Hope Fest fundraiser set for August 10th
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Hope Fest, a fundraising event supporting the Ronald McDonald House Charities Northern Alberta and The Kids With Cancer Society, will be held at Shaw’s Point Resort this month on August 10th.
The event is presented by Scotty’s Burger Shack and Fight for Hope, and will feature a variety of live music and activities.
While this year will feature music, Scotty Cartwright, the owner and operator of Scotty’s Burger Shack, says Fight For Hope started out differently.
“When mine and my wife’s little boy, at 6 years old, got diagnosed with leukemia, we had been shown so much love. Love like we’d never seen in our life from complete and total strangers and so we wanted to try and figure out how we could pay it forward to a couple of the charities that led the way in the health and wellness of our son,” said Cartwright and so we decided to come up with this idea where we would put on a fight show, a boxing match.” He says in the beginning, people would come donate to see them box, and though the event will be different this year, all of the proceeds will still go to charity. The change to a music festival is not the only difference this year, as Scotty says they are celebrating an important achievement. “Our son, this summer, he rung his bell. He took his final chemo treatment. Three and a half years of chemo that little boy had to endure everyday, and this summer he got to ring his bell, so this Hope Fest is the bell ringer. And so what it is going to be is an opportunity to honour anybody who’s ever rung their bell, or anybody thats ever had a family member that never got to meet that milestone, or for all of those of tomorrow for whom the bell tolls.”
