Andover resident running NY Marathon
Kathleen Williamson of 3 Countryside Way in Andover will be running the New York Marathon on Sunday, Nov. 1. She will run as a member of Fred's Team, a group that raises money for cancer research at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York. Williamson is running in honor of her good friend Kurt Badenhausen who been treated at Sloan for mantle cell lymphoma, a currently incurable form of cancer.
If you would like to make a contribution to her fundraising efforts, visit her homepage at www.fredsteam.mskcc.org and enter runner name Kathleen Williamson.
Charlie's house
When the youth ministry at St. Augustine's Church heads to Jamaica they'll bring a piece of Andover with them.
The group has announced they are building a house in Kingston, Jamaica this winter and it will be named "Charlie's House." The naming is in honor of former Andover Selectman Charlie Wesson who died in Septemer. Wesson was very active in the parish. His widow, Mary Wesson, is planning to make the home-building trip in February. The Andover group will meet the family who will live in "Charlie's House."
To make a donation contact Katie LeBlanc at kleblanc@staugustineparish.org has more info.
- Judy Wakefield
Fuller guest at NH Speedway
Brig. Gen. Peter Nelson Fuller, born and raised in Andover, was the guest of the U.S. Army Racing team at NH Motor Speedway.
Fuller entered the Army nearly 30 years ago, and was commissioned a second lieutenant in 1980 after graduating from the University of Vermont, according to an Army release. He oversees Program Executive Office Soldier, which seeks "to increase soldier combat effectiveness, deliver products that save soldier lives and improve soldier quality of life." Fuller is also the commanding general for the Natick Soldier Systems Center.
On race day, Fuller spoke to community leaders from Massachusetts and New Hampshire on behalf of the Army and was given a tour of the garage, hauler and pit area, along with a chance to meet with the entire Army Racing team and driver Ryan Newman.
Wailes helps Cancer Society
Andover resident Jay Wailes along with friends and business associates Chuck DiCroce, Bob Kjellman, and Chris Casey participated in the American Cancer Society's fourth annual Hope Lodge Boston Invitational at the Kittansett Club in Marion. The event raised $120,000 to benefit the AstraZeneca Hope Lodge Center in Boston. For more information, or to participate in the fifth annual Hope Lodge Boston Invitationa, call the Cancer Society at 1-800-227-2345 or visit cancer.org/hopelodgebostoninvitational.
