The following is a transcription of The Art of Volunteering Episode 10: Tracey Weldy & Michelle Ward, Kids Can’t Fight Cancer Alone.
Stormy Bell (00:00): Welcome my friends to another episode of The Art of Volunteering. I’m your host, Stormy Bell. On today’s episode, we are in Bradford County, Pennsylvania, where I grew up, so I’m excited about this. Our guests will share their personal stories on how cancer entered their lives and how their experiences birth Kids Can’t Fight Cancer Alone. My guest Michelle Ward, her journey began with her son being diagnosed with Hodgkin’s lymphoma at the age of 17 in November 2018. He was considered no evidence of disease on May 1st, 2019.
The community has supported them overwhelmingly, through and beyond his journey. Tracey Weldy was included in that support and reached out to her in the summer of 2019 about holding a fundraiser for two other families in the area that had received a childhood cancer diagnosis. They were young families and were as well known in the communities like our kids, due to their age. The fundraiser was created with enormous responses and success, and we decided we would like to continue to help families facing a childhood cancer diagnosis like our family had.
Tracey is a mother of a childhood cancer survivor who was so humbled by her journey that she wanted to make sure she gave back to her community, making sure no family goes through this alone. Tracey and Michelle, thank you for coming on The Art of Volunteering today.
Tracey Weldy (01:33): Thank you for having us.
Michelle Ward (01:35): Thank you, Stormy.
Stormy Bell (01:37): Before we discuss the Kids Can’t Fight Cancer Alone, I want to invite both of you to have an opportunity to share your childhood cancer journey, and then maybe mention how it changed you, your perspective, your compassion, your heart, just share on that. Let’s go with Michelle first.
Michelle Ward (02:00): Well, our journey started when Timmy was 17, had found a lump under his armpit and through several months of doctoring through pediatrician, a surgeon, they decided that there was nothing to be worried about. He waited until the fall of 2018 before we decided to have a biopsy. Of course, a week later, he was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s lymphoma. So suddenly, we entered a world that we had no idea about.
I saw people on news stations and saw people in other communities where you hear stories of your child having cancer, but until you live it yourself, it is so hard to wrap your brain around. Through his journey, his cancer diagnosis, his treatments, we received so much support, overwhelming support from local people, our communities, local communities. It was unbelievable.
When his journey was completed, we were interested in trying to figure out how to give back to all of those people that helped us. It changed us in the way we looked at life. Things that previously may have been important, which in his case, the local football game, who’s going to win this week, okay, maybe that wasn’t as important as we originally thought it was. We wanted to be able to help people on a whole other level. I knew Tracey from previously with her daughter being diagnosed and she reached out to me and wanted to start something together.
Stormy Bell (03:57): Tracey, how about you?
Tracey Weldy (04:01): So my journey started right before Christmas of 2016. My daughter woke up, she had a lump on her neck. I’m a nurse, so I wasn’t really all that concerned about it. We went to the doctor’s for a routine checkup and the doctor wasn’t concerned about it, but it didn’t go away. It didn’t go away, so they did an ultrasound. They decided to put her on antibiotics, test her for Lyme. Somehow, the test was inaccurate and they diagnosed her with Lyme disease. My daughter doesn’t go outside. If she had a bug on her, she would know.
I questioned that diagnosis and asked to be referred outside of our local medical facility to speak with someone who deals with it on a regular basis. We went and saw him, and he’s like, “She doesn’t have Lyme.” That was on a Friday. On a Tuesday, she was diagnosed. The medical facility that we went to, I can’t even express enough how they just were wonderful with us. I mean, we literally had blood work done on Friday and on Monday, they were calling us saying, “Be prepared. We need you to come on down, pack your bags. We got to figure out what’s going on here.” So it was quick.
I’ve taken care of children that have had childhood cancer diagnoses. I don’t know, you don’t expect it to happen to your child. It’s not your child that’s going to get that. So we were blown away, and then the community was wonderful. My family has lived in this community forever, so everybody knows us, and it was just overwhelming. When Timmy got diagnosed, there was a wrestling match. First of all, when Timmy got diagnosed, it was like a Band-Aid being ripped off.
My daughter was in remission, and I think a lot of times when you’re first diagnosed, you don’t have the chance to process your feelings because you have a job to do. You’re the mom, you’ve got to keep everybody together and this is going to work out okay. You don’t have time to go through everything, you’re very focused. So when Timmy got diagnosed, it literally was like a Band-Aid was ripped off. We were starting to heal and then it just… Flood of emotions occurred.
There was a wrestling match between Troy and Canton that was occurring and Troy wanted to do something. I said, “Well, let’s put a basket together.” I reached out on Facebook and this basket was like, I mean, I can’t even begin to tell you how much people donated to this basket. My daughter then said to me after everybody participated that she really wanted to make sure everybody got the same attention, that it wasn’t just two kids that are popular in the community that get this attention, that it’s every child in this community gets the same amount of attention.
I said okay, and then there was a couple other things that occurred along the way that I reached out and the community helped us and then came the Gold Out game. Timmy was out of chemo and I called Michelle up and said, “Hey, I have this idea. What do you think?” She’s like, “I think it’s a great idea.” We presented it to the school districts that were involved, and the rest is history.
Michelle Ward (08:09): Yes.
Tracey Weldy (08:09): Yeah. The rest is history.
Stormy Bell (08:14): Wow. Having grown up in Bradford County, I know firsthand about how the community can rally around a family. [I’ve] been to several dinners in benefit of whoever it is. We come out in force.
Tracey Weldy (08:30): Yes, we do. We definitely take care of our people.
Michelle Ward (08:31): Yes, for sure.
Stormy Bell (08:34): Everyone in your organization’s volunteer, correct?
Tracey Weldy (08:42): Yes.
Stormy Bell (08:43): How do they volunteer? Just share a little bit about that.
Tracey Weldy (08:49): Do you want to go, Michelle?
Michelle Ward (08:51): Sure. First off, we actually have an official board, which they as well are all volunteers. Obviously we have a president, a vice president, a treasurer. We have started some subcommittees that different people are involved with so that we have the extra support when we are starting a fundraiser or doing a fundraiser that they can be in charge of. All of our board members are volunteers to start with.
Each one has placed themselves in a specific role, just basically wherever they feel comfortable. If they’re not comfortable going out into the community and going face-to-face with local business members to even just let them know that we’re having a fundraiser coming up and we would like their help, that’s fine. They have other behind the scenes items that they do. We have others, Tracey, for example, who is not afraid to hit the pavement and out on the sidewalk, and she’s out there speaking to local businesses and helping them get involved and inviting them to come on board with us.
We have a board that has self-proclaimed jobs, specific jobs that they do, that they feel comfortable with. Then we have volunteers depending on the type of fundraiser we are being involved with or hosting. Back this winter, we had a poker tournament. Obviously, we had several participants. The board members were all very active in volunteering to help with that poker tournament but we also had other ladies and gentlemen who came in and donated their time, just even by serving the dinner that we had that day. I mean, it goes from the very least to the very top. Everyone is more than happy to help support us.
Stormy Bell (11:01): That’s awesome. About how many people is that? I guess on the board, and then when you have special events, how does that increase for the number of volunteers?
Michelle Ward (11:10): Our board members, we currently have five. Okay, let me count, because I got to make sure. Is five right, Tracey?
Tracey Weldy (11:19): Yes.
Michelle Ward (11:21): Yes-
Tracey Weldy (11:21): No.
Michelle Ward (11:22): Six! We have six.
Tracey Weldy (11:24): Six, because we’re missing one. We have an open board position.
Michelle Ward (11:29): Correct. So we have six board members that are active participants and volunteer all of their time. Depending on the event is when we decide how many volunteers we need. How large the event’s going to be. If it’s going to be indoors, outdoors, are we serving dinner? Is a local facility like a restaurant, a golf course, are they involved? Every single person that is involved depending on the size of our fundraiser is a volunteer.
Stormy Bell (12:05): Okay. Very cool. So you became a 501(c)(3), what? 2019?
Tracey Weldy (12:16): We actually filed the paperwork in December of 2019. Yes.
Stormy Bell (12:25): Well, since you filed the paperwork, how many families have you helped?
Tracey Weldy (12:33): Well, it’s kinda funny because when we opened up the Gold Out game for any child who had gone through childhood cancer and was a survivor, to let us know, and we would recognize them at the game. We have those families that came into our organization even before our organization was formed. Since we’ve actually been a 501(c)(3), we have four families that have been diagnosed since then but we had a couple families that still were going through treatment that we are supporting still.
Michelle Ward (13:20): Correct.
Stormy Bell (13:24): My first guest that I had on The Art of Volunteering was Sami Gray, and she is a childhood cancer survivor, and she lives out in the Wyoming/Idaho area. One of the organizations she volunteers with is Jason’s Friends, and they raise financial assistance for families but it’s more restricted that it’s for the family coming and going to their treatments, like for gas, accommodations. Do you have restrictions on your assistance or is it more broad?
Michelle Ward (13:58): Our assistance I would say is more broad. It depends on what the family needs at the time, because each journey is different for each family. Yes, if they need gas cards, we get them gas cards. It depends on how many times a week or a month they have to go for treatments, if that is an issue. If it’s a family that is truly struggling financially due to the diagnosis, a lot of times, either one or both of the parents can no longer work.
I mean, it’s not only just the child you have with cancer, you also have the rest of your children to consider as far as moving on with life, activities, normal day items. So there are several times when both parent members or at least one can no longer go to work. When that becomes an issue financially for them to be able to sustain their housing or groceries or anything like that, we are more than happy to step in and get grocery cards, or we will pay their rent, or if they have medical bills that are not covered by their insurance due to copays, we will take care of those. So ours is not restricted.
Stormy Bell (15:21): Not so restricted. It’s broad.
Michelle Ward (15:24): Correct.
Stormy Bell (15:25): Wow. With that, everything you do is really fundraising. You don’t do any programming support groups or do you?
Tracey Weldy (15:39): Well, we are starting to.
Stormy Bell (15:43): Oh, okay, perfect.
Tracey Weldy (15:46): It’s not so much a support group as it is more of all of us being together as they’re our family. This past year, we invited everyone that’s a part of our organization to go on this hayride at [this] place called Miller Mazes. They have mazes and hayrides, and it was a really fun evening. It gives a chance for all the families to be together. You don’t know what it’s like to go through it unless you’ve been through it.
Even though every journey is different and outcome is different, the story’s different, how it impacts them is different, we at least get the emotions. We understand what they’re feeling. We also had a roller skating party. We hope to build upon this a little bit more. We had one child finish up chemotherapy recently, and we’ve got the fire trucks involved and they paraded the family home. We have another one coming up here in August that we’re planning that we’re going to do the same thing. We have another little boy in October, same thing, we decorate their yard and we make a big deal out of it, because it is a big deal, finishing up chemotherapy and ringing that bell.
Stormy Bell (17:13): It is.
Tracey Weldy (17:18): Our Gold Out game was for two kiddos. The one little girl who it was for actually passed away. She passed away March 14th, 2020. The shutdown was March 15th, 2020 so there [were] a lot of issues there. One thing that we have done since then every August around her birthday, we hold a blood drive in her memory.
We take in donations for the Ronald McDonald House as well, because they lived a lot out of Ronald McDonald Houses. She was sent all over the place trying to find a cure, a miracle, so they spent a lot of time in those houses. We know how important the Ronald McDonald House is to our kids and not just our kids, but any family that needs to use the Ronald McDonald House. To be able to have lodging is extremely important, so we do the blood drive.
Last year in October, you’ll know, the Canton/Troy football game, big rivalry game, we decided the Ronald McDonald House collects aluminum tabs, they turn that in for money. They use that money for their daily operations. Well, we have a competition now that’s ongoing and it has really taken off. It’s called the Tab War, and the schools collect these tabs and whatever school collects the most pounds wins. I think what was it, Michelle? 1,300 pounds of tabs that [were] collected last year?
Michelle Ward (19:06): Yes.
Tracey Weldy (19:08): Crazy amount of tabs, and this year’s going to be even better because [of] all the surrounding communities. I have tab collections in Towanda and Wysox.
Michelle Ward (19:19): As of right now, the day after the results from the Tab War, I mean, the moment the tabs were weighed, everyone was back on board, they were already reporting to us the very next day, “Oh my gosh, we already started saving our tabs for next year.” Everyone was just so excited about these tabs.
Tracey Weldy (19:39): It’s amazing, because it costs nothing to anybody!
Stormy Bell (19:43): So they convert it for funds, how much is a tab actually worth?
Tracey Weldy (19:50): It depends on what the price of aluminum is when you turn them in. I do know, a rough estimate of the tabs that we took down last year, I figured out was like $756. That cost nobody anything, because all they had to do was turn their tabs in.
Stormy Bell (20:10): It gets not just Canton or Troy, you’re talking counties are getting involved in this.
Tracey Weldy (20:17): Correct.
Michelle Ward (20:18): Yes.
Tracey Weldy (20:19): It benefits not just our kids, not kids battling cancer, but all the kids that have to use Geisinger Danville Medical Center and need to stay at the Ronald McDonald House.
Stormy Bell (20:32): Wow. That’s cool.
Michelle Ward (20:35): It is pretty cool.
Stormy Bell (20:37): That’s just really cool. Let’s see, you’ve mentioned this a couple of times, but can you tell me about the Gold Out game, or event?
Michelle Ward (20:55): I’ll start, but Tracey was the true mastermind behind this football game. Obviously, my son was a member of the Canton football team. We thought it being almost appropriate that we turn a football game into a Gold Out game, where everyone’s wearing gold, everyone’s yellow, everyone is talking about and making donations towards these two families. They were on board with us. Obviously, they were very aware of what was about to happen.
Like Tracey said, open invitation to any child or family that wanted to participate with us that was a childhood cancer survivor, or was a member of the family who had a childhood cancer diagnosis, open invitation. It truly was unbelievable how many came up, had a great time, that live just in our local counties. It was truly unbelievable. So that’s how it started. It was just going to be a football game. We were going to sell a couple t-shirts. We just wanted to raise some money for these kids. No idea what was about to happen.
Stormy Bell (22:26): Got a snicker. Let’s keep this going. There’s more to it.
Michelle Ward (22:30): Yes, Tracey?
Tracey Weldy (22:31): Well, I think I’m a little weird. I wake up with ideas, sometimes. My board, they get-
Michelle Ward (22:39): I just want to say, really, really early, she wakes up with ideas and when those ideas pop into her head, she immediately sends them to us board members in a message. I am not a morning girl. Never have been, never will be, and my phone and I’m talking early, early, ding, ding. My husband is laying in bed next to me going, “Oh, is that Tracey again?” Yep. It’s Tracey.
Tracey Weldy (23:04): I literally wake up with ideas. I don’t know. If I don’t get them out, then I got to get them out right then. Some of them are crazy ideas and everyone has to talk me down and then some of them have a little merit to them. I woke up one morning and I knew that little girl and little boy, I knew they did not have very successful fundraisers on their own with their families.
I was trying to think of ideas, and then I woke up one morning and I’m like, “Well, let’s just look at a football game, because football brings money in.” It just does, especially for our area. I knew I wanted to look at a football game. Well, then I happened to see that Canton was playing Athens at Athens, and these two kiddos are from Athens. Well, Timmy’s a popular boy. Everybody loves Timmy. What’s not to love about Timmy? He’s like the comeback kid. I mean, honestly, he’s what Disney movies are made about. Timmy’s just coming off of his cancer so everybody’s still on the Timmy Ward, supporting him.
Tracey Weldy (24:26): I take opportunity when it’s there and I’m like, “Oh.” So I called Michelle. I told her my idea. She’s like, “Yeah, I think it’s a great idea, reach out.” I reached out to Athens superintendent and he was like, “I think this is a fantastic idea,” and I don’t think he really thought it was going to be as big as it was either.
He got me in touch with their high school principal, and it also happened to be their homecoming. So it made it even that more big. As we got doing this, I was like, “Okay, well, let’s get a little public into this.” I use Facebook for everything. It’s the only thing I use. I don’t know how to make a TikTok video. I know how to watch them, I know to share them, but I don’t know how to make one. Same with Instagram. I know how to look at it, I don’t know how to do any of it.
I’m on Facebook posting daily about different things about it, so I’m getting momentum on it. We have the kids go into Wiggle, which is our old radio station. It’s getting more momentum. Then we have news stations coming in and doing interviews and getting more momentum. Like I said, Michelle said we thought we’d sell a couple t-shirts. Yeah, well, what did we plan Michelle originally?
Michelle Ward (26:00): Oh, my-
Tracey Weldy (26:00): How many t-shirts did we-
Michelle Ward (26:02): I don’t even know how many we actually planned for. I think in our heads, we were like, “Oh, maybe 100 shirts between both schools and both football teams, maybe we’ll get 100 out there or whatever.”
Tracey Weldy (26:16): Yeah. So the schools sent home with every child an order form for the t-shirts. We had sold how many t-shirts?
Michelle Ward (26:30): I’m going to say 950 t-shirts. Yes.
Stormy Bell (26:33): Wow.
Tracey Weldy (26:33): It was crazy. It was a crazy, crazy week. We had penny wars. The school district between Canton and Athens that brought in the most money would get an ice cream party. Well, they did so phenomenal. I mean, how much? I think it was like $5,000 almost that they-
Stormy Bell (26:57): Wow.
Michelle Ward (26:57): In coins.
Tracey Weldy (26:57): In coins, yeah. I mean, it was crazy. I had bruises because we did the big Culligan water things, and they were all filled up, but I didn’t think that through to dump them, so I was using my… Oh, it was crazy. I dumped all those coins into a machine. Thank you. Guthrie Credit Union for letting me house up in that joint for two days, dumping them all in. It was like $5,000 between the two schools.
They did so phenomenal that the Bradford County Dairy Association thought both schools deserved an ice cream party, and both school districts got ice cream for every student and staff member from the Bradford County Dairy Association.
Michelle Ward (27:52): Can I just say, these kids, elementary students are always the first ones on board. Man, they are on it from the get-go.
Tracey Weldy (27:59): Oh, yeah, they love it. Yeah.
Michelle Ward (28:01): It is amazing. These kids were promised an ice cream. I mean, seriously, you get an ice cream cone or an ice cream sandwich if you win this. Holy Hannah, you would’ve thought we were going to give them a new car.
Tracey Weldy (28:16): Car!
Michelle Ward (28:17): Yeah.
Tracey Weldy (28:20): There was a homecoming parade and we had past cancer childhood survivors in this homecoming parade as well. I’ll tell that story afterwards. Our little girl who passed away, she actually was an honorary queen. Yeah, and the little boy, he’s actually not so little anymore and he’s going to be ringing the bell in October, he was our honorary king. It was just such a special, magical night. I don’t think I will have another night like that night in my entire life.
Michelle Ward (29:03): Never, never.
Tracey Weldy (29:03): The game itself brought in probably $25,000, approximately.
Michelle Ward (29:09): Correct.
Tracey Weldy (29:09): With everything, with donations at the door, with shirts being sold. We-
Michelle Ward (29:16): Our penny war.
Tracey Weldy (29:18): Penny war, the decals. You wanted us to touch base on that. My daughter’s from Troy and she played soccer and one of the moms said, “Cora’s very involved in this special football game. We should be doing something too to support our Troy student that’s helping to put on this game. How about our football players put decals on their helmets?” So it started with Troy. They were purchasing decals for their helmets to wear the night of this football game.
They were actually playing Towanda. It took off from there. Towanda found out, then Wyalusing found out, then Southern Tioga found out. Northern Tioga found out. They were all calling us, wanting to wear these decals on their helmets the night of this football game to show their support for their peers who have battled or will battle, and that they were there for them.
Michelle Ward (30:26): Yeah. It was amazing. It was absolutely amazing. Every tiny little tidbit of that game, just every little detail, things that we didn’t even plan for that just happened, every single detail of that evening was absolutely amazing. If you didn’t walk out of that high school football game feeling something, there was something wrong because it was truly mind-blowing. It was mind-blowing.
Tracey Weldy (30:56): Yeah. It was something to be seen.
Michelle Ward (31:00): Correct.
Stormy Bell (31:02): Wow. I almost don’t want to ask anymore questions. You just blew me away with all that.
Michelle Ward (31:08): It was an amazing night.
Stormy Bell (31:09): That’s amazing.
Michelle Ward (31:10): Yeah. It was amazing. We had a balloon release at half-time where people could purchase balloons and go out onto the football field and release them with their families. It was unbelievable.
Stormy Bell (31:25): Wow.
Tracey Weldy (31:33): There’s no way that you can go through childhood cancer and not have a little PTSD. I mean, it’s a traumatic event. One of the first things the doctors said to us when my daughter was considered no evidence of disease was get everyone in the family into some counseling. I’m like, “Well, we’re fine, but whatever.” I had my daughter see a counselor, she’s a very popular counselor in our area and does well with kids.
After this Gold Out game, she said to me, and one of our participants, now she’s not going to tell me who the participant is, but one of our childhood cancer survivors who participated in this parade, this counselor stressed to me how important and how healing this game was for her patient.
Stormy Bell (32:31): Wow.
Tracey Weldy (32:32): I was able to piece together who it was later, but I do know, the family has expressed to me how much she needed that recognition of what she went through.
Stormy Bell (32:46): Amazing.
Tracey Weldy (32:47): So, yeah, it just kept going. The positives of the game just kept going.
Michelle Ward (32:54): They did, they did.
Stormy Bell (32:57): Now, is this something you would do again, or do you think this was just organic, and it was just a one time, and can’t be replicated?
Tracey Weldy (33:05): I don’t think that game can ever be replicated. Athens has approached us to do another game this year. That was in 2019. We had COVID, we couldn’t go to football games and we could go to football games, but we still weren’t. This year, it looks like things are going to be normal, I hope.
Michelle Ward (33:32): Those exact moments and that game, I don’t feel like will ever be replicated. I mean, we can do things based on that game, but I think Tracey and I both know that game, those moments will never be the same. We can’t do that over. We love all the support. We love that people are coming to us asking if they can do something like a Gold Out game to raise funds or help families in the area. But that game? Never. Will never happen again.
Stormy Bell (34:07): Magical. It was just magical.
Tracey Weldy (34:08): It was. All the pieces came together and it was needed. It was needed in the community. It just will never work that way again.
Stormy Bell (34:20): Amazing.
Tracey Weldy (34:21): We’re okay with that. We know that and we don’t want to replace it because that’s our special, magical moment too, but we are working on doing something different. Athens would like to do it again, and we are working with them in trying to figure out a way that they can have an annual game that will bring some hype and be something that everyone looks forward to.
Stormy Bell (34:48): Oh, awesome. I’ll try to get home for that. All right. Now here’s a fun question, or at least I think it’s a fun question. Can you tell our listeners today about a blooper or something that didn’t go as planned and what you learned from it? Tracey?
Tracey Weldy (35:10): Well, I said the t-shirts, but really after I got telling you the story, it was having kids fill up those Culligan waters because I couldn’t even lift them. So yeah, I would have to say it was probably using Culligan water for money collection. Do not do that.
Michelle Ward (35:32): We have now downscaled not using those big water jugs anymore. We’ll use plastic containers that are much smaller, and easier to haul around and we’ll gladly sit more out. You can fill them all up, but it’s much easier.
Stormy Bell (35:49): We’re not going to get bruises again.
Tracey Weldy (35:51): No, no. We’re not doing that.
Michelle Ward (35:53): Tracey was covered in bruises.
Tracey Weldy (35:55): Not doing that again.
Stormy Bell (35:57): Okay. Now we’re at the point in the interview where I give you the floor, so you can love, just love on Kids Can’t Fight Cancer Alone and tell our friends why they should get involved.
Tracey Weldy (36:12): Who wants to go first?
Michelle Ward (36:15): Tracey, go ahead.
Tracey Weldy (36:21): For me, I love our families and I love our kids, and the most important thing I think with our nonprofit is others being involved helps me to help them. The more that other people get involved and participate in our nonprofit gives me the ability to help them more.
I do not want families worrying about how they’re going to pay their bills, if their job’s going to be okay. They’re worried about keeping their child alive. That’s the most important thing and I don’t want them thinking about anything else. I want them to know that we’re here for them and that we’re going to support them and they don’t need to worry about anything else. The rest, we’ll take care of it later. The more people get involved, the more we have the ability to help them.
Michelle Ward (37:25): Yes, I totally agree with everything Tracey said. For my family being involved in this, obviously it started as a way to give back, to help other people like those people helped us, but it has transformed into something bigger than even Tracey and I even can fathom as far as helping people, helping families. Basic needs, basic life, what we all require and wish for, that’s where we are. We just want to be able to help you, and it sounds like such a silly thing.
We want people to be as passionate about it as we are because we really care about it so much. These families are struggling to keep their child alive. One of the biggest fears as a parent, I’m only going to speak for myself, but would be to outlive my children in any shape or form. Knowing that families are going through this on a daily basis and they’re worried about putting gas in their car to get them to treatments. I don’t want them to have to think about anything else. My family and I want to be there for them and help them any possible way we can help them.
Stormy Bell (38:59): Awesome. How can our friends listening today connect with you?
Tracey Weldy (39:07): Facebook.
Michelle Ward (39:08): Facebook.
Stormy Bell (39:09): Facebook? Just find you on Facebook.
Tracey Weldy (39:10): Because we don’t know how to do anything else.
Stormy Bell (39:13): Oh, that’s right. You mentioned that. Then I will include that link in our show notes so they can go back and find you.
Michelle Ward (39:20): Thank you.
Stormy Bell (39:21): Michelle and Tracey, thank you so much for coming on The Art of Volunteering today, I’ve thoroughly enjoyed our conversation. It brings me home a little bit.
Tracey Weldy (39:32): Awesome. Thank you.
Michelle Ward (39:33): Thank you so much for having us.
Stormy Bell (39:35): You’re welcome. I look forward to seeing all of our listeners on our next Art of Volunteering podcast, as we continue to connect volunteers worldwide. Have a great day. Bye-bye.
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