Raising Spirits for the Cure Event Sept. 25
Raising Spirits for the Cure, a wine and beer tasting event being held from 6 to 10 p.m. Friday, Sept. 25, at the Kingsgate Marriott Conference Center, supports the UC Cancer Institute and the Hank Roy Fund for research and awareness of head, neck and oral cancers.
As part of the festivities, a newly hybridized daylily from the garden of Sandy Holmes, head and neck cancer survivor, will be auctioned off, and the winning bidder can name it in honor of a loved one. The winner will receive all of the daylilies to give to family or friends, and the flowers will be registered in the American Hemerocallis database with that name. Read more about Sandy's story: https://www.healthnews.uc.edu/news/?/26635/.
"Tickets are still available, and we'd love to see everyone come out to raise money for research at the UC Cancer Institute," says Nan Roy, founder of the Hank Squad, in memory of her husband Hank Roy who died from a head and neck cancer in 2013. Read more about Hank and Nan's fight to raise awareness here: http://thehanksquad.com/.
The cost of the event is $60. For more information, contact Pamela Kinane at 513-558-9928 or kinanepa@uc.edu.
Mike and Sandy Holmes hybridize new daylilies and market them over the Internet. As a way to give back to UC for the care provided to Sandy, the Holmeses introduced two new daylilies and gave all the proceeds from the sales of those flowers to benefit head and neck cancer research at UC. This daylily was named "Raising Spirits for a Cure," referencing the Raising Spirits for the Cure event, benefiting the UC Cancer Institute and the Hank Roy Fund.
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