by Ireland Hayes | Sep 27, 2024 | Art, Business, Education, Health, Politics
Saturday event will support former high school student Totality Martial Arts and Rappahannock County community volunteers will host “Kicking Out Cancer,” a community event Saturday to raise awareness for childhood cancer and support a local family battling...
by Foothills Forum Staff Report | Apr 21, 2024 | Agriculture, Art, Business, Health, Politics
One day he feels fine . . . next comes a diagnosis of cancer, five kinds “I’m a very blessed man. My whole life, I’ve had everything I wanted or needed,” said Ted Pellegatta, looking back on 84 years from the vantage of his recliner in the tiny cottage next door to...
by Ireland Hayes | Mar 27, 2024 | Health, Politics
Washington Mayor Joe Whited announced Monday his recent cancer diagnosis and upcoming absence from town meetings while he undergoes treatment. “Shortly after the last council meeting, I found out that I was going to be one of 1.9 million Americans this year who were...
by Randy Rieland | May 29, 2023 | Crime and Courts, Education, Health, Politics
When you’re an eight-year-old who’s been fighting cancer for two years, what’s the big deal about swimming with sharks? So, earlier this week, Anne Genho and her family flew to Hawaii to do just that, compliments of Make-A-Wish Greater Virginia. But before she left,...
by Foothills Forum Staff Report | Jun 15, 2022 | Health
The immense toll an intense childhood disease took on two Rappahannock families It’s like being struck by lightning. That’s how Lynnie Genho describes how she and her husband John felt last June when they were told their then six-year-old daughter, Anne, had cancer,...
