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[0:00] Hello, Branchburg, and welcome to our presentation of the 2025 Ladies' Night Out, Pearls and Prosecoes
[0:09] the theme this year. This year's Ladies' Event is sponsored by the Megan Rose Bradley Foundation,
[0:16] which was established in December of 2004 in honor of the memory of Megan Bradley, who
[0:23] passed away on November 7th of 2004 due to pediatric brain cancer. In preserving her memory, the
[0:32] Megan Rose Bradley Foundation aims to raise public awareness and sponsor research for the
[0:38] cure for pediatric brain cancer. As you watch this video, please consider how you may volunteer
[0:46] to help this worthy cause in support of other families who face the same challenges as
[0:52] Megan and her family. Hi, I'm Eileen Bradley, and this is my husband, Bob. Hello. We're here
[1:04] from the Megan Rose Bradley Foundation. We're here tonight at our second biggest fundraiser
[1:09] of the year, Ladies' Night Out, at the Elks in Bridgewater. The Megan Rose Bradley Foundation
[1:17] is named after my daughter Megan, who at 16 on October 1st was diagnosed with a massive
[1:24] brain tumor that we did not know she had, but she was living her life that she always did,
[1:30] and we lost her 38 days later, November 7th, 2004. We were reeling from the diagnosis
[1:39] when we were figuring out what we were going to do, and when this all happened we decided
[1:45] that we did not want Megan's passing to go in vain. We wanted to make a difference for
[1:50] young people because pediatric brain cancer is much more prevalent than people realize.
[1:56] It ranges between the number one and your number two, cancer cause of death for children.
[2:06] It competes with leukemia and the blood cancers, but whether it's number one or
[2:10] number two, it's not acceptable, and there's very little research that is dedicated to it
[2:16] because it's so low on the totem pole, but the children are our future, and we need to make
[2:21] a difference. So far we've raised $673,000 for pediatric brain cancer research to
[2:28] prestige organizations such as New York Presbyterians and Columbia University, Pennsylvania State
[2:36] University College of Medicine, University of California at San Francisco, and we're
[2:43] working very hard to make a difference. We also try to educate the public about
[2:48] pediatric brain cancer, and we provide scholarships to high school seniors who
[2:54] emulate Megan's characteristics which had to do with leadership, compassion,
[2:59] kindness, and just being a good person and good grace. We also give out
[3:05] humanitarian service awards to eighth grade graduating students for doing things
[3:09] based on acts of kindness. Being kind to each other means much more to us than
[3:16] being the best student academically in a class because what matters is humanity,
[3:22] and if there was anything anybody needs to know about Megan, she was a very
[3:26] caring, loving individual, whether it was somebody who was her best friend,
[3:32] whether it was her teacher, whether it was somebody walking down the street
[3:35] or her family. So we work very hard at trying to make a difference. We could not
[3:41] save Megan, but we are working very hard to save
[3:45] everyone else's children because there is no room in our world
[3:49] for children to be stricken down with a brain tumor,
[3:53] or to be so compromised because the current treatments are so difficult
[3:59] for them to undergo, and then the residual effects they have later on.
[4:03] So I hope you'll join us in our fight against pediatric brain cancer,
[4:08] and you too can make a difference for a child to have a brighter future
[4:13] tomorrow. Thank you.
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