Butch Walker Donates $5,000 To The Hope Center

CARTERSVILLE, GA -- Cartersville native and musician Butch Walker recently gave back to an organization that helps patients fight cancer in Bartow County.

Walker made the announcement of his $5,000 donation to The Hope Center on his Facebook page. The photo of the oversized check, he added, was taken Jan. 6 following a concert he held at the Grand Theater in Cartersville.

Walker is the founder of the Autumn Leaves Project, which is raising money not only to fight pancreatic cancer, "but to concentrate on individual patients that need help paying their bills, special meals, gas money to and from treatments," he said.

"I'm very happy to be involved in this fight," Walker added.

According to its website, the Hope Center features radiation therapy services, the cancer registry, patient resource center, a healing garden, and centralizes a number of services for cancer patients and their families.

The facility is located on Cartersville Medical Center's campus, and is affiliated with the national network of HCA facilities based in Nashville.

Photo: from left to right are Cartersville Mayor Matt Santini, Butch Walker and Benny McDonald, CFO at Cartersville Medical Center and treasurer of the Hope Center Foundation. Credit: Butch Walker