Saturday concert to benefit local family

A Saturday evening concert at the Greencastle Moose Lodge will benefit a local family in need.

"For the Love of Jude and Kellan" is set for 6 p.m.-midnight on Saturday, April 6 at the Greencastle Moose Lodge.

The concert will benefit the Andrea and Craig Trainer family, which welcomed twin boys into the world on Feb. 15. Kellan Reid Trainer spent more than a month in NICU before going home with his family, but his brother Jude Curtis Trainer passed away less than four hours after birth.

The show will feature performanced by 15th and Hulman, Catalyst, Kevin Drake, Carly Rhyne and Christine Smith.

Admission is $10. There will be a raffle drawing as well, with tickets available for $3 each.

Andrea and Craig Trainer, along with their oldest son Taven, found out they would be adding two members to their family in September 2012. However, one of the boys was soon diagnosed with anencephaly.

A neural tube defect that occurs early in pregnancy, anencephaly causes most babies to die during birth or shortly after.

Due to anencephaly being fatal most pregnancies are miscarried or aborted, if carried to term it causes polyhydramnios, pre-term labor, and other risk factors.

With another, potentially healthy, baby boy developing, this made Andrea's pregnancy especially high risk. The risk was present that Andrea's body could miscarry one baby, which would cause the other to be lost as well.

On Feb. 14, Andrea was hospitalized at 33 weeks to try and stop labor.

She gave birth to the boys the next day at the St. Vincent Women's Hospital high-risk unit.

Although the family lost little Jude, they celebrated bringing Kellan home on March 20, more than four weeks after he was born.

To learn more about the Trainer family's ordeal or to contribute, visit www.giveforward.com/rememberjude.