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Gibsonton, FL \u2013 Aug 23, 2012 \u2013 East Bay fans attending the race scheduled for Sept. 1 will be encouraged to donate to the Torres family to assist in medical costs and living assistance.\u00a0 In Nov. of 2011, then two year old Alayna Torres was diagnosed with medullary epithelioma, a rare and extremely aggressive cancer.\u00a0 Alayna is currently undergoing daily radiation treatment and will soon begin chemotherapy to treat tumors on her spine, lungs and her pelvic area.<\/p>\n
Her father, Eric Torres is a native of Bradenton and is raising Alayna as a single parent.\u00a0 The medical costs and care for Alayna have exhausted all of Eric\u2019s funds and resources.\u00a0 Eric was literally homeless until today when thanks to friends in the area, have provided him space in their home.<\/p>\n
East Bay Raceway Park asks their fans, family and friends to donate as much as possible to help the Torres family during this difficult period.\u00a0 Drivers and employees will be \u201cpassing the hat\/helmet\u201d throughout the evening to help offset the astronomical costs of treatment and care for Alayna.\u00a0 \u201cThis is the most anyone has done to help Alayna and myself\u201d said Eric.\u00a0 \u201cWe are both thankful for everyone\u2019s thoughts and prayers and any money they can donate is greatly appreciated.\u201d<\/p>\n
An account has been set up for Alayna at C1 Bank in Riverview, FL.\u00a0 Donations can be made either by stopping by the bank or mailing your check to:<\/p>\n
C1 Bank<\/p>\n
10109 US Hwy 301 S<\/p>\n
Riverview, FL\u00a0 33578<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Gibsonton, FL \u2013 Aug 23, 2012 \u2013 East Bay fans attending the race scheduled for Sept. 1 will be encouraged to donate to the Torres […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"publish_to_discourse":"","publish_post_category":"","wpdc_auto_publish_overridden":"","wpdc_topic_tags":"","wpdc_pin_topic":"","wpdc_pin_until":"","discourse_post_id":"","discourse_permalink":"","wpdc_publishing_response":"","wpdc_publishing_error":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12,22,3,61,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-east-bay-raceway-park","category-featured","category-front-page-news","category-racing-news","category-upcoming-events"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/karnac.com\/flanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/karnac.com\/flanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/karnac.com\/flanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karnac.com\/flanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karnac.com\/flanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13240"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/karnac.com\/flanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13245,"href":"https:\/\/karnac.com\/flanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13240\/revisions\/13245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/karnac.com\/flanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karnac.com\/flanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karnac.com\/flanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}