The first Greene County Rams home football game is this Friday and fans are asked to help support a good cause.

Friday’s game against the Perry Bluejays is also dedicated to Childhood Cancer Awareness “Their Fight is My Fight” fundraiser. The high school football team, the athletic boosters and cheerleaders are asking fans to bring supplies of Silly Putty, Play-Doh or bubbles when they enter Linduska Field, with all donations to be given to Blank Children’s Hospital in Des Moines. Cheerleader Coach Shannon Black tells Raccoon Valley Radio this is the 4th year of supporting Childhood Cancer Awareness, which started in 2017 with just the cheerleaders through a national program by using gold pompoms, along with gold shirts, bows and other fundraisers. Black points out this is the 3rd year of hosting a Play-Doh drive, after a local youth, Avril Shahan was diagnosed with cancer. In 2018 and ‘19, over 6,000 containers of Play-Doh were raised for Blank Children’s Hospital, where Avril received cancer treatments. She adds, they wanted to include Silly Putty and bubbles to this year’s fundraiser. 

If you can’t make it to the game, donations will also be accepted all month long at Home State Bank or ShineOn Designs in Jefferson.