Profiles in Giving - Individual Generous donation warms cancer patients Karen Condon poses with the 100 hand-tied blankets she recently donated to the Dempsey Center. Karen Condon of Bowdoinham recently asked the Patrick Dempsey Center for Cancer Hope & Healing for assistance in distributing her hand-tied fleece blankets to area cancer patients. Condon's initial donation of 100 soft, warm blankets has been a huge hit with patients throughout the region. The Dempsey Center Sewing Group, which Condon is now a part of, will continue to help restock the supply. Oxford Hills student raises over $200 for Dempsey Center Oxford Hills student Amanda Farr presents a check for $213.65 to Mary Dempsey, left, and Kerry Irish. Oxford Hills Comprehensive High School senior Amanda Farr recently donated $213.65 to the Patrick Dempsey Center for Cancer Hope & Healing at Central Maine Medical Center. In honor of her grandfather, who is being treated for pancreatic cancer, Farr chose to do her senior project on cancer patients and their families. To raise funds, Farr, her friend Shikara and other OHCHS students, sold baked goods and colored ribbon pins. N.H. softball team donates over $5,000 to Dempsey Center The Litchfield, New Hampshire Girl’s Softball League recently raised over $5,000 through a walk-a-thon, and donated the entire amount to the Dempsey Center’s Children & Family Services Fund. The girls, who range in age from 4 to 13 years old, walked for a combined continuous 24 hours, some of them walking for as long as 16 hours apiece, and collected donations from their families and neighbors. The donation will support The Kid’s Comfort Pack Project that the Center is launching this fall.