CPD's No Shave November & Other Donations Nets Nearly $7,000 for Southern Ohio Survivors

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Practicing social distancing, Southern Ohio Survivors accepts checks from the Chillicothe Police Department’s No Shave November campaign. Pictured: Chillicothe Police Chief Ron Meyers, Sargent Micah Shanks, SOS Board member Avery Brown, Officer Terry Brown and SOS Representative Dan Ramey of Litter Media

The Chillicothe Police Department’s annual No Shave November campaign raised $2,470 for locally based cancer survivor advocate Southern Ohio Survivors.

“2020 has been challenging for non-profit organizations nationally and locally due to the pandemic” said Litter Media‘s Dan Ramey, representing SOS as former Vice President of the organization. “With the cancellation of SOS’s larger fundraisers like Paint The Creek and Rudolf Run and Glow Walk, they’ve taken a hit financially. We’re grateful the City of Chillicothe allowed the CPD to have their campaign once again and efforts like our friends at Backwoodz Oddities and Avery Brown and her friends for their donations. They mean the world to SOS and those they serve.”

Brown, a junior Board Member is a sophomore at Chillicothe High School who first began her Pink Pumpkin campaign as a third grade student at Bishop Flaget Elementary. The efforts by Avery and her friends over the years have raised well over $10,000 for SOS, including a $3,075 donation last October.

Backwoodz Oddities have selected SOS as a recipient of a portion of the proceeds from their annual “Last Carnival” haunted house on Valley Road in rural Ross County. Their 2020 donation of $1,287 gives groups like SOS a fighting chance to help those they regularly service with gas cards to help with expenses for cancer survivors to get to their treatments.

SOS is a 501(c)(3) non-profit dedicated to help cancer/chronic illness survivors live with, through, and beyond a diagnosis. All funds raised remain local. SOS is dedicated to inspiring the people of Southern Ohio to make a difference in the lives of Survivors through financial generosity and volunteer commitment.