Benefit concert

OXFORD — The Resistance Ministries, a local nonprofit ministry, would like to announce that on Saturday, August 25, from 1 to 7 p.m., they are holding a special outdoor benefit concert hosted by Daddy O’s Restaurant, which is located on Route 26 in Oxford, just before the Oxford Plains Speedway.

The concert is to benefit the family of 15-year-old Cheyenne Rose Pollard who is confined to an electric wheelchair due to an illness called Spinal Muscular Atrophy or SMA for short.

The Pollard family, a family of seven, have only one car for transportation which cannot accommodate Cheyenne and her wheelchair. They’ve been trying to save money, with little success, to help them purchase a van outfitted with a chair lift that will allow Cheyenne to be able to take part in family trips.

Until they are able to purchase such a van the family has decided not to plan any family trips that would mean leaving Cheyenne at home.

The concert will include a great variety of New England’s best artists. Included in the lineup are The Lisa Gallant Seal Band, Salvation’s House, The Blacksmiths, The Peter Talbot Band, Dream In Purple, and The Eyes Of Elisha Band. The concert is free for anyone who wants to come.

Donations will be accepted and they are planning to have food and drink available along with a special dinner plate meal that will be sold to help raise money for the family. The bands will all have merchandise for sale with a portion of some of the sales also going to the family.

For more information please call 743-6982 or look The Cheyenne Pollard Benefit Concert up on Facebook.