POTSDAM -- To honor her late uncle, a 2010 Potsdam High graduate has entered an online contest to receive a $50,000 marketing donation to her favorite non-profit, and she is ranked number one as the contest moves to the next round.

Kanika Misra, now in Boston attending Emerson College, lost her uncle, Ramesh Misra, 60, of Ottawa, to pancreatic cancer, "and it devastated me and my family," she writes. "After months of grief, I've found genuine happiness in everything he was able to teach me in his life and everything he continues to teach me now that he is gone."

Her heart remains in the North Country, Misra writes, so she is asking people here to help her in the contest.

The charity she has chosen is the Pancreatic Cancer Action Network to benefit from the $50,000 marketing campaign to raise awareness and bring in more funding, if she is the winner.

"Luckily, from the help of hundreds of strangers, friends, and family, I was selected to move on to round 2 of the competition! Now, I have until the end of December to try and get as many votes as possible from as many different people," she writes.

Misra says it takes just a click, with no sign-ups. "I'd be more grateful than I could ever really express."

You can read more and vote at http://www.brickfish.com/GoToPage.aspx?qsi=58349335.