Seventeen-year-old Dakota Cook of Port Haywood, is a grateful childhood survivor of one of the most aggressive forms of cancer, and he wants to show his gratitude by raising money for Ronald McDonald House. To do that, he has created a Christmas tree out of pennies from his coin collection, and he’s raffling it off. Tickets are available at his parents’ store, the Island Stop Market at Port Haywood. Dakota set the price at $5 a ticket in hopes he can raise $1,000 by Jan. 31, the last day of the raffle. Ronald McDonald House enabled Dakota’s dad, Tom Cook, then a South Hill resident, to stay close by the hospital during Dakota’s lengthy battle with T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (T-ALL) and his subsequent rehab. “Without Ronald McDonald, it would have been impossible to stay in Richmond,” said Tom. “It was a communal atmosphere, and we met a lot of people going through similar circumstances.” Dakota was born with club feet and had multiple surgeries during the first years of his li...