This yr’s beneficiary of the Golden Triangle Boat House owners Affiliation Poker Run is Delta Davis, a Leukemia affected person. All of the proceeds go to assist Delta’s household.
LOWNDES CO, Miss. (WCBI) – The Golden Triangle Boat House owners Affiliation hosted their Fifth Annual Poker Run as we speak.
This yr’s beneficiary of the Golden Triangle Boat House owners Affiliation Poker Run is Delta Davis, a Leukemia affected person.
All of the proceeds go to assist Delta’s household.
“Delta was identified with b-cell Leukemia, acute lymphoblastic Leukemia, the day after Christmas. We made our technique to Memphis, spent one evening at La Bohner they usually transferred us to St. Jude and we’ve got been there ever since. We simply bought to maneuver residence final month. We nonetheless make weekly journeys to St. Jude and he or she has two years left with chemotherapy remedies. So we’ve got an extended highway forward of us.”
GTBOA Treasurer Rachel Boyle and member Linda Sobley mentioned they wish to assist native households.
“Yearly we do that and we began it 5 years in the past with the intention to profit a neighborhood needy household which will have had medical points to assist them raise that burden from their monetary state of affairs,” Boyle mentioned.
“There have been kids in want and we’ve got so many members, we’ve got over 80 households, and we knew that we might do one thing to lift cash for these kids. So 5 years in the past, we began the Poker Run, that is our fifth yr; and we’ve raised some huge cash for some candy kids,” Sobley mentioned.
Delta’s mother and father mentioned they recognize the love from the neighborhood.
“it’s superior. It’s actually a blessed and exhibits you simply how superior the neighborhood is and simply how there are nonetheless good folks on the planet,” Hayden Davis mentioned.
“We couldn’t do it with out all people’s help,” Chelsie Davis mentioned.
The GTBOA additionally offered raffle tickets and meals on the occasion.
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