American Cancer Society Give Hope A Home

A presentation by the American Cancer Society to a group of Scurry County residents was made on Wednesday June 18, 2008 at 10am at the Manhattan Hotel concerning a Hope Lodge to be built in Lubbock, Texas.
Kathy Winn, Director of Distinguished Event Initiatives, indicated that about 50% or 2, 200 cancer patients drive more than 50 miles to Lubbock seeking and receiving "long-term" cancer care which includes 70% of the patients in the Snyder area. Typical cancer treatments last seven weeks requiring over-night accommodations averaging $4,400.
Therefore, the GIVE HOPE A HOME motto has given way to the ACS raising funds and constructing 25 Hope Lodges throughout the United States, none in Texas to date.

What is Hope Lodge? It is a facility providing FREE overnight lodging for adult cancer patients, their caregivers/family while receiving treatment. Fund raising has begun and has been met with much success in Lubbock.
Those in attendance feel that education and awareness about Hope Lodges in the United States is paramount, as they begin efforts to assist with construction and fund raising of Hope Lodge in Lubbock.

Those in attendance were: David R. Griffith, Jack McDonald, Barbara Gowin, Pete Key, Sherry Patterson, Anita Talbott, Terry Martin, Janeen Patterson Eddie Hedges, Paula Hatfield, Jim Shearer, Marianne Randals, Sally Walton, Drew Bullard, Jerry Baird