My name is Tim Nolan, and I’m a GMHS Class of 2018 grad who’s been fortunate enough to spend the last two years working as a sports anchor and reporter in Maryland — not all that long after I began this circuitous journalism route writing for the Drummer.
But this excerpt is not about the past but the future. Our future, given the likelihood your family has been afflicted by cancer in some way, shape or form, just like mine. For the past decade, my father has been biking the Pan-Mass Challenge in honor of his late brother. The ride spans 192 miles from Sturbridge to Provincetown in a single weekend, all to raise money for the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston. This August, I will be joining him for the first time. With that comes a minimum fundraising commitment of $6,000, a small fraction of this enormous charity ride set to eclipse $1 Billion in donations since the event’s inception.
While I’m not home to personally fundraise, I know I can count on the generosity of my home paper and town to help me reach this goal. If you’d like to donate, kindly search https://profile.pmc.org/TN0070/gallery, and there will be a tab on the homepage to contribute! You are more than welcome to leave a name in the donation note if there’s someone you’d like me to ride in memory of, and I’ll carry those names on my bike on race weekend. Thank you for your support!