ALLEN PARK, Mich. – An Allen Park bakery owner who survived a stage 3 metastatic melanoma diagnosis has turned her recovery into a mission — and her shop into a source of hope for others facing the same fight.
Raleigh Minning, owner of Made with Love Donuts, endured 30 rounds of radiation, 18 rounds of chemotherapy and a full lymph node dissection before there was no sign of the disease. Rather than stepping away from the experience, she channeled it into building something bigger.
“The first thing I prayed was God if this is your will then I am ready but if not use me and I feel like he’s done that with this business,” Minning said.
From diagnosis to donation
All proceeds from Made with Love Donuts go directly to local cancer patients and cancer research. The shop has donated more than $100,000 — without soliciting a single outside donation…