After losing her father to cancer last year, Ria Patino is turning grief into generosity. The owner of This n’ That Creative Studio is renaming her paint splatter room in honor of her dad, Rick Perez, and hosting a color run to raise money for summer camp scholarships.
On March 5, 2024, Perez went to the hospital after work, unaware he was about to receive devastating news.
“That week he was diagnosed with pancreatic and liver cancer. It was stage four. Nobody expected it, and it happened so fast,” Patino said…