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Triplets' parents promote LifeBanc walk and run Saturday to celebrate anniversary of son's lifesaving liver transplant
By Jewell Cardwell
Beacon Journal staff writer
Published on Monday, Aug 11, 2008
All hands on deck.
That's the call from Stow's Michael and Jodi Del Ferraro, who are putting together a walk team for LifeBanc's Gift of Life Walk and Run on Saturday, Aug. 16, at Blossom Music Center.
It's the Del Ferraros' way of celebrating and giving back.
Chase Del Ferraro, one of the couple's triplet sons, received a lifesaving liver transplant July 26, 2007, at Cincinnati Children's Hospital. He was 13 months old and failing fast.
Today, he's a healthy and energetic 2-year-old who has more than doubled his weight.
''With the one-year anniversary of Chase's transplant just in July, our goal is to promote the importance of organ donation,'' Jodi said.
''And we want to teach Chase the importance of organ donation and how truly blessed he is.''
Since the transplant, the Del Ferraros have been able to concentrate more on Mason, who has cerebral palsy. Other triplet son Parker is doing just fine, as is sister Michaela who is 51/2 years old.
Interested in compiling a team for the event? Visit http//www.lifebanc.org or call 888-558-LIFE.
''Nationally, nearly 100,000 women, children and men are waiting for lifesaving organ transplants,'' LifeBanc spokeswoman Hadie Bartholomew writes.
The event — which will begin with an 8 a.m. registration, 8:45 a.m. 10-kilometer and 5K runs and 9:15 a.m. walk — attracts organ donor and recipient families.
A ceremony at 10:45 a.m. will honor those who have donated or received organs, and those who are still waiting to receive a transplant.
In Ohio, 52 percent of licensed drivers are registered organ donors. To become a registered organ and tissue donor and help save a life, say yes at the Bureau of Motor Vehicles.
Tea party with a purpose
A British Cream Tea for the Cure! — a tea party with a purpose — is in the works for 10:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 17, in Mrs. Ticklemore's Tea Room at Akron's West Point Market.
Space is limited, so early reservations are urged.
The event, which includes optional 90-minute, scone-baking demonstration classes (10:30 a.m. and 2:30 p.m.) conducted by former Beacon Journal food writer Jane Snow, is a fundraiser for a local team of five women friends who participate in Cleveland's Breast Cancer 3-Day Walk.
Each woman is committed to raise $2,200 for the 60-mile walk, with all proceeds going to breast cancer research.
Captain of Team Alternative Cure is Barbara Davis, a seven-year breast cancer survivor from Copley Township, who saw this event as a great way to celebrate and encourage other women who are battling disease or know someone who is.
Rounding out her team are Marie Curry, Ele Reed and Deidre Stone-Jackson, all of Akron; and Tiffany Stone Hancock of Baltimore, Md.
Deidre and Tiffany, married with children of their own, are walking in memory of their mother, Linda Chatman Stone, who lost her breast-cancer battle in 1989. The sisters are veterans of the 2004 Marine Marathon Corps in Washington, D.C.
Deidre suggests the tea party as an opportunity for women — friends, sisters, mothers and daughters — to get together to help other women.
A special menu of tea with clotted cream, scone, jam and a pink
ribbon cookie is included.
Cost is $10 for the tea party only and $20 for the scone-baking class.
For reservations, please call Ele Reed at 330-328-2131 or Deidre Stone-Jackson at 330-388-6072. Walk-ins will be seated as space allows.
For information about the Breast Cancer 3 Day event, please visit http://08.the3day.org.
Local book is complete
Joy Comes in the Morning — the book that Akron's Rebecca Shepard was writing with her mother, Jessie Lockett — is finally finished.
Both Shepard and her mother battled cancer.
Jessie lost her battle in 2005, a short time after I interviewed her for a column.
But her daughter vowed to complete the journey they had started together.
The book is available for $13.
''Any houses of faith that participate in selling the book will receive $1.50 for each book sold during September,'' Shepard said.
For information, please write her at ourjourney@sbcglobal. net.
Sad news
It is with a heavy heart that I report the death of Judy Auman, the subject of a recent column.
The Medina woman, 59, who was recently feted by her neighbors and members of the Connection Church in Medina with a land cruise, died Wednesday.
She and her husband, Clint, had planned to go on a cruise after the death of his mother, whom the Aumans had cared for in their home for several months.
Sadly, a short time later, Clint had a heart attack and Judy was diagnosed with pancreatic and liver cancer.
When pastor Tony Myles learned about the dire diagnosis, he rallied the church and the neighbors to host a huge land cruise in the couple's honor.
''I just never knew we were loved do much,'' she said that Sunday afternoon.
Neighbors described her as the most positive and inspiring person — even in the wake of the diagnosis — they've ever known.
Pig roast fundraiser
Swine-n-Dine, a pig roast fundraiser to benefit the Medina County Home and its residents, is planned for 1 to 5 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 24, at the home at 6144 Wedgewood Road, Medina.
Cost of the event, sponsored by Friends of the Medina County Home, is $10 for adults and $5 for children 10 or younger.
It will have great food and lots of entertainment: the Stony Hill Band, Nate the Great Magician, Mini Moos, bubbles, games, tattoos, face painting, an old car show, stage-coach rides and raffles of a queen-size quilt and a garden bench.
Attendees also are encouraged to bring personal-care items for military serving overseas. For information, please call 330-723-9552.
Jewell Cardwell can be reached at 330-996-3567 or jcardwell@thebeaconjournal.com.
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