$10,000 Raised for Life-Saving Lung Cancer Advocacy Group
Cancer Survivors Against Radon (CanSAR) received a check for $10,000 as the result of a donation campaign run by top indoor environmental health company, Spruce Environmental Technologies, Inc. CanSAR works to save lives from radon-induced lung cancer through awareness and political action.
Ward Hill, MA, March 8, 2016 (Newswire.com) - Just last week, executives from Spruce Environmental Technologies, Inc. presented Cancer Survivors Against Radon (CanSAR) President, Kyle Hoylman, with a check for $10,000. The company’s call for donations to CanSAR began in mid-January of this year in conjunction with National Radon Action Month. Spruce asked each of its customers to add $5.00 onto their product orders through February with the promise of matching the total, dollar for dollar, with the goal of significantly benefitting this life-saving organization.
Spruce has been a supporter of CanSAR since its founding over ten years ago by radon-induced lung cancer victim and advocate, Liz Hoffmann. Through Spruce’s RadonAway® division, the company is the world’s leading radon fan manufacturer, providing products for healthier indoor air to professionals around the world. Spruce and CanSAR share a commitment to creating a world in which thousands of loved ones will not be lost to an insidious, preventable disease.
CanSAR is the one national nonprofit that gives a voice to radon-induced lung cancer victims, survivors, and their families, working toward increased radon testing and enacting legislative changes by raising radon awareness at community, state, and federal levels. Any home has the potential to have an elevated level of radon, and the only way to know if your home and family are affected is to test. The primary goal for CanSAR advocates is to see that every home is tested for radon gas, saving thousands of lives each year.
CanSAR founder Liz Hoffmann battled lung cancer for ten years, passing away in 2013 just months after testifying in front of Congress, something she had done before and felt was too important to miss. She stopped her chemotherapy for the week in order to make her trip possible. Her passion for changing the staggering death toll of 21,000 lives lost each year to this disease lives on in her memory and the efforts of CanSAR advocates to pass “Liz’s Law” in every state across America. This law adds a simple piece of paper to each real estate transaction, informing homebuyers of the benefits of testing for radon gas and treating their new home if elevated levels are found.
CanSAR volunteers have already helped to pass effective legislation in states like Minnesota, where there has been a 400% increase in mitigations, saving countless lives. Spruce will continue to support CanSAR as the organization moves forward, looking to bring together lung cancer victims and give them a voice, as well as a strong system of resources, to enact real legislative change.
A special thanks to the companies who donated as part of Spruce’s CanSAR Donation Campaign:
G.M.D. Construction, Inc.
S.W.A.T. Environmental
Radon Abatement Technologies
Radon Measurement & Elimination Services.
Superior Water & Air
Coletta Environmental
Radon Control Services (NC)
D.M.I.
Chapin Environmental, Inc.
Radon Mitigation Company
Isothermics Company
CNY Radon
Radon Systems, LLC
Affordable Radon Mitigation (PA)
Be Safe Radon
AAA Radon Services Inc.
Central Virginia Radon Specialists
Mark Mitchell Radon Mitigation
Safe Shelter Environmental
Advance Home Inspections
All Pro Radon
Environ-Tech
Radon Diagnostic Services
Peter Beaupre LLC
Protech Home & Business
McBride's Water Advantage
Radon Mitigation Co.
NE Radon Doctors
Radon Remedies
Brookside Environmental
Radon Tom, LLC
Professional Home Inspection Services
Tri-State Radon Specialist
Acceptable Environment
Radon Control Professionals South
Quackers Waterproofing& Basement Repair
First Choice R & R
Aaron Radon Mitigation
Jacobson Heating
HSW Radon Contractors LLC
Morning Star Inspection
Radon Clear LLC
Mitigation Tech
Selective Radon Services
P.M. Carabin Inc.
Osten Construction LTD
D & R Radon Specialists
Advanced Environmental, Inc
Appalachian Environmental Group
Steel City Radon
Carpenter Radon Mitigation
Thor Wiebe Home Inspection Service
Fine Line Inspections
Zito Construction
Northern Environmental
JK Radon, LLC
