Evan has a match!

 After four-year-old Evan Wallace spent four-and-a-half months in the Stollery Children’s Hospital waiting for a bone marrow match to be confirmed, the news that her family, along with their extended family, friends, and community have been waiting for has arrived.

    “We knew we had a strong possible match before Christmas, and then a week after the New Year we were told we had two.

Evan donating $13,320 to Val Figliuzzi, President of the Kids with Cancer Foundation, to go towards funding the Children’s Therapeutic Music Program for the Stollery Hospital, and it will provide more time for it on the Oncology unit. The money came from very generous donations from family, community members, Lougheed Parent Council, Wainwright Bantam Polar Kings, Bruce Stampede Association, and Sedgewick Minor Hockey. “It’s a great program that has proved to make a big difference in these kids lives but the government funding is just not there," say the Wallaces, adding, “so, thank you!”

Evan’s blood drive an unqualified success 648 northern Alberta patients will benefit

Evan Wallace

Leslie Cholowsky
Editor
   
    Late December’s two-day blood drive for Evan Wallace, the three-year-old Sedgewick girl who was recently diagnosed with a rare form of  acute myeloid leukemia, was a huge success.

    The results, according to Canadian Blood Services’ Jody Bredo, were phenomenal.

    “We’ve never had a turnout quite like this,” Bredo said.