Sien Bauman and Hannah Schurman, both age 9, recently did their part to raise money to help kids with cancer, after seeing some Penn State students collecting money for cancer research. “Without any prompting from their parents,” Bauman’s mother, Lee Leckey, writes in an email message to Emmaus Patch, “they made signs and hit the streets with cups. They collected $35 pretty quickly.”
Bauman is a fourth-grader at Western Salisbury Elementary School and Schurman is in the fourth grade at in Emmaus. Both girls live in Emmaus.
The Penn State THON is a yearlong effort to raise funds and awareness for the fight against pediatric cancer. Since 1977, THON has raised more than $78 million for The Four Diamonds Fund at Penn State Hershey Children's Hospital. For more information or to donate go to http://www.thon.org/
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--Contributed by Lee Leckey and Danielle Schurman
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