{"id":793,"date":"2021-10-01T13:18:22","date_gmt":"2021-10-01T17:18:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.senatorwaltertimilty.com\/?p=793"},"modified":"2021-10-01T13:18:22","modified_gmt":"2021-10-01T17:18:22","slug":"timilty-teams-up-with-milton-glows-gold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.senatorwaltertimilty.com\/timilty-teams-up-with-milton-glows-gold\/","title":{"rendered":"Timilty teams up with Milton Glows Gold"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Senator Walter Timilty joins students from Milton High School to kick off “Milton Glows Gold.” (Staff photo, Office of Senator Timilty)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

‘Milton never disappoints’: Students glow gold for Childhood Cancer Awareness Month<\/h2>\n
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Alexandra Weliever<\/div>\n
The Patriot Ledger<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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MILTON\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Students were dressed in all that glows\u00a0gold outside Milton High School on Thursday morning to show support for kids with cancer.<\/p>\n

Feathery boas, glittering fedoras and golden suspenders sparkled in the early-morning sunshine as students, parents and a state senator gathered to observe\u00a0\u00a0Childhood Cancer Awareness Month.<\/p>\n

Milton students are participating in the\u00a0national “Glow Gold” movement. The color gold represents pediatric cancer.<\/p>\n

Kari McHugh said she didn’t know about the significance of the color gold, or that \u00a0Childhood Cancer Awareness Month existed, before her 12-year-old son Michael was diagnosed with a rare cancer in 2016.<\/p>\n

One day Michael was playing\u00a0lacrosse, “and then the next day I was a cancer mom,” she said.\u00a0“Everything kind of changed.”<\/p>\n

In 2017, Michael died from\u00a0alveolar rhabdomyosarcoma.<\/p>\n

Now, McHugh raises money and participates in things like the Glow Gold initiative through the\u00a0Michael C. McHugh Memorial Foundation.<\/p>\n