Benefits net $900 for Binks baby fund

Lacrosse

Pastime Tavern hosted a pool tournament Saturday to raise money for the Eric Binks medical fund. More than $900 was raised with more than 40 people participating.

Winners were Phillip Luft and Allen Thompson, first; Don Keeney and Dana Reserve, second; and Loren Fleming and Larry Brink, third. Binks, 15-month-old son of Lyle and Cheryl Thompson Binks of LaCrosse, is now undergoing cancer treatment at Providence Sacred Heart Hospital in Spokane.

An account for the boy has been set up at Umpqua Bank, and a fuel fund has been started at Four Star in Dusty to help family members commute t...