{"id":10045,"date":"2019-04-04T18:00:50","date_gmt":"2019-04-04T21:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelaker.ca\/?p=10045"},"modified":"2019-04-04T18:00:50","modified_gmt":"2019-04-04T21:00:50","slug":"going-racing-for-jdrf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/?p=10045","title":{"rendered":"Going racing for JDRF"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Beaver Bank girl and her friend organizing April 10 Racing for Research<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

BEAVER BANK: <\/strong>Two young girls are hoping the popularity of go-carting at Kartbahn will help them raise a lot of money for the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Aaliyah Cook of Beaver Bank and her best friend\n Cassidy Fletcher of Timberlea are the brains behind \u201cRacing for \nResearch\u201d set for April 10 at Kartbahn in Bayers Lake. It is set to run \nfrom 2-10 p.m. with all monies going to JDRF.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cook and Fletcher \nboth have held fundraisers in the past, and figured go-carting would \ngive them an avenue to attract a younger crowd and thus raise more money\n to hit their goal of $500.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When Cook was seven-years-old, she was\n diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes (T1D). It is an unpreventable autoimmune\n disorder and is totally different from T2D, which is what most people \nthink of when they hear diabetes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHaving T1D means that my body \ndoesn\u2019t make insulin anymore so I will need to take insulin for the rest\n of my life, or until we find a cure, through injections or an insulin \npump, which I have now,\u201d said Cook. \u201cMy life changed in a big way when I\n was diagnosed because I needed at least four injections every day, had \nto poke my fingers eight to 10 times a day to check my blood sugar. I \neven had to start counting every gram of carbs that I ate.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She started fundraising initially a few months after she was diagnosed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHearing stories about other people dying from T1D or having to live with long-term complications is really scary,\u201d said Cook.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fletcher wants to help raise the money with her friend to find a cure through the research.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why did they choose go-carting as a fundraiser?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt\n can get not only kids our age out that would have fun, but also their \nparents, our family member, and our parent\u2019s friends,\u201d said Cook. \u201cMy \nmom reached out to Lucas at Kartbahn and he was excited to help us. \nLucas and John have both been very helpful and supportive.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She said they will also have some board games and snacks set up in a room so that people can hang around before or after racing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cEveryone\n likes go-carting, and doing something that is so popular with youth \ngives us a better chance of lots of people showing up,\u201d said Fletcher.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The\n girls do have some prizes, such as a Google home mini for the fastest \nlap of the day, and a $75 gift card for Boston Pizza that will go to the\n workplace with the biggest turn out (as an incentive for people to \ninvite their colleagues). There are also a couple of smaller door \nprizes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cook, in Grade 8 at Harold T. Barrett Junior High, and \nFletcher, in Grade 8 at Ridgecliffe Middle School, said they have simple\n expectations for the event.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cOur goals are to spread awareness about T1D and raise as much money as possible to help fund research for a cure,\u201d said Cook.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Both girls said they may take up the challenge request from Reporter Pat Healey to race him on the track.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Beaver Bank girl and her friend organizing April 10 Racing for Research BEAVER BANK: Two young girls are hoping the popularity of go-carting at Kartbahn will help them raise a lot of money for the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF). Aaliyah Cook of Beaver Bank and her best friend Cassidy Fletcher of Timberlea are the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10046,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,12],"tags":[10,430,431,432],"class_list":["post-10045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","category-featured","tag-beaver-bank","tag-go-carting","tag-jdrf","tag-kartbahn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10045","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10045"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10045\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}