Courageous Bears help lift spirits, raise funds for young cancer patients

When Saratoga’s Pam Dunnett saw 200 donated teddy bears sitting idle in the American Cancer Society’s Alameda office, she knew she couldn’t let the stuffed animals go to waste.

Dunnett, who works with the American Cancer Society, decided along with fellow volunteer Donna Adam, formerly of the Stanford Cancer Center Patient and Family Advisory Council, to start a donation campaign with the bears, selling them for $100 to help raise funds for childhood cancer research. Dunnett and other volunteers...