Lights of Life Wrap it up Rally
gives boost to cancer care
PRESQUE ISLE — A County-wide effort to support cancer care services for Aroostook residents, held each year around the holiday season, got a boost recently with a “wrap it up rally” in the Star City.
NINE-YEAR-OLD Hadley McLean 
of Presque Isle, center, along with her parents, from left, Tim and Holly McLean, join Sharon Daigle Gerrish of MPG and Bobbie-Jo Caron of TAMC in lighting the star atop the Lights of Life Tree at the MPG ACE Hardware/Farm Store during the Wrap it up Rally for Hope Dec. 15.
The Lights of Life project, a partnership of The Aroostook Medical Center and Maine Potato Growers, held the Wrap it up Rally for Hope Dec. 15 at the MPG ACE Hardware/Farm Store on Parsons Street. The event coincided with MPG’s annual Wrap It Up holiday promotion.
TAMC and MPG employees were on hand for the rally to collect monetary donations, which are designated this year to support the purchase of new patient treatment chairs at TAMC’s Aroostook Cancer Care. Joining them was Miss Maine Princess Hadley McLean, who was named by TAMC as the December County Cancer Hall of Courage honoree, and who was selected as this year’s official Lights of Life spokesperson.
TAMC’s Aroostook Cancer Care, located in the East Wing Annex Building at the A.R. Gould Memorial Hospital, sees on average 60 patients a week. Many of the patients spend as many as eight hours at a time sitting in the chairs while receiving life-saving chemotherapy treatment.
The Lights of Life project invites those who donate to do so in honor of living loved ones or in memory of those who have passed away.
Different levels of giving such as single light, ribbon, ornament, strand of lights, and constellation provide those who contribute the opportunity to honor or memorialize those who have impacted their lives on the tree.
With the Dec. 15 rally the Lights of Life project is closer to meeting its $5,000 goal for 2012. Donations to the project can be made between now and Dec. 31 at the MPG ACE Hardware/Farm Store or online at www.tamc.org. For information, call TAMC at 768-4858.
