If you go What: Spaghetti Dinner Benefit for Shawn Snyder When: 12 to 5 p.m. on Saturday Where: Brewerton Fire Department, 9625 Brewerton Road, Brewerton Cost: $15 at the door. Children 5 years old and younger free. For more information, call 532-5991 or 402-3277. Cicero, NY -- When an employee at the Home Depot in Cicero was diagnosed with...
Pete Snyder and his wife Shawn Snyder are shown in this undated family photo. Shawn is battling cervical cancer and is unable to return to work at Home Depot in Cicero. Her co-workers are helping her by organizing a spaghetti dinner benefit on Saturday.If you go
What: Spaghetti Dinner Benefit for Shawn Snyder
When: 12 to 5 p.m. on Saturday
Where: Brewerton Fire Department, 9625 Brewerton Road, Brewerton
Cost: $15 at the door. Children 5 years old and younger free.
For more information, call 532-5991 or 402-3277.
Cicero, NY -- When an employee at the Home Depot in Cicero was diagnosed with cancer her co-workers banded together and offered support and prayers.
Now after two years of battling cervical cancer, Shawn Snyder’s condition has worsened and her friends at the store are planning a spaghetti dinner benefit on Saturday to help raise money for her medical bills.
“I think we are one big family here at Home Depot,” said Tim Rose, front end supervisor. “We have close friendships and we share a bond. If something happens with one person we all jump in and do what we can to help.”
Snyder, who has worked at Home Depot on Brewerton Road for seven years, was diagnosed with cervical cancer in 2008. After chemotherapy and radiation the cancer went into remission and Snyder returned to work. A few months later the cancer returned, and doctors recently told Snyder that there was nothing more they could do, according to familiy.
“I’ve always considered my stepmother to be a very strong and beautiful woman,” said Emily Engelhard, 23. “Her outlook on the world has always been positive.”
Engelhard said Snyder has not given up hope that she will beat this illness.
“All Shawn talks about is the fact that she wants to go back to work,” said Pete Snyder, her husband. “She misses everyone she works with and misses helping the customers.”
Shawn Snyder, 48, of Hastings, has two daughters, Brianne Sentman, 25, and Julia Sentman, 18. Her passion is playing the guitar, Engelhard said.
“She’s the most beautiful when she’s playing her guitar and singing,” Engelhard said. “That’s when she’s happy.”
Home Depot employees have purchased 75 pounds of spaghetti for the benefit, Rose said. The benefit will feature raffles, silent and live auctions, door prizes and music, including a performance by Pete Snyder’s band, Taxed to Death.
“We are all praying for her,” Rose said. “We believe miracles do happen and that’s what we are hoping for.”