Our View: Hope Lodge has helped many cancer patients here since 2010 - LubbockOnline.com

The American Cancer Society’s Hope Lodge is celebrating its third birthday in Lubbock this month. It has been a great success story for Lubbock and the surrounding region.

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Seim said Lubbock’s Hope Lodge was the vision of Dr. Harry Weitlauf, who was the chairman of the cell biology and biochemistry department at the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center for more than 30 years.

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