On Saturday April 10th, from 10am to 2pm there will be a car wash held at Vince Williams Suzuki dealer, 801 SE Marlin Ave, at the corner of Marlin and 101, in Warrenton. Proceeds will go towards the fundraising drive that's underway for Meg Patterson's breast cancer treatment. Meg, a local Astoria theatre director (Shakespeare's Twelfth Night at the River Theatre), former manager of the River Theatre, and former ESL teacher and Recreation Advisor at Tongue Point JobCorps, was diagnosed with breast cancer in August 2008. Since then, she has had two surgeries, each followed by a more aggressive recurrence, and she is now at Stage IV with bone metastasis. She is planning to begin a three-week treatment at the Cancer Hope Center in Reno, Nevada on April 19th.
The car wash is being organized by Candice White, of White Glove Cleaning, who met Meg when a college friend of Meg's looked to Craigslist online to give Meg a gift of a housecleaning last Christmas. An online fundraiser for medical treatments that are not covered by insurance has been organized by Meg's friends from all around the country at
. So far, the team has raised $14,639, and hopes to raise $30,000 by the end of April. There are also several raffles being held with friends donating a wide variety of fun things like theatre tickets and an apartment stay in NYC, a weekend at a historic 1700s house in Newport, Rhode Island; a weekend at a cottage on Torch Lake in Michigan, and a print of fine art photography.
The car wash was Candice's idea, and she has recruited several high school students to wash the cars, as well as the donation of the car wash facility by Vince Williams of Warrenton Suzuki. In case of rain, the car wash will be held the following Saturday, April 17th. Donations can also be made directly to the fund online, or at Clatsop Community Bank on Commercial Street in Astoria.
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