Cards Sought For Cancer Center Patients

Area residents are invited to become CHEM-pals — Cheerful, Heartfelt, Encouragement, Message-pals — to encourage patients undergoing treatment at Danbury Hospital’s Praxair Cancer Center as well as at New Milford Hospital’s Cancer Center.

The Newtown-based grassroots group established by Kathleen Cole offers different ways to participate including:

Picking up a greeting card at a local store to include one’s own message or simply sign “a friend.”

Host a card-making party and make homemade cards from construction paper, card-stock or computer paper with your friends and family.

Tell a local group or organization about the effort and ask them to become involved.

Anyone participating is simply asked to not seal card envelopes or include any religious passages or messages.

Card drop-off boxes are located inside the Praxair Cancer Center at Danbury Hospital; at Ann’s Place-The Home of I Can, 80 Saw Mill Road in Danbury; and at the C.H. Booth Library in Newtown.

For more information call 203-270-1615 or e-mail chocolatcole@sbcglobal.net.