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KINDNESS COUNTS
Central New York blossoms generosity and miracles By Farah Jadran
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ecently, I had the incredible honor of being a part of Upstate Golisano Children’s Hospital Radiothon for Kids. It is an annual two-day TV and radio effort to raise money for the children’s unit. This year, it is also aimed at funding a new special needs care unit on the Upstate campus. During the 17th annual Radiothon, I was on the air for CNYCentral giving live reports from Upstate on CBS 5 and NBC 3. We received calls from people all across the region from people willing to give to a cause that helps all children in our community. It was amazing to see people’s On top of that beautiful wave of generosity in all forms whether it was generosity, which helped raise more than through volunteering to answer phones $250,000, there are the miracles I want to or donating $10 or $1,000.
share with you. The lives touched by giving hearts in our community are amazing. Leading up to Radiothon, I sat down with three girls receiving care at Golisano. They are beautiful, bright and bold young ladies who have so much to give back as they fight for their lives. Four-year-old Rosie spent her recent birthday in a chemotherapy chair. Her smile melts your heart and her dreams of becoming both a police officer and a doctor show you just how important it is for her to beat rhabdomyosarcoma, a cancer that causes tumors to grow in her soft tissue. Then, there is 17-year-old Erma, who spent much of her senior year of high school receiving treatment for blood cancer.
April 2020
Women in Business Edition
