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Kids jump to help raise funds for Kelowna toddler with cancer

Kelownasa国际传媒檚 Jump2It hosted a fundraiser for Elara Isagawa

Local business Jump2It hosted a fundraiser for Kelowna toddler Elara Isagawa, who is currently in Vancouver undergoing cancer treatment.

Jump2It is an indoor playground, with inflatable slides and bouncy castles. Jump2Itsa国际传媒檚 marketing specialist Alexandra Krieger organized the fundraiser. She knows Elarasa国际传媒檚 grandmother personally and said she wanted to help the family using the tools she had.

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She added that the indoor playground was made for the community and this is their way of giving back to a city that has always supported them.

Elara was diagnosed with a tumour on Christmas Eve and has since gone through surgery to remove it.

She still has small tumour masses, but her family says theysa国际传媒檙e hopeful those will go away as she goes through chemotherapy.

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Twila Amato
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Twila was a radio reporter based in northern Vancouver Island. She won the Jack Webster Student Journalism Award while at BCIT and received a degree in ancient and modern Greek history from McGill University.
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