Just For Kix event raises more than $1K for local charities

The Just For Kix Dance program raised $1,200 for charity at its annual Kix for Kids fundraiser show last weekend in the Sidney Middle School gym.

The "Kick Cancer" event donated the proceeds to Kyra's Kisses, Madison Frerichs, Adeline Elder and to Sidney schools.

Kyra's Kisses is an organization named to remember Kyra Eads, who was diagnosed with a Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma (DIPG) brain tumor in December 2013 and died in April 2014. Frerichs was a healthy, active normal 10-year-old until August 2014 when she developed severe abdominal pain. More than 200 days and four hospitals later, d...