Tributes paid to Openshaw Teen who had just won 2010 Courage Award 
We recently hosted the wake for - and paid tribute to - Cody O'Grady, who died of cacner on 8th September 2010, just weeks after winning the presitious Urban Hero Courage Ward. Cody, who lived on the border of Openshaw, had been fighting aggressive cancer for nearly a year when he was awarded with the Courage Award at the 2010 Urban Hero Awards, presented by Manchester youth charity, The Message Trust. Cody O’Grady, 17, was nominated by his youth leader who has watched how he and his family have bravely coped through diagnosis, treatment and its side effects. | Sam Ward from Eden Openshaw, part of The Message Trust – a youth charity working with the hardest-to-reach young people in Manchester’s prisons, schools and communities – explains: ‘Ten months ago, Cody came along to our football training session on a Wednesday night. He seemed to have a really sore eye but he said he’d been prescribed some antibiotics and so we thought nothing more of it. ‘But a couple of weeks later Cody turned up at a club and his face was a whole lot worse. What he first thought was a sinus infection actually turned out to be aggressive cancer. He was referred to Christies Hospital for treatment. [click here for the rest of Cody's story] 
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