SCC student from Russell County to donate a kidney over spring break

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A Somerset Community College student and Russell County native will be taking time during the upcoming spring break to donate a kidney to a stranger.

Cherish Strunk, age 25, is a Russell County native and is pursuing a degree at Somerset Community College to become a surgical technologist.

Strunk is donating a kidney to a man named Danny Fitch, who lives in Johnson County. Strunk had never met the man before the process began last month, but they had a mutual friend.

According to Somerset Community College, Strunk is on track to graduate in May.