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What do you do after you lose a child? If you’re like Page and Tess Phillips, you make an attempt to ease the pain of other parents suffering through the illness of a child. When the Phillipses’ son, Cash, was diagnosed with Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA) and spent the last weeks of his life in the Children’s Hospital, there were times when they wanted a little nature to walk in, to leave the illness behind for a moment or two. After they lost Cash, they made it their goal to create such a place: the Cash Scanlon Phillips Healing Garden.
The website www.teamcash.blogspot.com was started by their friends and family to support the Phillipses; it’s now become an incredible tribute to their son and has helped raise most of the money for his garden. Tonight — on what would have been Cash’s first birthday — Team Cash is gathering at the Oriental Theater (4335 West 44th Avenue) for Cash’s Garden Benefit Concert, to raise the final amount to make Cash’s Garden a reality. There’s a silent auction, and the Railbenders, Long Road Home and emcee GerRee Hinshaw (from Freak Train) will all donate their time and talent.
Doors open at 7 p.m.; tickets, $20, are available by calling 303-550-4310 or visiting www.theorientaltheater.com. Go to the Team Cash website to learn more about Cash, his too-short life and his family and friends.
Fri., Jan. 18, 7 p.m., 2008
