Marathon, memories and £3,450 for Macmillan Cancer

LOCAL lady Arlene Pettinger has completed her 10th marathon for Macmillan Cancer Support, in memory of her daughter Lisa.

Arlene took part in this year’s Deep River Rock Belfast City Marathon at the beginning of May, and has raised 3,450 for the charity, making a total of more than 43,200 over the years since her 1st marathon in 2002. Arlene attributes this to the very generous people of the town.

Macmillan aims to make a difference in the lives of all those living with cancer and their families.

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Arlene and her family found themselves needing support from Macmillan when her daughter Lisa was diagnosed with a brain tumour which required surgery and treatment, causing lots of travel to and from hospital, Macmillan were able to help with these costs, and provided a nurse when Lisa’s condition became worse, this enabled her to be at home with her family, until she died at 12 yrs old.

Arlene is delighted that the people of Ballymoney have, once again, shown such amazing support.

“I would like to thank everyone for their donations and sponsorship, I really appreciate their generosity, kindness, words of encouragement and prayers”, said Arlene

“I would like to give a special mention to friendship league teams of Glebeside and Loughguile, to Glebeside Rangers football team and to my employer David Smyth friends and colleagues at Glebeside Spar and our customers, they have all been great!”