Friday fundraiser to help boy with leukemia

Austintown

A pair of young girls are doing what they can to help a toddler with leukemia.

Ashley Mickey and Courtney Schwind, both 8, are setting up a lemon shake and candy sale from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Friday in front of Mahoning Medical Supply on the corner of state Route 46 and Ohltown Road.

Proceeds from the sale would benefit 2-year-old Brett Wilcox, of Austintown, who is fighting a battle with Acute Myeloid Leukemia.

Wilcox has already undergone several rounds of chemotherapy and is scheduled for a bone marrow transplant in Cincinnati.

The fundraiser will take place rain or shine, and Austintown Detective Sgt. Ray Holmes said the department plans to send officers over throughout the day to support the effort.