September 2025 Childhood Cancer Awareness Community Night

To recognize Childhood Cancer Awareness Month (September), all of our families came together to show their camaraderie in their support of children who are battling cancer, who are survivors, or have passed away in the wake of this horrific disease.

Gold is the color of the childhood cancer ribbon, and gold was evident throughout the evening at our September 14th Community Night. Our over arching theme for the evening was; “Children are More Precious than Gold”. The evening welcomed over 130 attendees and our dining room centerpieces Illuminated “GOLD” throughout the room.

Matt and Heidi Brown, one of our CCC families, served our dinner. Matt is a remarkable chef! They own and operate Estelle’s Eatery and Bar in Harmony, MN. Thank you Matt and Heidi for serving such a delicious dinner which consisted of Gouda Mac & Cheese Bowls with all of the fixings!

We would also like to thank Donna Richardson for providing blankets and quilts for our families. They were beautiful and our families loved looking through them to choose their favorite one.

And in recognition of this special month, we invited Sugar Shuga to make delicious cookies for Childhood Cancer Awareness. Wow, were they tasty and beautiful!

We would also like to thank Healing Chapters Foundation for the donation of beautiful books for our families. It was so much fun watching our children trying to choose which book was their favorite. The Healing Chapters Foundation is dedicated to providing books to children of all ages who are dealing with physical or mental illnesses.

After dinner our families were invited to participate in Sharing Time. CCC offers two breakout sessions; one for our families still battling their child’s cancer, and the other for our bereaved families. This month our newly bereaved families received a bouquet of yellow roses in memory of their precious child. We’d also like to thank Kerry Goihl for facilitating our bereaved breakout session. Kerry a bereaved mom herself, and has gone on to get her Master’s Degree and is now a Licensed Graduate Social Worker with an emphasis on grief counseling . We are grateful to Kerry for providing a safe space for parents to share their grief journeys.

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