Chicken Mac Truck throws birthday bash on Friday to benefit Cincinnati Children's Hospital
Local entrepreneurs Jarod Maier and Casey Thiemann are celebrating one year of dishing up delicious macaroni and cheese with a first birthday bash from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Friday in Over-the-Rhine's Washington Park. The Chicken Mac Truck will donate 100 percent of proceeds to Cincinnati Children's Hospital to fund research on treating cancer and rare blood diseases. Maier and Thiemann said they have been personally affected by pediatric cancer in their own families, but they were also inspired by a local mom and her twin boys. Annie Hoobers son Aiden suffers from a rare disease called Langerhans cell histiocytosis LCH for short. LCH is a rare, inflammatory, cancerlike disorder that produces destructive and invasive tumors. Aiden was diagnosed with LCH when he was just 1 year old and began chemotherapy treatments immediately. A cure for LCH has yet to be discovered. Aiden, now 3 years old, is coincidentally celebrating one year of being chemo-free this month, thanks to his care at Cincinnati Childrens. Chicken Mac Truck chose to celebrate the Hoobers' good fortune with a community party to raise money and awareness for cures to pediatric cancer. We cannot thank Chicken Mac Truck enough for their partnership and amazingly generous support of LCH research, Hoober said. Cincinnati Childrens is one of the few places in the country where parents like me can turn for answers about this under-studied disease. My son had wonderful doctors, but we are still in a fight against this rare disease. We want to raise as much money as we can to help find a cure.
Local entrepreneurs Jarod Maier and Casey Thiemann are celebrating one year of dishing up delicious macaroni and cheese with a first birthday bash from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Friday in Over-the-Rhine's Washington Park. The Chicken Mac Truck will donate 100 percent of proceeds to Cincinnati Children's Hospital to fund research on treating cancer and rare blood diseases. Maier and Thiemann said they have been personally affected by pediatric cancer in their own families, but they were also inspired by a local mom and her twin boys. Annie Hoobers son Aiden suffers from a rare disease called Langerhans cell histiocytosis LCH for short. LCH is a rare, inflammatory, cancerlike disorder that produces destructive and invasive tumors. Aiden was diagnosed with LCH when he was just 1 year old and began chemotherapy treatments immediately. A cure for LCH has yet to be discovered. Aiden, now 3 years old, is coincidentally celebrating one year of being chemo-free this month, thanks to his care at Cincinnati Childrens. Chicken Mac Truck chose to celebrate the Hoobers' good fortune with a community party to raise money and awareness for cures to pediatric cancer. We cannot thank Chicken Mac Truck enough for their partnership and amazingly generous support of LCH research, Hoober said. Cincinnati Childrens is one of the few places in the country where parents like me can turn for answers about this under-studied disease. My son had wonderful doctors, but we are still in a fight against this rare disease. We want to raise as much money as we can to help find a cure.