A YOUNG child s battle with cancer has inspired a council chairman to donate £1,000 to charity. Cllr Nigel Taylor, who is more used to doing battle with councillors at Somerset County Council, was moved by the touching story of Emilia-Mae s successful fight against the disease. He learned about the toddler s bravery at the age of just eighteen months during a chance chat with her dad, County Hall communications office Michael Wallis. Cllr Taylor immediately pledged £1,000 from the Chairman s Charitable Fund to Musgrove Leukaemic Group, to benefit local children undergoing treatment for the disease. Emilia-Mae, was diagnosed with Acute Myeloid Leukemia in 2012 – a cancer that she was seventeen times more likely to develop than most children as she was born with Down Syndrome.
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What could be more heroic than first responders organizing a fundraiser for not one but two local nonprofits?! Chatham Unity in the Community held their first Chili Cook Off for Savannah/Chatham County Court Appointed Special Advocates and The Front Porch at Coastal Empire Brewery on Feb. 20.
When longtime friend Jamie Davis and I roll up to the westside brewery, I see birthday boy Wayne Noah waving me over to park beside a large cornhole competition. A huge fan of Chatham Emergency Services chief of development, I pose the 38-year fire service veteran with Jamie and event founder Lydia McCrary.