Support the Fords on Saturday, April 14

Last year, the Colorado Rapids community pulled together to raise money and show our support for Laurie Ford, who is the mother of Rapids defender Kortne Ford. Laurie’s cancer numbers decreased last year, but we found out last month that those numbers have started to climb again and the doctors have given her a terminal diagnosis.

Laurie drives three hours round trip, five days a week for treatments that are not covered by insurance. There is a test that can determine the type of chemotherapy that would target her cancer cells. It’s also not covered by insurance and costs $10,000.

Over the past year, the soccer community has rallied and raised more than $40,000 to let the Fords know that we…