Paddlers and board members Pat Lacey and Marilyn Pollard packaged 128 hats for chemo patients. A friend of Marilyn’s sister, Ellen, knitted all of them, and PDP helped facilitate their donation to Christie Clinic’s Cancer Center in Champaign.

Each year, the Prairie Dragon Paddlers look forward to participating in a fundraising event hosted by one of their sponsors, Kirby Medical Center in Monticello.

The Prairie Dragon Paddlers Breast Cancer Research Fund was established in 2018 at the Cancer Center at Illinois on the campus of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Read more about the Prairie Dragon Paddlers in this article by Bridget Broihahn that was published in At Home in Central Illinois early on in PDP’s history.