deaven Piermont, Madison Quinn, Shelby Matthews, Mary Jane (MJ) Milici and countless close friends and chosen family.
A Celebration of Life and Benefit Concert (to establish several scholarships in her memory) will be held Sunday, February 1, from 1:00-5:00 p.m. at the Wyndham Newport Hotel in Middletown, RI. Carrigan encouraged, in lieu of flowers, donations to causes that are dear to her and acts of compassion in her memory. www.memorialfuneralhome.com

https://www.newportri.com/obituaries/ppvp1375550?fbclid=IwZnRzaAPLC75leHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZAo2NjI4NTY4Mzc5AAEeC29k_ugg2jNGnhyUO6J5eGPUgMc-YsHaySyLnCOAzu-VURih3NHpcgE-cQA_aem_kDMZpWzZfrhzJvrls9fTvw

Carrigan McCorrie-Raine Nelson, 24 of Portsmouth RI, beloved daughter, sister, niece, advocate, vocalist, avid traveler, dog mom, crafter and...

27/12/2025

And so we gained a Christmas Angel.

We will miss you and never forger you Carrigan Nelson

24/12/2025

Update on our girl Carrigan from her mother Tammy 🙏🏼💛

💛We remain here at Boston Children’s Hospital. Carrigan’s climb is so much harder now. She struggles with severe air hunger at times and her teams are doing their best to make her comfortable as her cancer progresses. She isn’t awake often or for very long most days but when she is….she is very much Carrigan and she is aware of the continued outpouring of love, the breathtaking sunset pictures you’ve all posted for her, all of those who are praying for her and offering words of encouragement, and the many blessings for she and our family. ✨✨✨✨

💛Carrigan’s room at B*H is adorned with the most beautiful things…her artwork and the artwork we created together, photos, ornaments and meaningful mementos that have been delivered to her room from friends and family near and far. She has gorgeous blankets, homemade cards, many care packages and comfort items, fun Christmas decor and balloons, a Christmas tree, and twinkle lights from her friends. We have her ukulele (gifted to her by Mark and Anne Gorman in 2019) which I play for her often. Thanks for recently having new strings put on the uke Mark!

💛Carrigan also has a new gel memory foam mattress pad and gorgeous floral sheets from Molly Andrade and we have an amazing assortment of snacks and food for our room from the Andrade family, Chris Carceller and family and Heather Daglio.

💛Thanks to my sister Bonnie (our lifeline) for once again holding down the fort back home (and for the incredible slushie machine) and to Aidan for helping care for the dogs. Thanks to all who have provided rides and couriered items back and forth to and from Boston.

💛We appreciate each and every kind gesture. Thanks to all who have donated to a myriad of fundraising efforts on our behalf. We truly appreciate your generosity. We are very grateful to be able to live in her hospital room assisting with her care until she passes. We are so grateful to all who are making this possible for our family during this unimaginable and heartbreaking time.

💛While Carrigan is no longer able to have visitors…she feels very fortunate to have been able to say goodbye to close friends and family in recent weeks. She is aware of all who have stopped by B*H to visit with her and she appreciates your efforts as do we. Unfortunately we are at the point where she is surrounded only by family now as her time here on earth fades.

💛We have had 7 years of very challenging times as Carrigan has fought for her life but we have never once fought alone.

🙏🦋🙏

20/12/2025

Awesome 💪💪

https://www.wpri.com/news/its-good-news/boy-gets-police-es**rt-home-after-cancer-treatment/?fbclid=IwZnRzaAOzShhleHRuA2FlbQExAHNydGMGYXBwX2lkCjY2Mjg1NjgzNzkAAR7iHau6kal9E6gOV7gyCl3zDVKqlKhESDD-RxsjX0HYJqLnGxphiG5MpOX5FA_aem_i0q_5HsFbDjiuKyu_qEvqg

After ringing the bell and marking his last cancer treatment at Hasbro Children’s Hospital on Thursday, Liam Chapman was driven home in a limousine with a police es**rt too.

18/12/2025

Congratulations Liam!!! ❤️

12/12/2025

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12/12/2025

I’ve been sitting with Carrigan’s words over the last day, letting them settle in the way only her strength, honesty, and grace ever could. Her message is a reminder of what courage looks like, even in the most impossible moments. And it also reminds me of something so many of you already know:

For those who have been with us from the very beginning, Co****le for a Cause wasn’t supposed to be a yearly event.
It wasn’t supposed to turn into a tradition, a community, a movement.

It started as Co****le for Carrigan.
A one-time effort.
A way to wrap our arms around a girl who has shown nothing but fight, love, humor, and raw bravery for seven long years.

But Carrigan, in true Carrigan fashion, looked at me and said, “No. Make it annual.”
She pushed me. She believed in what this event could become. She believed in helping others long before she ever stopped needing help herself. And she turned Co****le from a single day of support into something that changes lives every single year.

This year, her message hits differently.
Her strength hits differently.
Her gratitude hits differently.

And as she enters hospice, fighting with every bit of courage she has left, I want this community to remember exactly why Co****le for a Cause exists:

Because of her.
Because of her heart.
Because she taught all of us what it looks like to show up again and again, even when it’s hard, even when it hurts, even when life feels impossible.

Carrigan, you will forever be the reason Co****le became more than a fundraiser.
You built a legacy of compassion and community that will always be a part of all of us.
And we will continue to show up…for you, because of you, and in honor of every person your courage has inspired along the way.

Please keep Carrigan, her family, and her medical team in your thoughts.
And to everyone who has ever donated, played, sponsored, volunteered, or simply stood beside us over these five years…thank you.
You are part of her story, too.

💛 Love you so much C