Stroke club member runs for cancer cause

Woy Woy Stroke Recovery Club member Ms Annie-Lauree Collins will participate in the Colour Run at Centennial Park on Sunday, August 25, to raise money for the Cancer Council.

Ms Collins, who has been a member of the club for three years, has suffered brain tumours and 11 operations since she was diagnosed with ependymomas at age 18.

Ms Collins, who will run 5km as part of the event, said that she never thought it would be possible to run such a distance with her condition, but has been working with a personal trainer to train for her first run.

Annie said she hoped to raise as much as she could for the Cancer Council.

The Stroke Recovery Club has donated $50 raised from raffles to start things off.

Donations can be made at a specially marked box at Lance Clarkes Chemist in Woy Woy, or cheques can be made payable to The Cancer Council care of Woy Woy Stroke Recovery Club, PO Box 369, Woy Woy, 2256.

Woy Woy Stroke Recovery Club meets on the second Tuesday of each month at 11:30 am at the Peninsula Community Centre in Woy Woy and organises monthly luncheons and bus trips.

Email, 2 July 2013

Gina Channon, Woy Woy Stroke Recovery Club