Two Events Set To Raise Funds For Children With Cancer
July 28, 2016 at 4:25 p.m.
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On Saturday, Abby Rice, a consultant for Thirty-One, a business that sells personalized purses and handbags, will host an event, Kurls for Kids, at Courthouse Coffee, 2858 Frontage Road, Warsaw.
The event is from noon to 2 p.m.
At the event Rice will sell purses, handbags and storage items. Ten percent of the sales will be donated to the Kurls For Kids fundraiser for Wigs for Kids.
Wigs For Kids is a non-profit group that creates wigs for children suffering from disease-related hair loss such as cancer.
There also will be a Kurls For Kids event Feb. 25 at Concord Mall, Elkhart, from 5 to 9 p.m.
Salon stylists, cosmetology school students and barbers will collect hair donations and provide trims for $8 per person for anyone who wants to donate their hair during the Feb. 25 event.
Proceeds from the event will be donated to Wigs For Kids.
The Feb. 25 event also will feature displays of artwork from fourth- and fifth-grade students from Warsaw elementary schools. Warsaw artist Nick Stanton will perform the song "Skin," along with other works.
Rice's daughter, Zoe, will donate her hair for the Feb. 25 event.
Kari Foster Chappell, Winona Lake, came up with the idea for the events when she heard Rascal Flatts' song "Skin" on the radio in November 2008.
As a teacher's assistant at Presby Preschool, she is in contact with children and thought to herself what she would do if the parents of one of the preschool students came to her and said their child had been diagnosed with cancer and lost their hair.
That is how she came up with an idea for the fundraisers.
She was 14 when her mother was diagnosed with breast cancer, and her mother died in 1998 when she was 17.
Since 1998, Foster Chappell has donated 12 inches of her hair every year to Wigs For Kids or Locks of Love.
For more information about the fundraisers, call Foster Chappell at 574-527-5552, or visit [email protected][[In-content Ad]]
On Saturday, Abby Rice, a consultant for Thirty-One, a business that sells personalized purses and handbags, will host an event, Kurls for Kids, at Courthouse Coffee, 2858 Frontage Road, Warsaw.
The event is from noon to 2 p.m.
At the event Rice will sell purses, handbags and storage items. Ten percent of the sales will be donated to the Kurls For Kids fundraiser for Wigs for Kids.
Wigs For Kids is a non-profit group that creates wigs for children suffering from disease-related hair loss such as cancer.
There also will be a Kurls For Kids event Feb. 25 at Concord Mall, Elkhart, from 5 to 9 p.m.
Salon stylists, cosmetology school students and barbers will collect hair donations and provide trims for $8 per person for anyone who wants to donate their hair during the Feb. 25 event.
Proceeds from the event will be donated to Wigs For Kids.
The Feb. 25 event also will feature displays of artwork from fourth- and fifth-grade students from Warsaw elementary schools. Warsaw artist Nick Stanton will perform the song "Skin," along with other works.
Rice's daughter, Zoe, will donate her hair for the Feb. 25 event.
Kari Foster Chappell, Winona Lake, came up with the idea for the events when she heard Rascal Flatts' song "Skin" on the radio in November 2008.
As a teacher's assistant at Presby Preschool, she is in contact with children and thought to herself what she would do if the parents of one of the preschool students came to her and said their child had been diagnosed with cancer and lost their hair.
That is how she came up with an idea for the fundraisers.
She was 14 when her mother was diagnosed with breast cancer, and her mother died in 1998 when she was 17.
Since 1998, Foster Chappell has donated 12 inches of her hair every year to Wigs For Kids or Locks of Love.
For more information about the fundraisers, call Foster Chappell at 574-527-5552, or visit [email protected][[In-content Ad]]
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