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Nov 7, 2015

"If you want to make a difference in someone's life, you don't need to be gorgeous, rich, famous, brilliant or perfect. You just have to care." --Karen Salmansohn

A Small Town's Beautiful Gift to a Child

At two, Evan Leversage was diagnosed with brain cancer. In the five years since then he has been through extensive chemo and radiation treatments. When the family recently learned that his tumor had grown, and that there were no guarantees on how much time he had left, they had Evan make a bucket list. On it was a trip to Niagara Falls, a movie and his favorite restaurant. Also: Christmas. When Evan's mother Nicole Wellwood asked her family to celebrate Christmas in October, she had no idea that their little town would come together and take things to a whole new level.