Charity combines fishing with helping kids in need

George Bowers started a charity that uses fishing to help children facing serious medical issues. Fishing for a Cause is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year, and Bowers hopes to continue to help more kids. (Tom Venesky / Contributing Photographer)HANOVER TWP. — When George Bowers started Fishing for a Cause in 2000, the purpose was simple.

An avid angler, Bowers wanted to use his love of fishing to brighten the day for children battling serious illnesses. He did so by making annual trips to the Janet Weis Children’s Hospital in Danville and the Geisinger Wyoming Valley Medical Center in Wilkes-Barre, delivering gifts of fishing rods and reels to children who had to spend Christmas in the hospital.