VUHS raises funds for cancer patient
Posted on October 15, 2012 |
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SENIORS FROM VERGENNES Union High School spent three days walking 17.6 miles to Mount Philo to raise money for a woman being treated for a rare form of cancer. Below, teacher Lee Shorey, with $3,000 check, discuses the students’ efforts with, from left, Nick Richer, T.J. Simpson and Kaitlyn Leroux-ÂEastman.
Photo by Kristine Kirkaldy
VERGENNES — The annual Vergennes Union High School senior class fall charity walk-a-thon, which concluded atop Mount Philo on Oct. 9, raised more than $3,000 to help an Athens, Ga., resident with connections to Vermont in her battle with a rare form of bone cancer.
Keri Kinsel, 27, was diagnosed with Ewing’s sarcoma in January, and has undergone treatments since then. Doctors at the nonprofit Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa, Fla., say that a bone marrow treatment more common in Europe will help prevent the cancer from returning to Kinsel.