Light Up the Holidays with Hope’ is our Nation’s largest childhood cancer awareness event. The 9th annual holiday event will be held on Saturday December 6th, 2008, 6:30 pm EST at the Old Post Office Pavilion, 1100 Pennsylvania Ave N.W., Washington DC.

Each year during the December holiday season, a 23 foot tree is placed in the lobby of a building on Capitol Hill, Washington DC. The tree is solely decorated with thousands of gold ribbons (the symbol for childhood cancer), with each ribbon bearing the name of a child who has, or has had cancer. T he tree glitters strong in our nation’s capitol for all to see. Thousands each year are touched as they are reminded of our nation’s youngest cancer patients.

See the Candlelighters website for more information.

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