OTTAWA — If you could sit down to dinner with someone famous who would it be? If your answer is Ottawa Senators centre Mike Fisher and/or his country-singing wife, Carrie Underwood, then check this out: the couple has volunteered to be dinner dates with the highest bidder at a charity event happening Tuesday.The opening bid is $7,500.
The fundraiser is being held by brothers Richard and Robert Valente, owners of Fratelli restaurant. The $150-a-ticket night is taking place at their Kanata location on Terry Fox Drive and will raise money for the Ottawa Senators Foundation’s charity of choice, the Roger’s House pediatric palliative care facility, as well as Candlelighters Childhood Cancer Support Programs.
Fisher has been a loyal customer and good friend over the past decade, Richard Valente said. The hockey star is also honorary chairman of Roger’s House.
“Anytime I do something (charitable), I call him and he’s quick to say ‘Yes’,” said Valente. “This time he said, for the first time ever, ‘Throw in a dinner with me and Carrie’.”
