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Benefit set for next Friday to help Walen with costs fighting cancer

Friends and family of Matt Walen have scheduled a benefit dinner and auction for the 1985 Havre High School graduate next Friday at the Eagles Club from 6 to 8 p.m.

The 1985 graduate and former Havre Daily News editor will not be at the event, as he will be in Aurora, Colorado, undergoing a second stem cell transplant in his third bout fighting cancer, but his wife, Milene, will be there.

Walen is undergoing treatment for myelodysplastic syndrome, inability of a person’s bone marrow to produce normal red blood cells.

Walen, who left the Havre Daily News in 2001 to start working for t...

 

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