{"id":1040436,"date":"2021-11-21T13:44:00","date_gmt":"2021-11-21T18:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1040436"},"modified":"2021-11-21T13:44:05","modified_gmt":"2021-11-21T18:44:05","slug":"corrections-officers-hold-race-to-raise-money-for-6-year-old-girl-with-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/corrections-officers-hold-race-to-raise-money-for-6-year-old-girl-with-cancer\/","title":{"rendered":"Corrections Officers Hold Race to Raise Money for 6-Year-Old Girl with Cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fcorrections-officers-hold-race-to-raise-money-for-6-year-old-girl-with-cancer%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1040436&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">A six-year-old Pennsylvania girl is battling a rare form of cancer and her father\u2019s coworkers have come up with a clever way to raise money for her family:&nbsp;<span>\u201cThe Fat &amp; Furious Hundred-Yard Dash.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Adaleigh Evans and her parents recently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wnep.com\/article\/news\/local\/wayne-county\/raising-money-for-young-girl-with-cancer-waymart\/523-6899094b-588e-45df-8130-87c743fb2baa\">discovered<\/a> a lump on her shoulder and in October, she was diagnosed with a rare form of cancer, according to WNEP.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p><span>\u201cYou don\u2019t ever want to see your kids in any type of pain,\u201d her father Brandon said. \u201cSo it was a very, very emotional time and it still is.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Brandon works as a corrections officer near the family\u2019s home in Waymart and recently learned of a fundraiser his coworkers put together.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>His colleagues&nbsp;<\/span><span>Justin Gisinger, Wilfredo Mieja, and Marc Fenkner put together \u201c<\/span><span>The Fat &amp; Furious Hundred-Yard Dash,\u201d where the three men planned to race each other and collect donations for Brandon\u2019s family during tumultuous times.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p><span> \u201cI\u2019m like what is this? You know? And I don\u2019t like \u2026 this this this has to be a joke, and they were like no, like they stepped up and they wanted to do this for you guys,\u201d Brandon said.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cWe are giant family inside of there. When one of us hurts we all hurt. So you got to step up and help your fellow comrades,\u201d&nbsp; Marc Fenkner said.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_18846010\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" readability=\"33\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/fathers-make-a-race.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-18846010 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/fathers-make-a-race.jpg\" alt=\"Correctional officers are happy to do their bit to save a life\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Rundown: Correctional officers are happy to do their bit&nbsp;for <span>Adaleigh Evans&nbsp;<\/span>in t<span>he Fat &amp; Furious Hundred-Yard Dash.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><span>The three men raced each other on Sunday after a shift and those in attendance donated money to benefit Addie. A box of donuts awaited the winner of the race at the finish line.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span> \u201cWe put ourselves out there and made a fool of ourselves, me wearing a cape and all that you know, just for Addie, but it could be anything more than that. Something much bigger for everyone in the world,\u201d Wilfredo said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The men have challenged other shifts of corrections officers to race one another and the winners will square off in a 100-yard dash.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Addie was treated with a triple-dose of chemo on Monday, but her mother Jena says she has not lost her sense of humor.<\/p>\n<p><span> \u201cKeep the smile on her face. That\u2019s that\u2019s one of the biggest thing. I mean, we\u2019re really just taking it day by day. That\u2019s all you can do right now,\u201d Jena told WNEP.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The family has a GoFundMe page <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gofundme.com\/f\/addies-army-fighting-childhood-cancer?utm_campaign=p_cp+share-sheet&amp;utm_medium=copy_link_all&amp;utm_source=customer\">called<\/a>&nbsp;<\/span>Addie\u2019s Army fighting childhood cancer. The family has already exceeded its goal of $5,000, as 215 donors raised&nbsp;$13,145 as of November 20.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A six-year-old Pennsylvania girl is battling a rare form of cancer and her father\u2019s coworkers have come up with a clever way to raise money for her family:\u00a0\u201cThe Fat &#038; &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1040436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1040436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1040436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1040436\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1040436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1040436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1040436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}