Hey Fellow travelers !!!!

Its your friendly neighborhood and always sentimental Kindergarten teacher from Lawrenceville,  hoping with all hope, this finds you and your families and loved ones doing well despite the many  challenging circumstances  going on in our world at the moment.  

I'm checking in and  submitting my annual appeal to the very generous masses of friends and family members who have helped me  to date,  personally raise almost $300,000 in the 16 straight years I've been part of St. Baldricks. 

My fundraising goal is $5,000 this year and I made it last year and it seems like a doable goal for me. I've also set up my team again this year, Lester's LifeShavers with a collective goal of $25,000. Hoping to recruit a few students and or parents who want to do something extraordinary !!!

All in an effort  to help me generate some support for the tremendous research that continues, in a collective effort to eradicate pediatric cancer from our lives. And all I have to do is promise to shave my head, which, BTW, will be happening for the 16th time on March the 9th in Lawrenceville.  I'm in. !!!!!!

I hope if you read this short but sincere plea, and  to all who's eyes its words fall under,  you'll  be moved enough to contribute again, maybe for the 1st time, maybe for the 16th time!!!  It's all good, give  a little or a lot. The amount doesn't matter.

What does matter is the  opportunity you are afforded to really make a difference in the lives of children throughout our country with breakthrough and groundbreaking therapies that have in many instances, been game changers in the field of pediatric cancer research. 

If you're a parent of a child with cancer, or even the friend of a parent whose child is or went  through this, or in some cases, a child whose life was cut short by cancer, you surly know what I'm talking about. 

I recently lost a former student (age 27) to a very rare form of cancer...She had a strain that was 1 in 20,000,000....but even though Katie knew the odds weren't in her favor, she  fought so bravely for almost a year and she dedicated her various and sometimes difficult treatments to those folks who would come after her.

I'll ALWAYS remember her earthly time with deep fondness and love as she was such a gift to this world. 

Again, if you can, please do, and if you can't, I get it, times are tough but do me one thing...say a quiet  prayer for Katie and her family.

I'd really appreciate it...but if you can, even $5.00....it will help !!!   

Click the link below.

https://www.stbaldricks.org/participants/16yearsstbalding2024

Thank you to everyone out there!!!  Let's do this!!!

Peace and Love be with us all,

Jeffrey