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Article: 12-year-old honored as 'Hero' Girl raises money for research on her sisters' disease -- cystic fibrosis
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- The Gazette
- Article date:
- July 23, 2005
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At age 12, Hanna Pelican is a seasoned fundraiser.
Since she was 5, the Colorado Springs girl has spoken to audiences
about cystic fibrosis, a genetic disease that severely affects the
respiratory and digestive systems. She has taken part in community
walks, held garage sales and manned lemonade stands, all to raise
money for the fight against cystic fibrosis.
It's a fight she takes personally: Her two sisters, Samantha, 24,
and Libby, 21, have the disease.
"The more people who know about it, the better," Hanna says. "The
more money that gets raised, the more research that gets done."
For her efforts, she was recently lauded as one of a dozen young
Huggable Heroes, winning a trip to New ...