KHS Boys Basketball - alumni game for Chip Kennett

Chip Kennett was an advocate for cancer research, testifying on Capitol Hill and helping draw more attention to lung cancer, which needs additional funding to develop and bring more treatments to market. (COURTESY PHOTO)

CONWAY — For the first time in more than a decade the Kennett High boys’ basketball program will host an alumni game, and the Eagles are doing it with a purpose in mind. The game, which will pit alumni versus alumni on Tuesday, Dec. 26 (6 p.m. at the Nest), is also a fundraiser in the name of the late Chip Kennett, who died from non-small cell lung cancer in 2015.

Alumni players and the community alike are asked to help meet the program’s goal of $5,000 to go to LUNGevity, the leading private provider of research funding for lung cancer.

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