GCA dinner highlights love and support necessary to help people in treatment for cancer - The Batavian

Cancer has diminished the speaking dependable of Antonia Richenburg but present her spirit, arsenic she made wide astatine the yearly meal of Genesee Cancer Assistance astatine Batavia Downs connected Saturday night.

Richenburg was diagnosed with squamous compartment carcinomas connected her close vocal chord successful the Fall of 2013.  The pursuing February she was referred to Genesee Cancer Assistance.

"Genesee Cancer Assistance has been a fantastic asset," Antonia said done her girl Carson, who work her speech. "When I was confused and not capable to find the answers I needed, the unit astatine Genesee Cancer Assistance were determination to assistance retired by doing their champion to reply my questions. They adjacent made the process of receiving fiscal assistance during my conflict with crab a stress-free process."

It has been her household who has been her strength, though, she said.

"Although this has been a unsmooth roadworthy for me, I ne'er gave up," she said. "I have a beardown enactment system. My household has been my biggest supporter, with much emotion and encouragement than anyone has ever asked for. I would person ne'er survived without my husband, Eric, and my children, Todd, his wife, Rachel, and my daughters, Kearson and Carson."

She added aboriginal to encompass her full enactment entourage, including her doctors, "the emotion and enactment of these radical kept maine focused connected what the what's important ."

And ended with proposal for anyone diagnosed with cancer.

"Love and enactment are decidedly needed," she said. "It volition assistance support you alive."

Photos by Howard Owens

Tami Burbules, besides a crab survivor, thanked Genesee Cancer Assistance for its enactment aft she was diagnosed with bosom crab successful 2021.

Dorothy Schlaggel, a laminitis of Genesee Cancer Assistance, received a lasting ovation erstwhile she was introduced.

Schlaggel said the thought for Genesee Cancer Assistance came aft she and immoderate others attended the Relay for Life successful Rochester and they decided they didn't privation to marque that travel anymore truthful they started the Festival of Hope Walk to rise wealth to assistance conflict cancer.

"There a batch of our volunteers who are inactive volunteering, and it's been 30 years oregon more," Schlaggel said. "And each I got to accidental is Genesee Cancer Assistance has the champion volunteers ever and this spot is fantastic."

Before the speeches, the volunteers were recognized, including, above, Mary Valle and Martha Woodruff.

Sue Underwood applauds Antonia Richenburg aft her speech. Soon the full country was connected its feet applauding.

Paul Figlow was maestro of ceremonies.

The currency doorway prize was awarded by a process of elimination.  Everybody had a small lighted trinket and if your fig was called, you turned disconnected your light. At the clip this representation was taken, conscionable earlier The Batavian left, determination were 61 lights inactive on.