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Boo Radley concert to raise funds for good cause
Versailles Towne and Country Players’ annual Summer Entertainment
Series includes many opportunities to enjoy good music, but when
Cincinnati-based band Boo Radley takes the stage for their performances
on Versailles’ inviting Main Street Fountain Square on Saturday, July
6, they will also challenge their audience the help raise funds to find
a cure for pancreatic cancer. Boo Radley, consisting of lead vocalists
Mark Hamilton and Stacy Jordan, plus Chris Mulvaney and Mark Roden on
guitar, drummer Jerry Cline, and John Kellington playing bass, has been
on the scene for over ten years, playing at high-profile venues in the
Cincinnati area and beyond. Now, lead guitarist Chris Mulvaney, a 1981
Versailles High School graduate, has established a partnership with the
Pancreatic Cancer Action Network to host a fund raising campaign
combating the disease which took the lives of both his father and
mother, longtime Versailles residents Jerry and Jane Mulvaney.
Chris and his sisters Erin Marshall, Elizabeth Alexander, Teri Shuler,
and Deb Gallagher are hoping to involve the greater community in this
drive, and have enlisted the support of other families who have been
impacted by pancreatic cancer, including Chris’s classmates Brenda
Bohman Rice who lost her father Fred to the feared disease, and Mike
Prakel, who in honor of another victim, his father Stewart has issued a
special challenge to the VHS Class of 1981, to make contributions which
anonymous donors will match up to $500, achieving a significant first
step in reaching the campaign’s goal of $2500. Also the families of
Scott Shappie, VHS Class of 1978, and Vaughn Wakefield are
participating in this effort to fight the scourge which has
disastrously affected so many community members.
“We are banding together to raise money for a great cause, and hope to
see you on the square in Versailles on July 6; you will be supporting
efforts to double survival for this deadly disease by 2020,” explained
Mr. Mulvaney. Currently, only 8% of pancreatic cancer patients survive
their battle with the dread disease. Donations to this campaign against
pancreatic cancer can be made by visiting the Boo Radley for Pancreatic
Cancer Research page on the support.pancan.org
Website:http://support.pancan.org/site/TR/DIY/DIYTeamraisers?team_id=21103&pg=team&fr_id=1850.
Contributions can also be made at the concert.
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