The drive honors the memory of a former "Lion King" star who died at the age of 11 before she could find a bone marrow match.
Jurnee Farrell missed her playoff game, but did something much more important, donating stem cells to woman fighting leukemia.
"I come around the corner on our staircase and he is on the floor, gray." Five-year-old boy from the East Bay needs a bone marrow donor after being diagnosed with a certain type of Lymphoma. How you can help. By the way, "Be The Match" will be at Marin Elementary School on Saturday, September 21, from noon to 3:00pm.
Bone marrow transplants now cure 90 percent of all leukemia patients, but Daniel's case is an outlier. The family needs to find that one-in-a-million genetic match for a donor.
A birthday party in San Pedro over the weekend could end up saving a life.
Doctors say the leukemia has returned, so Susie Rabaca must find another bone marrow donor.