2022 Recipients

Robin Hill

 Robin Hill is best known for her 20 years at the Eatonville Plaza market. Where she was a grocery checker/ produce lady. Her favorite part about working at Plaza is all the relationships she created with the customers. She also helped out with EYSA and cooked burgers during the Eatonville football games. She’s a Wife to Mike Hill and mom of 4 with 4 grandchildren that are her world! Last July she went into the doctors where they told her she had pancreatitis. In October an MRI and CAT scan revealed a small spot on her pancreas, but the doctors concluded it was nothing to be worried about. Fast forward to December, Robin visited Virginia Medical where they discovered she had pancreatic cancer. Since that time, she has been on chemotherapy 3 weeks on, one week off. She was also selected for a clinical trial out of Israel. For the trial treatment she wears a pack that sends radio waves to attack the cancer. Robin has an awesome support group that includes her family, friends, and a world-renowned team of doctors.

Robin's testimony after the 2022 Wild Game Feed:

 Hello, my name is Robin Hill. In March of 2022 I received the very unfortunate news that I had pancreatic cancer and would immediately start chemotherapy treatments. Not long after starting chemo and learning how to live this new life I realized I would no longer be able to work and live the same life I did prior to cancer. I worked at Plaza Market in Eatonville for over 20 years. Working in this small community I got to know so many individuals over the years and loved how close the community is. Finding out I would not be able to work and support my family was also hard and stressful, my husband Mike had a stroke and had cancer of the throat and was no longer working at the time due to that as well.   Soon after what felt like bad news after bad news, I received an amazing call from individuals from the Eatonville Wild Game Feed, that I would be that year’s recipient. To say I was both overwhelmed with joy and happiness would be an understatement. I was so blessed and beyond thankful to have been chosen. The money I received has helped me and taken such a burden financially off my life during some very hard times. The community came together to support me during the hardest of times and I will never forget that, and I am so thankful to every person who supported me and continues to support me on this difficult journey. Battling cancer is hard, but having a strong support system behind me makes all the difference. I am forever grateful for the Eatonville Wild Game Feed Team for their support and amazing charity. 

Todd McCather

 Todd McCather SR. is 56 years old and has 4 kids, with the 3 oldest graduating from Eatonville High school. He also worked at Starbucks for 14 years. He is best known in Eatonville for his five years as a board member of EYSA, helping out with the youth basketball, baseball and softball,  and always being the loudest parent at the football games. Unfortunately, Todd has been diagnosed with Multiple Myeloma which is a cancer of the plasma cells and is incurable. He will have to do chemotherapy for the rest of his life. Recently Todd had stem cell therapy which is helping, but he is continuing to fight and has a long road ahead. 

Todd's testimony after the 2022 Wild Game Feed:

 I would like to thank everyone involved in the wild game feed for everything that you guys have done for me, and others. The money that was raised helped me take care of some important things like bills LOL. I hope the next recipient appreciates everything that you guys do. Thank you very much!! 

Luke graduated from Eatonville High School in 2016. He joined the Army and left for boot camp in January of 2017. He got out of the service in May of 2020 after 3 1/2 years. He wanted to become a lineman and left for Line school in October of 2020. He had struggled with back paid for some time, and after he got to school ended up in so much paid one day he had to go to the hospital. He had to drop out and come back home and found out that he had a fractured S1 vertebrae and a torn labrum in his hip. He began doing physical therapy for that and seeing a spine specialist. 

January 4th he was hospitalized and after running tests they found a tumor on his spine, they did a biopsy and found it to be Langerhans Cell Histiocytosis, a very rare form of cancer. After doing a PET scan he met with the oncologist and was told that the cancer had spread, along with the large mass on his spine he had 2 on his lungs and 2 on his ribs. 

He is undergoing 5 days of Chemotherapy every 28 days for 12 months. During the 3 off chemo weeks he has blood work weekly, a pet scan, cat scan and MRI each month. He is also seeing the lung specialist each month and he has to meet with the oncologist each month. He does chemo for 1 week 5 days straight and they schedule all of his other appointments for the other weeks. He is receiving his treatment in Seattle, because the only Dr. that specializes in this cancer is in Seattle. 

Luke’s attitude has remained positive given all he is dealing with.

Luke's testimony after the 2021 Wild Game Feed:

"Hi I’m Luke Keefer I’m the 2021 eatonville game feed recipient. You as a community and from what I’ve heard even different states even came together for my family and I and raised well over $75,000! I am from eatonville I pretty much grew up there my whole life and to be honest with you never heard anything about the game feed til they asked me to be the recipient for it. Maybe it’s a good thing because from what I’ve heard that it is just continuously growing every year and I really hope that is the case so we can raise even more money for the future years to come. From my family and I we would like to just tell you all that we appreciate everything you guys put on and everyone who came out to show their support for us. It really shows how great of a community we have out here and how great people are willing to be for someone. This game feed helped my family in more ways than you can imagine and helped with the financial burden I was having with being out of work and constantly traveling to Seattle for treatment. Without you the community we wouldn’t be where we are today so we would all like to say thank you. Now for 2022, we have 2 amazing people from the community that have constantly been around. Please come out for this years game feed and raise even more money and come share some good times with some good people and continue to help this thing grow! Thank you for everything God bless."