A bowling event scheduled for later this month will help to raise funds for area cancer patients.

Strike Out Cancer will be held Oct. 23 from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. at Belt Bowl.  Registration begins at noon.  Proceeds from the event will benefit the Mosaic Life Care Cancer Care Patient Assistance Fund.  Megan Lott with a Oncology Social Worker with Mosaic and said the funds help in many different ways.

“Things that maybe the community agencies don’t cover, such as hotels.  We have people that travel from two hours away to come and do their treatment for their cancer care and a lot of times agencies don’t cover that,” Lott said. “A lot of times the biggest need we see is people don’t have gasoline to get back and forth for their treatments so a lot of times that’s the types of things we help with.”

Lott said the event is $25/per person which includes bowling, shoe rental, pizza and pop.

“We work with community agencies to try to help surround them with their services and this is sort of to help offset them with their costs,” Lott said.

Lott said during the Strike Out Cancer event there will also be a silent auction and a raffle.

While October is Breast Cancer Awareness month, Lott said funds raised from the event will go towards helping individual dealing with any type of cancer.

To register for the event CLICK HERE.  For more information on how to help out or about the event call Kitty Karr at (816) 262-2273.