April 9, 2015
The annual Lions Children’s Cancer Institute fun ride is expected to attract about 60 cyclists to the South Burnett next week.
The ride starts and finishes in Kingaroy but in between the riders will be exploring the back roads of the region with overnight stops at Wondai, Proston, Murgon and Nanango.
The ride is supported by the Lions Club of Kallangur which has been fundraising for the Children’s Cancer Institute for more than 10 years.
Since 2004, the fun ride has raised more than $407,000 for research into childhood cancer.
It will begin in Kingaroy on Monday (April 13) and will finish back in Kingaroy on Saturday (April 18).
On Thursday night (April 16), the co-founder of the The Children’s Leukaemia and Cancer Foundation, Jack Kasses AM, will be speaking at the Nanango RSL Club from 6:30pm to tell his story.
In 1975, his daughter Helen was diagnosed with leukaemia.
The lives of her parents were thrown into chaos as they moved from Childers to Sydney for their daughter’s treatment at Sydney Children’s Hospital.
Jack met another father, John Lough, in the hospital waiting room.
While it was clear the doctors were doing all they could to cure the children in their care, it seemed to Jack and John that very little was being done in Australia to conduct research into childhood cancer.
The pair set up The Children’s Leukaemia and Cancer Foundation in May, 1976.
The laboratory, The Children’s Cancer Institute, opened in 1984.
