Local singer Robin Rogers is currently in the Intensive Care Unit battling illness due to Hepatitis-C. The Gaston Gazette has written a large story about her in today's paper.

You can help out by buying Robin's latest CD, Back in the Fire, via her Web site.

Other ways to help include:

A nonprofit yard sale will be held from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Saturday at The Bluffs at Northwoods apartment complex in Gastonia.

Several bands will hold a benefit concert for Rogers on Oct. 17 at the Double Door Inn.

Fans who wish to donate to the Robin Rogers Medical Trust Fund can do so by making a deposit at any Bank of America, using the account number 0006-5617-0126. Checks may also be mailed to Rachel Pickard, Attorney at Law Trustee, at P.O. Box 547, Gastonia, NC 28053.