WISCASSET

Members of the Wiscasset Ambulance Service want to provide some help and encouragement for Tanya Bailey, one of their own, who is battling kidney cancer.

Toward that end, the Ambulance Service has scheduled a benefit supper for Bailey on Saturday, Nov. 17, at the Wiscasset Fire Department.

Home-baked beans, ham, chop suey and desserts will be served, by donation, from 4:30 to 7:30 p.m.

Roland Abbott, Ambulance Service director, said Bailey has no insurance. Her kidney cancer was diagnosed last spring, he said.

Bailey has gone through radiation treatment and is now undergoing chemotherapy, Abbott said.

“We decided we need to do something for her,” Abbott said. “Our association did a donation for her, but that was a drop in the bucket.”

Ambulance Service members are working together to prepare the food, Abbott said. They all want to help a person who is a great attribute to the community, he said.

“She’s a wicked nice woman — quiet, and will do anything that needs to be done,” he said. “She’s kept on working through most of this, until recently.”

lgrard@timesrecord.com