To donate, go to wecan.tapcancerout.org/fundraiser/4451290, or send money to Alex Irwin’s Cash App at $Alexbjjsbg, or Venmo at Joshua-Irwin-2300. If cash or check, please leave it at The Oglethorpe Echo office in an envelope with his name on it. All proceeds go toward Tap Cancer Out and are due by May 20.
Alex Irwin poses with his grandmother Janice Messer at an OCES honors program several years ago. Irwin, who competes in jiu-jitsu, now raises money through Tap Cancer Out. (SUBMITTED PHOTO)
Alex Irwin displays the trophies and medals he has won in the Tap Cancer Out tournament. The Arnoldsville resident raises money in the memory of his grandmother Janice Messer, who died of liver cancer in 2017. (SUBMITTED PHOTO)
Janice Messer was diagnosed with stage 4 liver cancer on Feb. 25, 2017, and just a few weeks later, on March 7, she died.
For her grandson, Alex Irwin of Arnoldsvil...
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