From last year’s festival, Kelsey’s Dream was able to fund the opening carnival for Camp Dost, purchase 230 T-shirts for campers and counselors and provide 100 fleece-knot blankets. The organization also helped to start the snack pack program at the Janet Weis hospital so patients would have something small to eat in between treatments.

“When Kelsey was on steroids, she was always hungry, and she often had to wait at the hospital all day without getting a snack,” Mrs. Kuhns said. “It was so popular, even cancer patients who were not eating wanted to have one.”

Additionally, the organization has established a Teddies To Go program for newly diagnosed cancer patients at Geisinger, where children receive a kit to make their own stuffed animal. Mrs. Kuhns said the group would like to create a similar program at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, where Kelsey also went for treatment.

For information on Kelsey’s Fall Festival and the work of Kelsey’s Dream, visit www.kelseysdream.org.