Brookfield Students Rally to Help Classmate Battle Cancer

Hearing that one of their own was beginning a difficult battle, the Brookfield High School (BHS) Peer Counselors organized an ice cream social fundraiser Tuesday night for freshman Brandon Zenevitch, who was diagnosed with a rare form of cancer at the start of April.

Zenevitch and his mother, Denise, were extremely grateful to the Peer Counselors and everyone who came out to support them Tuesday and throughout this ordeal.

“We as a family are incredibly moved by the love that’s been shown,” Denise said, noting that even other communities have extended help, including Ferris Acres Creamery in Newtown, who donated the ice cream for the event.

With a year of chemotherapy and radiation treatments ahead, Brandon is keeping his spirits up.

“Better to stay positive than being depressed all the time,” he said.

As for those in the community that have reached out, “I just want to say, ‘Thank you,’” he said, particularly to BHS students Alex Belden and Jordann Wrubel (who is also Brandon’s cousin) “for putting together a Relay for Life team for me, which is the best thing I could have asked for.”

Those who were not able to make the ice cream social Tuesday but would like to help the Zenevitch family can contact Angela Haselwood in the high school nurse’s office.