For the 17th year, Dairy Queens across the province held there Miracle Treat Day yesterday, and Swift Current's location took part.

The day saw Dairy Queens across the province will donate 100% of net proceeds from each Blizzard Treat sold to Jim Pattison Children’s Hospital Foundation.

In Saskatchewan alone last year, $241,505 was raised across 43 locations. Some of the money raised in the previous year and this year will be helping a local Swift Current family.

Kelley Dougherty is the mother of Beckett Dougherty who was diagnosed with Infant Leukemia at only two months old and is one of the many kids that have and will be helped through Blizzard treat sales.

"Beckett came home from the hospital as a healthy little boy," she said. "At two and a half-month-old, we took to the pediatrician office in Swift Current, and the pediatrician informed us that he has leukemia and that we needed to get him to Saskatoon right away. We just went home and dumped everything, drawer and suitcases, and hoped in the car and drove to Saskatoon where they confirmed that Beckett did have leukemia."

We were transferred to sick kids to Toronto where he spent the majority of nine months in the hospital and then when he entered the maintenance phase of chemotherapy which is what he is on now," she said. "He is still receiving daily chemo, we were able to come back, and he's now treated in Saskatoon at the cancer centre."

Britt Dougherty said that the money raised from fundraisers like Miracle Treat Day allows families to give medical care to there kids, that they wouldn't normally have.

"Next month we have to fly to Toronto once a year, and they will help us with flights. It just opens up better medical care for children in different areas is how it helped us," he said. "For me, it's nice to be in the position where we can have him out of the hospital and helping raise awareness for situations and other families in a situation similar to ours. It's nice that we are kind of maybe help a little bit that way."

Both parents added that Beckett has about a month left of chemotherapy.

Dairy Queens Miracle Treat Day has raised over $135 million in support of sick and injured children across North America.