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Gary Ivey
Hoover Mayor Gary Ivey is the honoree for this year’s James Bond Gala organized by the Radiation Oncology Accelerated Research group.
A Birmingham area cancer research support group is honoring Hoover Mayor Gary Ivey at the group’s fifth annual James Bond Gala, set for Jan. 30 at The Club.
The event is organized by Radiation Oncology Accelerated Research (ROAR), which started in 2009 as a way to fund personalized cancer research breakthroughs.
This year’s gala is titled “License to Cure” and will include a dinner, live auction and dancing. The band Total Assets will perform, and there will be “Bond girls” and a Crystal Head 007 martini bar and ice sculpture at the event.
Tickets cost $200 each, with proceeds going toward cancer research at the University of Alabama at Birmingham’s Department of Radiation Oncology. Many tickets already have been sold.
As a cancer survivor, Ivey said he makes an effort to reach out to others who are experiencing cancer.
“Everyone I know has been touched by cancer, including my mother, father and mother-in-law,” Ivey said.
Ivey said he hopes by reaching out and giving back to cancer research, his grandchildren can grow up in a world without the devastating effects of cancer.
Previous honorees for ROAR’s James Bond Galas have included Retirement Systems of Alabama CEO David Bronner, Realtor and author Barbara Dooley, former Alabama football player Jerry Duncan and Dr. Larry Lemak, the founder of Lemak Sports Medicine and Orthopedics.
For more information about this year’s gala or to see if tickets are still available, visit ROARtheCure.org or email ROARtheCure@gmail.com.
- Submitted by Sarah Moseley
