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Article: Baking cakes for cancer
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- Redlands Daily Facts
- Article date:
- May 1, 2009
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REDLANDS - Five-year-old Makenna Liess turned her love of baking
and cake-decorating television shows into a fundraiser for a
Southern California cancer treatment center.
In January, Makenna's uncle, Mark Hemmers of Yucaipa, died of
cancer. Makenna was very close to him and wanted to do something in
his memory.
"After he died, Makenna told her parents she wanted to raise
money for cancer patients like her uncle Mark," said family friend
Michelle Adair.
Prior to his death, Hemmers was treated at Premiere Oncology in
Santa Monica, where he participated in a clinical trial. The Liess
family was planning to donate to Premiere Oncology, but Makenna had
an idea of her own.
"She asked us if we ...