Fundraiser for Valley native with cancer draws crowd

Fundraiser for Valley native with cancer draws crowd

Youngstown

Heather Hoffman-Blois was overwhelmed by the number of people who came to a benefit picnic today for her.

“It’s very powerful,” she said.

Hoffman-Blois, 39, a Mahoning Valley native who now lives in a Denver, Colo., suburb, is being treated for peritoneal mesothelioma, a rare form of the disease that occurs in the cell walls surrounding the abdominal cavity.

Her mother, Jackie Patton, organized today’s benefit at American Legion Post 472. Patton works at the post.

Read the full story in Monday’s Vindicator.