INSIDE THE KINGDOM July 27, 2016 the Chronicle Section B – 20 Pages Hundreds turn out for Brewfest cancer benefit by Joseph Gresser to a disease you live with.” One of the side effects of the NEWPORT — For Brian Cook treatment is that doctors and hosting a benefit to aid local cancer patients have an opportunity to patients at his brewery here makes build long-lasting relationships. perfect sense. Looking around, Dr. Lockridge “Everybody knows somebody said, “There are lots of survivors who has cancer, and everybody here today. Nothing makes me knows somebody who likes beer,” happier than to see them. They the brewer said Saturday can live their normal lives.” afternoon. “It’s a great way to Mary Lee Daigle, one of Dr. celebrate. Lockridge’s patients, was doing Mr. Cook and his wife, Jenn, more than surviving Saturday. who own and operate Kingdom She was one of those in charge of Brewing off Route 105 west of music for the event, and also a Newport, were a major part of the performer. creation of what is becoming an Ms. Daigle said she was friends annual event, said Dr. Leslie with Dr. Lockridge before being Lockridge of the Northeast diagnosed with cancer. She worked Kingdom Hematology Oncology at an inn he frequently visited. Clinic (NEKHO). When she learned of her It’s his Newport practice that condition from a doctor based in gets the money raised by Brewfest, Morrisville, Ms. Daigle said she and uses it to help patients with was happy to be able to get the kinds of expenses that are not treatment nearer to home and from covered by insurance. a friend. Those include co-pays for As they developed friendships medication as well as gas and with patients, Dr. Lockridge and grocery cards, Dr. Lockridge said. the rest of the staff at NEKHO Last year, the first Brewfest realized patients were facing Greyson Noyes checks out raffle tickets with the help of his mother, Kaleigh Noyes. attracted between 350 and 400 problems outside the medical Photos by Joseph Gresser people and raised $14,000 for the realm. For instance, some had fund, he said. This year, the trouble paying for gas to get them second for the event, about 600 to radiation treatment in St. folks showed up, although many Johnsbury. left early due to a burst of foul With that in mind he set up the weather. patient fund. Dr. Lockridge said he Dr. Lockridge said it will take a tried to raise money to help patients couple of days to work out how for some time, but found out he was much the 2016 edition of the party not very good at fund-raising. took in. “The idea for Brewfest came He said 100 percent of the about, like a lot of great ideas, at a money raised goes to patients, and bar,” he recalled. “I came here to a 100 percent is spent locally. tasting and talked to Jenn Cook.” The fact that such a fund is Dr. Lockridge said Ms. Cook even necessary is a testament to had been his hygienist since he improvements in cancer treatment opened his practice two years in the two decades he has been earlier. She and her husband practicing, the doctor said. suggested holding an event at their In the early days of brewery. chemotherapy every cancer was “I didn’t think it would be this treated with the same drugs. big,” Dr. Lockridge said. “I thought “The idea was to kill cells,” he it would be an intimate gathering said. “Chemotherapy kills cancer where friends would play music.” cells and healthy cells as well.” The three kept discussing the Treatment in those days was idea, he recalled, “and the more we hit or miss, Dr. Lockridge talked the bigger we got. continued. In addition to the Cooks, other “If it worked, it worked,” he local businesses have aided the said. “We didn’t know people that effort by donating items for auction long.” or food for the all-you-can-eat Dr. Leslie Lockridge prepares for a prize drawing at the end of Saturday’s Brewfest. Today doctors are using what dinner that came with admission to The event, held at Kingdom Brewing in Newport, raised money to help cancer Dr. Lockridge called “targeted Brewfest. patients handle prescription co-pays as well as gas and groceries. therapy.” The new type of “If the weather had held, I treatment is more narrowly think we might have run out of and another 60 to 70 pounds of Heller’s cooking, and enjoying tailored to the patient’s disease, food,” Dr. Lockridge said. hamburgers. music played by local musicians and designed to “shut down” the As it was, there was plenty to That’s not to mention the side from a small stage behind the patient’s cancer, he said. eat, courtesy of chef Justin Heller, dishes, which weighed the serving brewery building. It’s much more narrowly who worked with Tyler Howard to tables down. In midafternoon it began to focused and much less harmful to turn out a barbecued feast. Local merchants donated much rain, but partygoers just moved healthy cells. Mr. Heller showed off the of the food, he said. under the shelter of a few tents and Dr. Lockridge said targeted smoker he built, putting it to the The event got off to a great kept eating, drinking, and dancing. therapy does not cure more test as he cooked eight 12- to 15- start early Saturday afternoon, When the rain became patients, “but it has changed pound beef briskets, two dozen with guests enjoying a variety of torrential and was joined by cancer from a disease you die from racks of ribs, 80 pounds of chicken, the Cooks’ brews, dining on Mr. (Continued on page 20B.) IN THIS WEEKLY SECTION, YOU’LL FIND: BIRTHS l WEDDINGS/ENGAGEMENTS l OBITUARIES l KINGDOM CALENDAR l CLASSIFIED ADS l RESTAURANTS & ENTERTAINMENT l REAL ESTATE & AUCTIONS l YOURS FROM THE PERIMETER l RUMINATIONS l AND MORE! Page 2B the Chronicle, July 27, 2016 Ruminations On soup and camping with chickens by Jef Barker teenagers, dogs, and chickens? When we got up in the morning, Why would anyone ruminate we had plenty of time to explore the about a recipe for hot soup in the woods around the campground and middle of a crazy hot summer? have some amazing photos of the Well, this particular bowl of flora and fauna — well, not fauna soup won’t actually be made until (animal life) exactly, but I do have a late fall and will be over a year in cool picture of a crazy looking the making. caterpillar. This story is about soup, but it’s The third day was to be one of also about gardening and a 3,000- the longest — about ten hours of mile, cross-country journey with a driving. We got up around 7 a.m., trio of teenage girls, a pair of having just finished setting up camp neurotic eight-pound dogs, three at 11 p.m. the night before, pulled very confused chickens, and a pair out, and two miles up the road, blew of forty-something wannabe neo-gen a tire on the 16-foot U-Haul trailer back-to-the-landers. that now contained all of the It’s an homage to summer worldly possessions that were gardening in a state that boasts the accompanying us in our new life. most Google searches for It’s a good thing we had all of “gardening” and actually has four that delicious, nutritious soup filling seasons, unlike Arizona where we our bellies and soothing our souls. moved from. Otherwise, that might have been We lived in a subdivision, in a stressful. small town between Tucson and Ninety minutes later, we were Phoenix, literally in the middle of back on the road, and were soon the desert. A town “which had approaching the New Mexico-Texas consisted primarily of undeveloped border. “Are you kidding me! We’re desert and agriculture prior to not even to Texas yet?” is something 2000,” according to Wikipedia. I might have said if I were We started eating only organic susceptible to stress and anxiety. foods for health reasons and, not too It’s actually quite funny looking surprisingly, our grocery bill went back at all of the photos. Everyone up — a lot. looks like they’re having so much So we decided to get some fun. Well, except for Reynaldo, the chickens for eggs and to start a boy dog — he always looks terrified. garden. Obviously, pretty common The two dogs are half siblings, in Orleans County, but in Arizona, I same dad. They’re are half Maltese literally didn’t know anyone who and half Papillion, which means grew their own food. Oh, and our they’re super smart, have hair that homeowners association definitely is impossible to maintain, are How excited do chickens get when crossing state borders? This barred rock, named didn’t allow yard fowl. convinced that they’re a squirrel’s after the spicy penguin Lovelace, played by the late Robin Williams in Happy Feet, Hippocrates soup is a staple of worst nightmare (squirrels are so seems quite interested in what lies beyond the border of her home state, Arizona. the nutrition based health program much faster than them, it’s This is her first state border crossing with her big sister Lydia Barker, who had the we started in early 2014. ridiculous), and they are very easily brilliant idea of documenting the 3,000-mile journey from Arizona to Vermont with In Charlotte Gerson’s book, The offended.