Brooke Dewyea is seen in her Facebook profile photo.

TUPPER LAKE — A chicken barbecue dinner to raise funds for a woman who was hit by a camper in late June will be held on July 30 at 3 p.m.

It’s is a common example of people from all across the Tupper Lake region, generous with their time and money, banding together to support someone in a time of need.

Brooke Dewyea, 20, of Piercefield was jogging on Dewey Avenue on June 24 when she had a collision with a pop-up camper, which left her unconscious with a fractured skull.

Airlifted to the University of Vermont Medical Center in Burlington by North Country Life Flight, she stayed at the hospital for several weeks before being discharged around two weeks ago.

Dewyea’s mother and father spent weeks at the hospital in Vermont while she made her initial recovery, the initial reason for the fundraising dinner. The money raised from chicken dinners will help the family pay for physical and speech therapy while she was out of work.

She was scheduled to be in Africa, working for the Army during the summer. An active runner enrolled in the Army ROTC program, Dewyea wants to get back into her athletic lifestyle as she will need to retake her physical for ROTC. As she prepares to enter her third year of college at the University of San Diego, Dewyea is working to recover quickly so she is ready to return to classes in the fall.

Dewyea is recovering from a skull fracture which has put her off balance and does not allow her to run. She has recovered from head injuries before, passing her physical for ROTC after suffering a concussion while playing soccer earlier in college. While she is in physical therapy — working on walking currently — she keeps her eyes on being able to run again in a few months.

The dinner, organized by a group of friends and family, will be held at the Tupper Lake Moose Lodge. Ten dollar chicken dinners cooked by Mike Trombley have been praised highly at previous benefit dinners and will be served with corn on the cob and salt potatoes.

Drivers are volunteering to deliver meals, which can be ordered by phone by calling 518-359-5051. Diners eating at the event can enjoy the acoustic guitar music of Chris Mitchell, who is also volunteering his time for the dinner.

Donations have poured in from members of the community who buy items to supply the dinner’s Chinese auction and 50/50 raffle with prizes.

The entire event is organized thanks to volunteers who donate their time to set up benefit dinners on a regular basis, raising money for people in a variety of difficult times.

“That’s how it is around here; it’s a small town,” organizer Lisa Reed said. “It’s a very giving community, and people are very generous.”

Organizers donate their time, suppliers donate money and prizes, and the Moose Club is donating its facilities to use for free. Diners, who supply the majority of the monetary support, have a simple job at the dinner.

“Have a good meal,” Reed said. “We like to get people there to get together,”

Dewyea may even show up to the dinner to greet people and update them on her status, depending on how she feels. She has already seen the amount of support friends, family and strangers in the community have shown her as she was surprised by the number of tickets her grandmother sold for the dinner at the beach. When Sunday comes around, the community will again show their generosity while filling their stomachs with chicken.