Five Things to Know Today

Wiffle ball, car washes and Arbor Day. Is summer here or what?

1. Montgomery Elementary sixth graders hold a car wash today from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Fire Department of Montgomery Township also holds a car wash from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. at its two stations: 202 and Montgomery Drive, and 325 Stump Road. 2. The Great Strides walk takes place today at 10 a.m. at Central Park in Doylestown. Great Strides is a nonprofit organization dedicated to finding a cure for cystic fibrosis. Montgomery Township resident and Lansdale Catholic student Veronica Grosse will lead Team Sam’s Story, in memory of her sister, Samantha, who died of the disease. 3. Montgomery Township celebrates Arbor Day with education sessions and tree giveaways to residents beginning at 9 a.m. and ending when all trees have been distributed. Trees …

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In Memory of Samantha

This week's Whiz Kid, Veronica Grosse, continues to work on bringing awareness to Cystic Fibrosis, a disease that took the life of her best friend and sister Samantha.

Veronica Grosse, of Montgomery Township, knows her purpose in life. The 15-year-old Lansdale Catholic student, and this week’s Whiz Kid, is meant to bring awareness to the effects and consequences of an untreatable genetic disease called cystic fibrosis (CF). The disease took the life of her best friend—her sister, Samantha, a Gwynedd-Mercy Academy graduate— in November 2009 at age 22. “It was rough,” Veronica said. “Me and my sister were really close.” She said when someone has CF, you don’t know it. Cystic fibrosis causes, among other things, scarring and cyst formation within the pancreas. The most serious symptom is difficulty breathing, and it can result in frequent lung infections. Although Samantha fought the disease all her young …

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