Sarnia Relay For Life 2012

Celebrating 11 years in Sarnia – Relay For Life 2012!  It was a beautiful night for the event, a time to remember, a time to celebrate, walking for the cure.  Congratulations Legacy Lappers – this year, raising over $25,000, there were so many amazing and creative teams out there – I just have to brag a little since this is the team my brother Paul is on, and my little girl got to be part of this year as well.

Raising Hope

This is a complete repost of an email I received today just to make you aware of the fundraiser for the Children’s Health Foundation.  The two cuties that appear as the face of the event are local children – touching so close to home.  If you would like to take part in this event.  Please feel free to follow the links below.

Meet Avery and Cooper

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Born with Stickler Syndrome, Avery and Cooper have learned to live with this genetic disorder. For Avery, the disorder caused cleft palate and Pierre Robin Sequence, making it difficult to breathe and swallow. For Cooper, his vision deteriorated and required surgery for a detached retina and cataract. Children's Hospital provides the care they need today, while Children's Health Research Institute works tirelessly to discover the causes and cures of childhood illnesses and diseases to help children for generations to come.

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Wikipedia

I remember as a kid my Father investing in his children by getting the set of World Book Encyclopaedia's.  They sat on the top shelf in the as we came in the door of the farm house. As kids it was a fun climb up onto the cupboard, in order to stand up and pick out the correct book marked with the letter of the alphabet on the spine. Our set was an off white with royal blue and gold decal on them….In time I’m sure sets like these will appear only in a museum – chances are they already do.

Today we have Wikipedia – information at our fingertips on everything and anything.  No longer do we have the door to door salesmen coming about selling large sets of books at a good financial investment.  There is some information I did not know until just this morning about Wikipedia though, and I thought I would share it with you – and perhaps, you could share with them as well.

Did You Know…

• Wikipedia is non-profit, but it's the #5 website in the world -- serving 470 million people every month with billions of page views.
• We work hard to keep our operation lean. Google might have close to a million servers. Yahoo has something like 13,000 staff. We have 679 servers and 95 staff.
• We will never run ads. Commerce is fine. Advertising is not evil. But it doesn't belong in Wikipedia.
• If everyone reading this made a small donation, we would only have to fundraise for a few hours. Not everyone can or will donate, but each year just enough people decide to give.
• We only raise what we need. When we've raised our budget, we stop fundraising for the year.

Please Consider Donating to Wikipedia – I know I’ve used the site numerous times, and I’m sure will be again -

This year, please consider making a donation of $5, $20, $50 or whatever you can to protect and sustain Wikipedia.

Click Here To Donate

Get Your New Facebook Profile Picture Taken At Funion Days!

 

Now Is The Time To Show Off Your Style!

Bring Your Friends, Your Pet, Your Vintage Car…

Be Creative! 

And Get A Cool New Facebook Profile Picture!!!

Saturday Morning During Funion Days In Thedford I will be taking Facebook Profile Pictures as together we take on the fight against MS!   All Pictures will be taken by donation,

Saturday 8am till 12 noon, 72 Allen Street in Thedford

Pictures will be edited and posted on the Captured Innocence Photography Facebook Page for you to tag yourself and add as your New Profile Picture!  Many of you know of the Fundraiser Kandis Hodgins has been forging as she prepares for her climb of Mount Everest in an attempt to raise money to fight MS.  Several events have taken place already, and more including a silent auction shortly will take place as well.

 Kandis had asked if Captured Innocence Photography would be able to take part in order to help raise funds, and after some thinking – I decided to have some fun with it that anyone can take part in!  So here’s the deal…Get your New Facebook Profile Picture taken and Support The Fight Against MS!  All Pictures will be taken by donation, from 8am till 12 noon, at the Smith Home on 72 Allen Street -  will only take a few moments, and will create a great memory!  Not on Facebook ?  No problem – come out and create a memory ! 

So come by- lets show our support as a community together!

…if necessary, use words.

Shortly after the Japanese Disaster I saw this clip on CNN.  Franklin Graham of Samaritan’s Purse International Relief Organization being interviewed as a plane of 90+ tons of relief was about to be sent to Japan…but who would deliver these supplies once they arrived ?  See below for “the rest of the story”… 

Samaritan’s Purse

Let me introduce you to a school in Japan, it’s called the MeySen Academy.

A School that specializes in early childhood development and English as a Foreign Language.

A School of ordinary people, making a Huge Difference by serving as a disaster relief team centre

– Because they chose to act.

As a result they have been working directly with the surrounding communities, identifying needs, and immediately buying and delivering exactly what those in need request.  In addition the team delivered over 50 tons of supplies donated through Samaritan’s Purse.

Please watch the following short video to see what the MeySen Academy team are doing along with other volunteers working continuously to help those in Japan – many who have lost absolutely everything. 

Meysen Academy-GPS Tagging - Samaritan’s Purse- www.michaelthemaven.com

Japan has a long road ahead as they recover, please consider  donating to the MeySen Academy as they continue to serve.

Donating by Check:
Please send your gift made out to "Kids Without Borders" with a note asking that the gift be designated to "MeySen Academy".
In turn, KWB will mail back a receipt.
To: KWB
P.O Box 24,
Bellevue, WA
98009-0024 USA

Matching Funds:
Son Michael Pham, Founder of Kids Without Borders has informed us that Microsoft, Google, and Boeing will match funds raised by their employees who give directly to MeySen.

For More Information please visit the Friends Of MeySen blog or Michael Andrew’s site: michaelthemaven.com

*images and video above by MeySen Academy and/or Michaelthemaven.com