THE SCOTT HAMILTON CARES FOUNDATION. NEWS CHANNEL REPORTER MINA WAHAB SPOKE TO THE PARTICIPANTS ABOUT THE IMPORTANCE OF THIS FUNDRAISER. PEOPLE FROM ALL WALKS OF LIFE CAME OUT TO “ICE IN PARADISE” TO SKATE 35 LAPS IN HONOR OF THOSE WHO HAVE BATTLED CANCER. Rose, Ice Skater
“Cancer is so devastating to families. It takes their time and their energy and sometimes they feel completely alone. And so when you get a whole community like behind a cause, you know, you get these family units that don’t feel so, like alone anymore.”
THIS 5K FUNDRAISER BENEFITS CANCER RESEARCHERS, CANCER PATIENTS, AND THE SCOTT HAMILTON CARES FOUNDATION. THE FOUNDATION’S MISSION IS TO TURN CANCER UPSIDE DOWN JUST LIKE OLYMPIC FIGURE SKATER SCOTT HAMILTON’S ICONIC BACKFLIPS. THIS KID CAME IN FIRST PLACE AT SUNDAY’S FUNDRAISER, SKATING OVER 60 LAPS.
Calvin Riley III, Lives in Santa Barbara “I did wipe out like twice, but I did fall on my knees. That hurt a lot, but I just kept going.” HIS FRIEND EXPLAINS WHY THIS 5K CANCER FUNDRAISER IS IMPORTANT. “Roman Bacallao , Lives in Santa Barbara
“Many people that die every year for cancer. What happens if they get to die? What would happen they would live a good life.” FRANK ANDERSON IS NO STRANGER TO GRIEF. Frank Anderson, Figure Skating Instructor ” I’ve lost my mother, my father and my father in law to cancer.”
ANDERSON SURVIVED HIS BOUT WITH CANCER, BUT HE STILL VIVIDLY REMEMBERS THE DAY HE RECEIVED HIS DIAGNOSIS. Frank Anderson, Figure Skating Instructor “When you first get the diagnosis of cancer, you kind of panic because you don’t know what the future holds for you and you worry about your family,
How they’re going to do without you if you do it, if you can’t make it.” COMING OUT ON THE OTHER SIDE HAS BEEN LIFE CHANGING. Frank Anderson, Figure Skating Instructor “after you get through it, you have a good perspective on life and how fragile life really is.”
PARTICIPANTS HERE SAY ICE SKATING IS A HUGE LESSON IN STAYING PRESENT. Phong Do, Lives in Santa Barbara “Life is fleeting and short. Enjoy it and make the most out of it. Like, just don’t sit there on a couch. Don’t sit there on your phone.
Go out. How fun. Go ice skating.” IN GOLETA I’M NEWS CHANNEL REPORTER MINA WAHAB. . STILL AHEAD… THERE ARE CITY SQUIRELS AND
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