MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (WBOY) — The Mon County Heart at Mylan Park hosted Tonie’s Nation Roads Live performance to Faculty Tour on Friday night to boost funds and consciousness for the early detection of breast most cancers.
West Virginia native Wyatt Turner and quite a few different native bands and performers performed to learn the Tonie’s Fund, a non-profit basis created to encourage folks to get early detection for breast most cancers and likewise to teach them on the topic.
The nonprofit was began by Mark Gentile, who named it after his late spouse Tonie Renner Gentile, who handed away from breast most cancers in 2023. He informed 12 Information that early detection is “enormous” and that shared the story of his spouse’s prognosis and the way he began this system.
“By the point we obtained to the physician, noticed the physician and every thing else, she was already stage 4. There have been a few indicators, however we didn’t acknowledge them on the time, and truthfully had we acknowledged them then we would not be right here immediately. However as a result of we’re right here immediately, I need to guarantee that everyone will get on the market and, you recognize, does the check-ups, does the mammograms, that truthfully is why we’re supporting the WVU Most cancers Institue as a result of they do a statewide program of early detection of breast most cancers particularly with Bonnies Bus and a number of different key applications,” Mark Gentile stated.
Mark Gentile informed 12 Information that his spouse was a firefighter and EMT who as soon as lived in Morgantown earlier than the pair moved to Connecticut. She was additionally a fan of the Mountaineers and liked music.
“The extra you say her identify the extra she stays alive. We principally can put footage up of her,” Gentile stated. “And it’s not nearly Tonie tonight it’s about anyone who’s been touched by most cancers, whether or not it breast most cancers or any kind of most cancers.”
All of the proceeds from the live performance will go to help breast most cancers analysis and scholarships for first responders and college students within the medical discipline.
