For Pete's Sake, a Montgomery County cancer charity, is partnering with Woodloch Resort in the Poconos to open a facility dedicated to families coping with late-stage cancer.
For Pete's Sake, a Montgomery County cancer charity, is partnering with Woodloch Resort in the Poconos to open a facility dedicated to families coping with late-stage cancer.
“We had a chance to be Marci and Pete again — instead of Marci, Pete and cancer,” she wrote on the organization’s website., has partnered with the Woodloch Resort in the Poconos to open a respite center where families can spend a few nights away together to take a break from scans, tests, and doctor’s appointments.
Construction on the new facility, located next to Woodloch’s existing Hawley hotel, is expected to begin next spring, with plans to open in 2026. She created For Pete’s Sake after her husband, Pete, died of testicular cancer at age 30 in 1999. The organization provides free trips to patient families who are nominated by their oncology team.
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