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Missouri’s lieutenant governor is praising Columbia-based MU Health Care for expanding the Red Slipper Warrior Project (RSWP).
Every little girl receiving cancer treatment at MU Health Care will receive a go-bag, sparkly slippers and a stuffed bunny rabbit, so they know they’re not fighting alone. Lieutenant Governor Mike Kehoe attended the recent announcement at a Columbia fraternity, and discussed his late sister, who lost her battle with childhood cancer.
“Well what Tim (Red Slipper Warrior Project founder Tim Tinnin) does and the Red Slipper Warrior Project does as you heard him say whether it’s a grown woman through shoes making them feel beautiful or giving them the bunny rabbit to make sure that they have somebody they think is on our side is very personal to us because my sister 62 years ago had a stick horse named Trigger that she would sleep with and lay with. And we lost my sister but my mom always lived kind of what she was about and the quality of her life and what that stick horse meant to her for the balance of my mother’s life,” Lt. Governor Kehoe says.
The RSWP was founded by Jefferson City’s Tim Tinnin after his late wife Angie was diagnosed with stage four colon cancer. She often remarked that she felt like cancer had become all she was. Mr. Tinnin tells 939 the Eagle that they have sent packages to 23 states, Canada and the United Kingdom, and they are thrilled to be launching the project on a wider scale at MU Health Care.
Missouri First Lady Teresa Parson is throwing her support behind the Red Slipper Warrior Project’s expansion, as they work with MU Health Care. Teresa Parson tells 939 the Eagle that she’s focused on children’s issues, as First Lady.
“I wanted to be here in support today of the Red Slipper Warrior Project because it’s a tremendous program for adults but now they’re moving into the children’s oncology here at MU Health Care, and so I definitely wanted to be here in support of all of the children across the state and of the Red Slipper Warrior Project,” Mrs. Parson says.
The announcement was made at Mizzou’s Theta Chi fraternity on Columbia’s East Stewart road.
