FOREST HILLS, Pa. — Cookies and kindness were the theme of an annual event to honor a 17-year-old who died from undiagnosed Chron’s Disease.
The Caileigh Lynn McDowell Foundation hosted the event at the Westinghouse Lodge in Forest Hills.
McDowell was a senior at Woodland Hills High School when she died in 2016.
The foundation in her honor has awarded over $80,000 in scholarship money to Woodland Hills High School seniors.
“She was genuinely a connector of people,” her aunt Lynn Banaszak said.
This was the first time the event was held in person in five years.
There was a cookie table, a hot chocolate bar, a bloom bar and a kindness pop-up shop.
The organization has distributed nearly 40,000 kindness cards.
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