Family friendly event to raise funds to support a cure for a rare disease
Mark your calendars for May 5th and plan to come out to the Bourbon County 4-H Building, from 11 A.M. until 2. P. M. to help raise funds to cure Cystic Fibrosis. The day’s events are tentatively scheduled to include a bounce house, face painting, homemade sugar cookies, and a grilled hotdog, pop and chips lunch, available for a free will donation.
Cystic fibrosis is a rare, non-contagious, genetic disease that, most noticeably, effects the lungs. The median age for an individual with Cystic Fibrosis (CF) is around 40 years old, but this age rapidly continues to increase with advances in medical science.
In and around the surrounding area, at least four people are affected by Cystic fibrosis, with ages ranging from a young toddler, to a teenager, to someone in their early forties. All of the money from this event will be donated to the Heart of America Chapter of the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, a charitable organization tasked with supporting the work of finding a cure. For more information about cystic fibrosis, visit the Cystic Fibrosis foundation at www.cff.org. For information about event on May 5th, contact Briana Petty at (620) 215-6141.