Franklin car dealership gives $30K to local cancer charity

By Kristina Tedeschi Wayne For The Bulletin FRANKLIN – Since its founding six years ago, Sails Up 4 Cancer has donated thousands of dollars to organizations, including the Children’s Cancer Research Fund and the Visiting Nurses Association of Southeast Connecticut. It also has helped dozens of New London County cancer patients pay their bills and put food on the table. On Tuesday morning, Bob Davis, a two-time cancer survivor, avid sailor and the founder and CEO of the nonprofit Sails … read more

Kindness in Real Life: Davis keeps Sails Up in cancer fight

Bob Davis of Niantic has both survived cancer and thrived with cancer. In 2004, Bob and his wife, Karen, spent her birthday at the oncologist’s office, where he learned that he had Leukemia, more specifically, Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia (CLL). As scary as it was, he learned that if diagnosed with leukemia, CLL is the “best” one to have. After six years of living with CLL, Bob had an endoscopy because of difficulty swallowing. Davis was told “not to worry, they … read more