ANKENY, Iowa ( KCCI ) -- Two heroes from Central Iowa will be honored Saturday night for their bravery and the inspiration they're giving to others.

Albia fifth-grader Lennox Craig and Ankeny's Tricia Busch are two cancer survivors who have been named the pediatric and adult Honored Heroes at the annual Light the Night walk in Ankeny on Saturday.

The event is hosted by Blood Cancer United, formerly the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society.

Lennox was diagnosed with leukemia when she was just 5 years old, right in the thick of the pandemic.

"It was a whirlwind," her dad Cory Craig recalls, saying it "just happened all at once."

Cory tells KCCI that Lennox complained that her arm was asleep. Ten minutes later, he says she came and got them again, and that she became extremely lethargic and s

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