'Care for Kara' concert planned

June 3, 2005

CASEY RESSLER/Frontiersman Valley Life editor

On June 17, Valley musicians are teaming up to help a Wasilla girl who must undergo a bone-marrow transplant later this year.

The Care for Kara concert will help raise money for Kara MacIver, a single mother who is battling leukemia. Tickets for the event are $20, or $25 at the door.

Scheduled to perform at the concert are Josh Fryfogle and the Getogether, Eric Warner and Jeremiah West, among others.

MacIver, who was diagnosed with chronic myeloid leukemia two summers ago, is traveling to Seattle for a bone-marrow transplant later this summer. For a week leading up to the transplant, all of her bone marrow will literally be killed off through chemotherapy treatment. Then, after the transplant, her body will begin to recover, thanks to a bone marrow donation.

When she returns home, she'll do so to a new house being built by the Mat-Su Home Builders Association. She has to live in a home that is specially built - it has to be totally isolated from bacteria and germs.

MacIver, 18, is also raising her 1 1/2-year-old son, Aaron, while she deals with leukemia, a bone-marrow transplant and trying to go to school.

The Care for Kara concert starts at 7 p.m. June 17, at Machetanz Theater (home of Valley Performing Arts) in Wasilla.

For more information, interested people may call 373-2022 and talk to Cindy.