LOUISVILLE — Gilda’s Membership Kentuckiana (GCK.org), a most cancers assist group for the entire household, not too long ago celebrated winners of the ninth annual Write Stuff Contest. The competition is a scholarship award program giving center and highschool youth, primarily from Kentuckiana, the chance to share their very own most cancers connection experiences by essays, poetry, 2-dimensional artwork, or movies.
This yr, GCK obtained nearly 50 entries from throughout Kentucky, Southern Indiana, and even Tennessee, with a complete of 15 winners in six classes: Center Faculty Essay, Excessive Faculty Essay, Survivor Essay, Poetry, Video, and Artwork.
First-place winners obtained $500, second-place winners obtained $250, and third-place winners obtained $125; all took house a customized trophy celebrating their artistic accomplishment. This contest is sponsored yearly by Kosair Charities and the WHAS Campaign for Kids. Twenty judges from quite a lot of skilled backgrounds, all of whom have a connection to most cancers and the Gilda’s Membership mission, chosen the next winners:
Excessive Faculty Essay
Catherine Wright – 1st Place – Apollo Excessive Faculty – Daviess County, Ky.
Mattie Whitworth – 2nd Place – Assumption Excessive Faculty – Jefferson County, Ky.
Madeline Everette – third Place – Assumption Excessive Faculty – Jefferson County, Ky.
Pediatric Essay Winner
Eli Thompson – 1st Place – Central Hardin Excessive Faculty – Hardin County, Ky.
Center Faculty Essay
Kaleigh Coleman – 1st Place – J. Graham Brown Faculty – Jefferson County, Ky.
Lakan Jerke – 2nd Place – Highland Hills Center Faculty – Georgetown
Bailey Childress – third Place – Hickman County Faculty – Hickman County, Tenn.
Poetry
Audrey Abbott – 1st Place – Russell Excessive Faculty – Russell County, Ky.
Ellington Crabtree – 2nd Place – Daviess County Excessive Faculty – Daviess County, Ky.
Heather Purlee – third Place – Silver Creek Excessive Faculty – Sellersburg
Video
Elena Desantis – 1st Place – Frankfort Excessive Faculty – Franklin County, Ky.
Olivia Thurman – 2nd Place – Kentucky Nation Day – Jefferson County, Ky.
Artwork
Molly Phelps – 1st Place – Bullitt East Excessive Faculty – Bullitt County, Ky.
Ardour Wright – 2nd Place – Elizabethtown Excessive Faculty – Hardin County, Ky.
Ava Hurwitz – third Place – Kentucky Nation Day – Jefferson County, Ky.
Gilda’s Membership Kentuckiana (www.GCK.org), headquartered at 2440 Grinstead Dr., Louisville, Ky., and Gilda’s West, at 1720 West Broadway in Louisville, present locations the place kids and adults with most cancers (and their households and buddies) be part of with others to construct social and emotional assist as a complement to medical care. Since March of 2020, GCK now gives greater than 180 digital program choices monthly on-line—all freed from cost and out there to males, ladies, teenagers, and kids dwelling with most cancers throughout the globe.
In its first decade, Gilda’s Membership served greater than 8,500 individuals (one-quarter of whom are kids) dwelling with 55 several types of most cancers. GCK members dwell in Jefferson, Oldham, Bullitt, Spencer, Shelby, Hardin, Nelson, and McCracken counties in Kentucky, in addition to Scott, Washington, Harrison, Clark and Floyd counties in Indiana.