Oscars-style night and special dental sessions in Dover to help rare cancer victim Kelly Turner
Published: 01:05, 28 January 2017
A dental surgery is donating money from a day’s hygiene sessions for teen cancer victim Kelly Turner.
The Sandilands Dental Studio in Dover will hand over the proceeds from each£48 appointment on Monday.
The surgery, at Fishmongers Lane in Dover, will also have a raffle and you can visit it at anytime during the last days of January to buy tickets.
Donation of prizes is also welcome.
The hygiene sessions are for about 30 minutes so you need to ring the surgery on 01304 201001 to book an appointment.
Events for Kelly continue tonight (Saturday) , with a Night at the Oscars with Kelly Turner from 7.30pm.
This is a red carpet event with a champagne reception, music from a DJ and a choral performance of a song adopted for Kelly, Proud.
Guests will be photographed when they arrive and there will be leg waxing session for braver men.
Kelly and her family are expected to be there.
This is billed as a black tie event but this is optional provided guests come in smart dress.
There will be an awards session for the best dressed.
Tickets are £15 and can be booked by calling 01304 226586 or bought at the door.
A session called Music to Brighten a Winter takes palce at the Beacon Church and Christian Centre tomorrow from 2.30pm. Tickets are £3 and payable at the door.
A fundraising night at the Priory Hotel at Station Approach, Dover is tomorrow from 6pm to 11pm.
Kelly, 16, of Dover has a rare form of cancer called desmoplastic round cell tumours, which affect only 30 teenagers a year worldwide.
She needs £1 million for full treatment, with surgery and immunotherapy, at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York.
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