\n\t\t\t\t\t\tAn Iowa girl will have her wish to visit The Wizarding World of Harry Potter in Orlando, Florida, granted thanks to the generosity of a heating and plumbing company and Make-A-Wish Iowa.Penelope Pearson, 11, of North Liberty, and her family plan to visit Universal Studios next month, KCRG reports. People gathered at A2Z Heating and Plumbing in town recently to celebrate news of the trip and Penelope being six months post-treatment for B-Cell Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia.\u201cThis is gonna be super exciting, “Penelope said. “I\u2019m going on my trip in two weeks. … It\u2019s gonna be super awesome. I can\u2019t wait… I\u2019ve been waiting for so long to do it and I never knew when it was gonna happen.”Penelope was diagnosed with the blood cancer in 2022. A2Z Heating and Plumbing will cover cost of the trip after running a special promotion that raised around $15,000, according to owner Scott Jones.\u201cWe donated $100 for every water heater we sold over the last year, which enabled us this year to have enough funds to fund (the) entire wish all by ourselves,\u201d said Jones.Penelope\u2019s mom, Liz, said she is glad to be finally looking ahead after Penelope\u2019s long battle with leukemia.”She finally crossed that finish line and finished chemo in March of this year,” she said. “… There were so many days where we were just living day-to-day, but now we\u2019re looking forward to the future again, and it means so much to have this kind of support.\u201d\u00bb Subscribe to KCCI’s YouTube page\u00bb Download the free KCCI app to get updates on the go: Apple | Google Play\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
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An Iowa girl will have her wish to visit The Wizarding World of Harry Potter in Orlando, Florida, granted thanks to the generosity of a heating and plumbing company and Make-A-Wish Iowa.<\/p>\n
Penelope Pearson, 11, of North Liberty, and her family plan to visit Universal Studios next month, KCRG reports<\/a>. People gathered at A2Z Heating and Plumbing in town recently to celebrate news of the trip and Penelope being six months post-treatment for B-Cell Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia.<\/p>\n \u201cThis is gonna be super exciting, “Penelope said. “I\u2019m going on my trip in two weeks. … It\u2019s gonna be super awesome. I can\u2019t wait… I\u2019ve been waiting for so long to do it and I never knew when it was gonna happen.”<\/p>\n Penelope was diagnosed with the blood cancer in 2022. <\/p>\n A2Z Heating and Plumbing will cover cost of the trip after running a special promotion that raised around $15,000, according to owner Scott Jones.<\/p>\n \u201cWe donated $100 for every water heater we sold over the last year, which enabled us this year to have enough funds to fund (the) entire wish all by ourselves,\u201d said Jones.<\/p>\n Penelope\u2019s mom, Liz, said she is glad to be finally looking ahead after Penelope\u2019s long battle with leukemia.<\/p>\n “She finally crossed that finish line and finished chemo in March of this year,” she said. “… There were so many days where we were just living day-to-day, but now we\u2019re looking forward to the future again, and it means so much to have this kind of support.\u201d<\/p>\n \u00bb Subscribe to KCCI’s YouTube page<\/a><\/p>\n \u00bb Download the free KCCI app to get updates on the go: Apple<\/a> | Google Play<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An Iowa girl will have her wish to visit The Wizarding World of Harry Potter in Orlando, Florida,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24370,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7936,18579,28,30,29,7737,18577,1573,18576,14412,18572,18578,18573,18575,18580,17491,3437,18574],"class_list":["post-24369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-apple","tag-finished-chemo","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-girl","tag-harry-potter","tag-heating","tag-iowa-company","tag-last-year","tag-make-a-wish","tag-make-a-wish-iowa","tag-penelope-pearson","tag-plumbing-company","tag-thank","tag-trip","tag-universal-studios","tag-wish"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24369\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}