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Lynne Fruth, CEO of Fruth Pharmacy, donated vitamins to all Cabell elementary schools.
Fruth donates vitamins to schools By Amanda Smythers amanda@theputnamstandard.com
Fruth Pharmacy and Cabell County Schools have teamed up to provide all Cabell elementary school students with free vitamins. The program kicked off at Guyandotte Elementary School on Sept. 24. It allows students in all 18 of Cabell’s elementary schools to use a punch card to receive a monthly supply of chewable vitamins from Fruth Pharmacy locations. “We provide each of the children in the schools a 12 month punch card,” said Lynn Fruth, CEO of Fruth Pharmacy. “They bring it in and there’s no purchase required. There’s no cost to the school and no cost to the parents.” Fruth said kids at Guyandotte were excited about the cards. “We enjoy going out every year and getting that kickoff,” she said. “We tell them to think this is like your vitamin credit card except See Vitamins, Page 7
Maggie’s fairy tale birthday By Amanda Smythers amanda@theputnamstandard.com
Maggie Holton celebrated her birthday in style last week as dozens of local residents came out to Barboursville Park. The party was magical, helping lift Maggie’s spirits and raise money for her upcoming chemotherapy treatments. Maggie was recently diagnosed with neuroblastoma, a rare childhood cancer. Maggie’s mom, Kim Holton, said the diagnosis came a month before Maggie’s fourth birthday. “She has a tumor around her adrenal gland on her left side,” Holton said. “Before the diagnosis, Maggie was never unhealthy. She had never been sick. “We were on vacation at the beach and she got a fever she couldn’t get rid of- it ended up being the cancer.” Maggie, who is currently undergoing her second round of chemotherapy, didn’t let her diagnosis ruin her birthday. Dressed up as a princess with a coned hat to match, she and her friends danced the night away on the amphitheater stage. “She’s doing really well,” Holton said. “You wouldn’t
really know she was sick. She’s so happy.” Maggie has a tough few months ahead of her. She will undergo a total of five rounds of chemotherapy as well as a major surgery to remove the tumor. A bone marrow transplant is currently scheduled for December. These costly procedures are what caused local friend Annette Campbell to contact redbasket.org, a fundraising website hosted by Woodmen of the World. “Her story is published on red basket,” said Tammy Bennett, red basket coordinator for West Virginia and Ohio. “It’s a charitable donation site. One hundred percent of all donations on this site go directly to the person you want it to go to. We pay all the administrative fees.” Bennett said that, given how close it was to Maggie’s birthday, it was a perfect excuse to get the community out in her honor and to show them how they could support her during this difficult time. Although Bennett expected a successful event, she didn’t expect it to be so easy. Kelly Tyda, dressed as Cinderella, smiles with Maggie Holton, a four-yearold with neuroblastoma. Maggie celebrated her birthday with a princess See Maggie, Page 6 themed party and benefit at Barboursville Park.
Cabell Midland Knights ruin Hurricane’s homecoming By TraceJohns on For The Cabell Standard Coming off an emotional win over rival Huntington the week before, some thought a letdown was a real possibility for Cabell Midland heading into its game with the Hurricane Redskins. But that proved to be the furthest thing from the truth and the Knights followed up that big victory by rolling Hurricane 56-31 Friday night. “You worry about that as a
coach because that’s your job to get them ready to play each and every week, so I think they played well,” MIdland coach Luke Salmons said. As they have done consistently throughout the season, the Knights ran the ball extremely well, amassing 525 rushing yards on the night. That included 215 yards from senior Alex Childers and 127 yards from junior Caperton Humphrey. “The freshness of playing everybody one way was just relentless and they did really good in just taking over,” Salmons said. “It
was a physical game last week and it was a physical game this week and in the conference we play in it’s going to be like that.” Down 3-0, the Knights (5-0) got on the scoreboard in a big way as junior running back Jacob Hendricks found the end zone from 55 yards out to give Midland a 7-3 See Football, Page 12 Midland senior Alex Childers (24) rushed for 215 yards in the game against Hurricane. Photo by Roman Bryson.