Got Marrow? Leukemia Fundraiser & Bone Marrow Drive For Mineola Resident Dennis Donelan

A Leukemia Fundariser/Bone Marrow Drive will be held to support Dennis Donelan, a 30-year resident of Mineola, who was diagnosed with Acute Myelogenous—or Myeloid—Leukemia. This is an aggressive form of the disease that more than 12,000 Americans will be diagnosed with this year. He is currently undergoing treatment at Memorial Sloane-Kettering Cancer Center. 

Initially at a loss for what to do about this situation, friends and family have rallied together to help Donelan, his wife and five daughters who along with countless families around the country and the world are struggling with this very often fatal form of blood and bone marrow cancer. 

Friends and family will also be selling raffles for a chance to win exciting prizes plus a 50/50. Auction items include a Blu Ray player, 38" Plasma TV, gift cards and more. Anything that you can part with that we can raffle off would be greatly appreciated!

Proceeds from this event will be donated to DKMS, the organization that will be providing the materials to swab and process potential bone marrow donors.

DKMS is a not-for-profit group that is dedicated to getting the world registered as bone marrow donors, and has gone from being one man desperate to find his wife a match in 1991, to being the largest registry of its kind in the world.  One-hundred percent of funds donated to DKMS go to processing the cheek swabs that place potential donors on the registry. For more information about DKMS please visit www.dkmsamericas.org.

Please help make this event a success by donating anything you can. Join us and consider becoming a potential bone marrow donor. What better gift could you give yourself—and others—this holiday season than saving the life of a person battling leukemia?