Local moms decorate the Crack the Whip sculpture in downtown Columbus in preparation for the inaugural Childhood Cancer Awareness Prayer event last September nearby on the steps of City Hall.
A second annual Childhood Cancer Awareness Community Prayer event, hosted by local parents who have lost children to cancer, will take place on the steps of Columbus City Hall, 123 Washington St., at 2 p.m. Sunday.
The event is presented by the Well Yeah Ariel Roberts Foundation, named in memory of the Columbus North High School senior cheerleader who died in January 2023 after she was diagnosed a year earlier with an inoperable glioblastoma. The foundation and organizations sponsoring the event raise money for pediatric cancer research.
Event sponsors include Elevate Childhood Cancer Research and Advocacy Inc., GLOW like Sarah Foundation, Hayle Elmore Bakes and Bridge FM. Elevate is run by Robyn Spoon of Columbus, whose son Justin died at 24 in March 2023 from a rare cancer called rhabdomyosarcoma. GLOW is a nonprofit operated by Kim Taylor of Hope, named in honor of her daughter, Sarah Taylor, who died from osteosarcoma in 2020 at age 14.
