WHILE COVID-19 is dominating the news these days, and rightly so, having lost my brother Steve 12 years ago to glioblastoma multiforme, a brain cancer that also claimed the lives of Sens. Teddy Kennedy and John McCain and so many others, including Jen Hill, after whom Jen’s Friends is named, I’d like to start this week’s column with a message from Dylan Henry, son of local artist Carol Cyr Hanson’s sister Elizabeth Cyr, who lost her life to the disease in late winter.
To honor the help Jen’s Friends gave his mom, Dylan is holding a fundraising campaign in her name to benefit the local cancer-fighting organization that currently assists 75 families in the Mount Washington Valley.
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