Bringing Chemo to our Community

As most of you know, one of my mom's hopes for The Crandlemire-Keenleyside Family Legacy Fund is that we would be able to support bringing cancer-related treatment support to Golden.  While our fund is not yet ready to do that, there is a group trying to move this initiative forward now.  Please read on if you're interested in supporting this initiative.

Through the AVIVA Community Fund, my little hometown, Golden BC, is trying to win a competition that would bring funding for trained medical staff to visit our community twice per month to enable them to provide cancer related treatment/services.

Golden is currently in the first qualifying round, where people can register and vote every day until October 15th.

This initiative is very close to my heart as my father has recently passed away from cancer. He suffered from a heart attack after battling lung cancer for a mere six months. During that time my family had to drive three hours (approximately) to the nearest cancer treatment center; often staying overnight at hotels or having to turn around and drive another three hours back home after the treatment. Bringing training to our local hospital so that our nurses and doctors could provide this support/service to residents would impact the lives of so many people in this rural community.

To vote, you have to register (and I apologize for that, I assume it’s to avoid spam voting). You can register with an email address or with your Facebook account which is quick and easy.

Please consider taking a few minutes out of your day to explore this competition and vote to bring Chemo to our Community.

AVIVA voting page:http://www.avivacommunityfund.org/ideas/acf14530?

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Facebook support page: http://www.facebook.com/ChemoInOurCommunity?fref=ts

Thank you,