Miles Perret Cancer Services Launches its Change For Miles Campaign
Miles Perret Cancer Services (MPCS) will launch an innovative program using simple coin collection to help change the lives
of families fighting cancer in Acadiana. The campaign, Change for Miles, will be officially introduced by Mayor Joey Durel and local
bank executives at the Miles Perret Cancer Services Center, 2130 Kaliste Saloom Road on Wednesday, December 3 at 3:30pm.

The Change for Miles campaign encourages everyone to pick up special plastic containers, fill them with loose change,
and then return the filled bottles to locations of 8 area banks. “We may be inclined to pass up on a penny or nickel on the sidewalk;
but a full bottle of those same coins can supply a cancer patient with oral supplements for two weeks or pay a utility bill when the
family provider is on chemotherapy,” said Hunter Perret.

“Everyday pocket change will turn into funds to aid MPCS meet its mission of ‘helping families in Acadiana fighting and surviving cancer
with care and compassion’” “We believe this campaign will be a great resource with the support of businesses that are willing to pass
out bottles to their employees, schools that are willing to distribute them to their students, bank branches that are distributing and collecting
the filled containers, and the thousands of individuals that will gather their spare change to support this effort,” said Perret.

Area branches of Capital One Bank, Farmers Merchants Bank and Trust, First National Bank, Gulf Coast Bank,
Home Bank, Rayne State Bank, Regions Bank, and the River Ranch branch of MidSouth Bank will all serve as collection points
for “Change For Miles” containers. Empty campaign collection bottles are also available for distribution at all of the bank locations and
at the MPCS center. Area businesses, banks, schools, churches, civic organizations and other groups are invited to call
Miles Perret Cancer Services at 337.984.1920 or visit www.changeformiles.org to join the Change for Miles team.

Corporate sponsors of Change For Miles are Acadiana Plastics Manufacturing, Blue
Stream Services, Dr. John Hendry Pediatrics Dentistry, Mello Joy Coffee, and Popeye’s.
Miles Perret Cancer Services provides free emotional, physical and financial support for
cancer patients and their families within a 12-parish service area of Louisiana. Since
2002, MPCS has served more than 5,000 families here in Acadiana.