Cheney's Rob Beamer was one of many area residents and Eastern Washington University students who stopped by Cheney's fire station Friday to swab their cheeks and register to be a bone marrow donor as part of the event organized by the Cheney Firefighters Union Local 1919 and the donor organization Be The Match. The event was staged to help 7-year-old London Bowater find a donor in her battle with acute lymphoblastic leukemia. A donor match was found for Bowater prior to last Friday, but that didn't stop 713 individuals, around 300 of which were EWU students taking anatomy and physiology class...
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