The 6th annual Michael Hoefflin Foundation’s Walk/Run for Kids with Cancer will be held Saturday, March 19 at the College of the Canyons’ Cougar Stadium. According to MHF, the event is aimed at raising funds and awareness about pediatric cancer as well as celebrating the lives of the children...

Friends and family members of a Santa Clarita Valley boy with cancer are asking the community to help donate to a blood drive for Children’s Hospital Los Angeles to benefit Team Connor and other pediatric cancer patients. Connor Coughenour, 10, of Saugus, was diagnosed with Ewing’s sarcoma, a cancerous...

The Talbert Family Foundation is helping Hazel and her family. Jersey Mike’s Subs is committed to helping more than 100 local charities nationwide and has raised more than 7.5 million dollars over the last 4 years. During this “Month of Giving” they choose a charity of distinction for each region,...

[MHF] – The Michael Hoefflin Foundation Food Assistance Program helps put food on the tables of families battling pediatric cancer by providing $200 in grocery cards each month, for up to 12 months. Help us kick off 2014 by raising our first month of Food Assistance support – $4,000 for the...

WHAT: Jack’s Very BIG Music Benefit WHERE:  West Ranch High School Performing Arts Center, 26255 Valencia Blvd. WHEN: Sunday, Nov. 24, from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.   Local musical artists, including world class professionals and debuting young artists, come together in a musical tribute to little...

Alan S. Wayne, MD, an internationally renowned pediatric hematologist-oncologist, has joined Children’s Hospital Los Angeles and the University of Southern California (USC). After serving 14 years as clinical director of the Pediatric Oncology Branch of the National Cancer Institute (NCI) at the National...

Individual and team walkers and runners can now sign up online to participate in Michael Hoefflin Foundation’s Third Annual Walk for Kids with Cancer, scheduled for Saturday, March 23, at College of the Canyons Cougar Stadium. This year’s event will also include a Run. The annual walk gives individuals,...

Honors anatomy and physiology students at Hart High School are invited to participate in a cancer project every year after studying a unit on cancer. Some students volunteer for local cancer fundraisers like the annual Leukemia & Lymphoma “Light the Night” walk, while other students design their...

Melissa Grason, the 18-year-old Valencia High School student and terminal cancer patient honored with a parade and community reception on Aug. 4, died Monday after a two-year battle. In mid-June, the award-winning Special Olympics athlete’s doctors at Childrens Hospital Los Angeles told her parents,...

An 18-year-old Valencia student whose doctors have given her less than three months to live will be honored with a community parade and homecoming on Saturday. Melissa Grason, who has Down Syndrome, was also diagnosed in 2010 with Stage IV Wilm’s Tumor, a deadly cancer affecting her abdomen, chest...