The second annual Southcoast Health Bowl will be held on Saturday, February 7 at Wonder Bowl in New Bedford.
The event, reported by 1420 WBSM, is divided into two sessions. Bowlers can register online or in-person. The first session begins at 11 a.m. with in-person registration beginning at 10:00. The second session will begin at 1 p.m. Registration for the 1:00 session will be at noon. The competition is open to teams of six and offers pizza, shoe rentals, and t-shirts for all who participate.
The Southcoast Health Bowl benefits the Rhonda Couto Patient Comfort Fund, supporting patients receiving care at Fairhaven’s Southcoast Health Center and Fall River’s Charlton Memorial Hospital. The fund’s namesake, Rhonda Couto, died of ovarian cancer in 2015 after a two-year battle with the disease. She was 47 when she died.
The Rhonda Couto Patient Comfort Fund
The Rhonda Couto Fund helps patients and families by providing radiation robes, scarves, and chest port access shirts. Money also supports families who aren’t able to work because members are not well enough or need to drive loved ones to treatments and doctor’s appointments.
The fund was started by Rhonda’s husband, Kenny, who told WBSM his wife’s experience was overwhelming, but despite the diagnosis, sought to help those also suffering from ovarian cancer. In WBSM’s story, Kenny said his wife, “never complained. Her first thought was always about helping other people.”
