On April 21, the Young Survival Coalition Duluth (YSC Duluth) will hold the 5th annual Scrap for Survival, the area’s only scrapbooking event for breast cancer. Over the past four years, this event has raised more than $40,000 for programs for young women with breast cancer. Scrapbookers, quilters, card makers and crafters of all levels of expertise will gather together at Marshall School for fifteen blissful hours of uninterrupted crafting time.
This year, in addition to raising money for YSC Duluth, donations of scrapbooking materials will be collected to benefit Solvay Hospice House, where staffer Jody Draper has created a special tradition of crafting remembrance scrapbooks to commemorate each and every patient who has spent time at Solvay. She collects obituaries, researches each person’s favorite hobbies and interests, and strives to make every page a very personal monument to every individual whose memory has become a part of the hospice house forever. What started as an endeavor to help staff honor their patients has turned into something that is just as important to the residents and their loved ones as it is to Jody and the staff at Solvay.
We are so grateful to YSC Duluth for supporting this memory making effort and helping to ensure that Solvay staff can continue to create these special scrapbooks for many years to come. To register or learn more about the event, visit http://ysc.convio.net/scrap2012.
