Photo by Madoline Markham.
Pedia Trick or Treat
MBJH students are planning Pedia Trick or Treat for Halloween. Front row: Anna Rose Alexander, Isabele DeBuys, Jessie Holt, Claire Kimberlin. Back row: Brett Lewis, Olivia Rodrigues, Pierce Rodrigues, Sean Fredella, Chip Porter, Anna Wolter.
A group of trick-or-treaters will be looking for a different kind of treat this Halloween. Mountain Brook Junior High students will be trick-or-treating for donations for pediatric cancer research in honor of Sean Fredella.
Pedia Trick or Treat will kick off with a band party and silent auction in Crestline Village on Sunday, Sept. 27. Riverbend, a band of fellow ninth-graders formed through Mason Music, will perform, as well as Will and Sarah Mason. Those who attend will be encouraged to sign up to trick or treat for the cause. The event will also feature games, prizes from Mountain Brook merchants, a discounted meal from Urban Cookhouse and a silent auction.
Sean, now a ninth-grader at MBJH, and a committee of friends are organizing the Pedia Trick or Treat fundraiser and encouraging their peers to join them. They also hope that it helps raise awareness as they process in the Mystics of Mountain Brook parade, go from house to house and set up tables for donations at neighborhood parties.
Sean has now been cancer-free for three years. The community rallied around him by placing blue bows on mailboxes during his treatments in 2012 when he was a fifth-grader at Mountain Brook Elementary. He was first diagnosed with leukemia at age 2, and in 2011 he was diagnosed with a rare form of tumor, esthesioneuroblastoma.
To sign up or learn more, visit childrensal.kintera.org/centerforchildhoodcancer/pediatrickortreat.
