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YMCA launches Corner Stone program for families dealing with cancer

By | November 1, 2018
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Lynch/van Otterloo YMCA Executive Director Gerald MacKillop helped create the Corner Stone program, which is a new initiative that supports cancer patients, cancer survivors and their families. (Spenser R. Hasak)
MARBLEHEAD — The YMCA’s role in the community has consistently evolved since the Young Men’s Christian Association was founded in 1844 as a refuge of Bible study and prayer for young men seeking escape from the taverns, brothels and hazards of life on the streets during the Industrial Revolution. It’s certainly come a long way…
Bill Brotherton
Bill Brotherton Brotherton is Features editor for the Daily Item. He is also editor of Essex Media Group’s North Shore Golf, 01907 and ONE magazines. A Beverly native and Suffolk University graduate, Bill recently retired from the Boston Herald, where he wrote about music, edited the Features section and was Editorial unit chairman for The Newspaper Guild-CWA local 31032. This is his second stint at the Item, having labored as Lifestyle editor back in the olden days, when New Wave and Hair Metal music ruled the airwaves.

Bill Brotherton can be reached at bbrotherton@itemlive.com

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