Band Raises Money for Cancer Research

Members of the Cure Cancer Band are using their music once again to raise money for cancer research.

"A Christmas to Cure Cancer 2," the follow-up CD to 2002's "A Christmas to Cure Cancer," will be available for purchase at the OSU Medical Center Scarlet Ribbon Gift Shops and online at www.achristmastocurecancer.org staring in October, says band member Mark Puskarich who started the fund-raiser. Other bands also will be featured on the CD.

The band has raised more than $51,000 through CD sales and benefit concerts for the OSU Comprehensive Cancer Center - Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and Richard J. Solove Research Institute.

Puskarich and his former highschool band, which used to be called Aereon, started the fundraiser after band-mate Lorne VanFossen was diagnosed with Hodgkin's Lymphoma in 2000.

Member of the Cure Cancer Band will perform two benefit concerts this year: one on Dec. 3 at the Wyndham Dublin Hotel, Dublin, Ohio; and one on Dec. 5 at Dover High School, Dover, Ohio.