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Saturday, September 15, 2012
Tuesday, September 11, 2012
Ashley recaps the Stand Up 2 Cancer event
After a long flight from Boston to L.A. early Friday morning, the day went by fast as the Stand Up 2 Cancer show was going to begin in just a few hours. After getting ready and heading to the Shrine Auditorium, I picked up my tickets and soon met up with PecanPie! It was great getting to talk to her again. Soon after, Mary Lou (Pastel) and Marge arrived! It was awesome getting to meet them!!
Eventually we took our seats and the show began. A lot of the stories shown were really sad but it made for an interesting feeling throughout the entire room as everyone watched these stories of people all going through the same thing, the thing that we were all here to stand up to and CRUSH. But it was really cool to see Justin Timberlake, Sofia Vergara and Robert Pattinson, to name a few, plus see Taylor Swift, Alicia Keys and Tim McGraw perform! It was also cool to see how a live show is done, and how quickly people have to move to keep it going.
Soon after, it ended and we met up with Mary Lou and Marge. We were all invited to a reception that Pecan would be speaking at afterward, so Mary Lou and Marge offered to bring us with them in their car so we would all be together. There was quite some confusion finding their hotel, but I didn’t mind because I got to see a lot more of L.A. that I originally wouldn’t have! lol
Finally we did make it to their hotel and hung out with them for a bit before taking a cab to the place where the reception was being held. It was a party with fancy food and swanky people, but I just liked getting to hang out with Pecan, Mary Lou and Marge. Then Dave Filice came! It was awesome getting to officially meet him and talk with him!
Then Pecan made her speech, and she did great. She talked about David and Crush Kids’ Cancer, then said little blurbs about each of us who were there and why we’re so dedicated to the team. I really liked how David and Crush Kids’ Cancer were still being celebrated that night, even though David isn‘t here.
The rest of the night seemed to fly by and eventually we took off back to our hotel. It was a great first time in L.A. and a really special event to have gone to. It was awesome getting to see Pecan again, and also meeting Mary Lou, Marge and Dave!! They’re all some of the nicest people I’ve ever met and it was so much fun getting to hang out with them all.
Eventually we took our seats and the show began. A lot of the stories shown were really sad but it made for an interesting feeling throughout the entire room as everyone watched these stories of people all going through the same thing, the thing that we were all here to stand up to and CRUSH. But it was really cool to see Justin Timberlake, Sofia Vergara and Robert Pattinson, to name a few, plus see Taylor Swift, Alicia Keys and Tim McGraw perform! It was also cool to see how a live show is done, and how quickly people have to move to keep it going.
Soon after, it ended and we met up with Mary Lou and Marge. We were all invited to a reception that Pecan would be speaking at afterward, so Mary Lou and Marge offered to bring us with them in their car so we would all be together. There was quite some confusion finding their hotel, but I didn’t mind because I got to see a lot more of L.A. that I originally wouldn’t have! lol
Then Pecan made her speech, and she did great. She talked about David and Crush Kids’ Cancer, then said little blurbs about each of us who were there and why we’re so dedicated to the team. I really liked how David and Crush Kids’ Cancer were still being celebrated that night, even though David isn‘t here.
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| Dave Filice, Marge, Mary Lou and myself |
The rest of the night seemed to fly by and eventually we took off back to our hotel. It was a great first time in L.A. and a really special event to have gone to. It was awesome getting to see Pecan again, and also meeting Mary Lou, Marge and Dave!! They’re all some of the nicest people I’ve ever met and it was so much fun getting to hang out with them all.
Monday, September 3, 2012
CRUSH KIDS' CANCER during Childhood Cancer Awareness Month
September is Childhood Cancer Awareness Month. Watch below as everyone CRUSHES KIDS' CANCER in this fabulous video made by the awesome Allie!
To support Childhood Cancer Awareness Month, The Kids' Chapter will be selling Crush Kids' Cancer t-shirts all September long! A portion of the proceeds will be donated to Crush Kids' Cancer. Let's see how much we can raise during the whole month of September!
Go HERE to purchase your Crush Kids' Cancer t-shirt now!
Friday, August 31, 2012
The winner of our Kids' Chapter fundraising challenge is....
There were some great fundraising activities going on this summer, but Roselyn wins with her sketch of David Archuleta, that was auctioned off for a donation to Crush Kids' Cancer.
Congrats Roselyn, you win the free copy of David's new album BEGIN.
Thank you everyone who participated and be sure to stay tuned for more great projects from The Kids' Chapter!
Thursday, August 30, 2012
THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU
What a week for Crush Kids' Cancer!
Trending worldwide on Twitter and coming in 3rd on Stand Up To Cancer with
over $20K donated!
Crush Kids' Cancer has raised almost $90,000 since 2008, the most of any SU2C team!
THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU
to all of the Archie fans and everyone who donated!
Also a BIG THANK YOU to everyone who gave raffle items; Team Archuleta, Steven J. Robinson, Jeff LeBlanc, The Civil Wars, Preston Powis, MonteMar
and some awesome Archie fans!
And last but not least, THANK YOU to team captain PecanPie and the entire
Crush Kids' Cancer team!!
Reminder: ALL raffles have ended! Winners will be announced soon!
Wednesday, August 29, 2012
Breaking News!
Every $25 contribution to Crush Kids' Cancer will be eligible to win a special package: Two (2) Special Meet and Greet Passes and two (2) tickets for the performance concert of your choice upon David Archuleta's return! No accommodation or airfare is included in this gift package. This gift applies to international performances as well.
So, if you donate $25 tonight, you get one chance at the gift. If you donate $250 , you get 10 chances. This gift applies to donations to Crush Kids' Cancer made from 7 pm to end of team competition only. Although previous donations are not included in this particular gift opportunity, all donors are eligible for David Archuleta gifts outlined previously. The winner will announced the week of Sept. 3rd.
IF YOU ARE AN INTERNATIONAL FAN AND ARE UNABLE TO DONATE BY CREDIT CARD, you can donate as follows:
Send your donation to the following Paypal email: mlsinclair@sympatico.ca with the following Subject Line: Donation for Crush Kids Cancer. We will deposit it directly to the SU2C team. Please do so before 11:30 pm EST Wednesday, August 29th to allow time for us to process.
So what are you waiting for? Team Archuleta has given us even more encouragement to rise to the challenge! Donation sites have been known to get clogged in the final hours so donate NOW. And donate here!
Tuesday, August 28, 2012
A Heartfelt Message from Team Captain PecanPie
Hi Crush Kids’ Cancer team,
I wanted to take a pause to be a little serious and let you know how much each and every one of you is recognized and what this team truly means. Many of you have sent messages to let me and/or David know how a diagnosis of cancer is so very personal to you. I want the members of the team to know that your voice is heard, your feelings are known, and that each and every team member counts in this fight. I do know what it’s like to be given a cancer diagnosis only to learn that there are some in whom you previously might have entrusted your life and yet who are surprisingly indifferent to your potential mortality. I do know what it’s like to be a child and watch a loved one go through the horror of a cancer diagnosis and treatment. I haven’t seen patients directly in over five years, but never will I forget the look in a parent’s eyes when I would lay my stethoscope on the silent chest of his/her child who had just passed, and confirm their worst nightmare. The most hideous sound on Earth is the sound of a mother wailing in anguish upon receiving the news that her child has just passed away or that there are no treatment options left. I don’t know how else to describe it except to say, it eviscerates your soul.
Why am I sharing this with all of you some 4 years after starting the team? Because most of you have experienced any number of the cancer stories I’ve described above and it’s part of what unites us all both as a team and as fellow human beings. We get so caught up in the excitement of winning the challenge that sometimes the ugly stories behind the fight get forgotten. That’s so easy to let happen right now while David isn’t here to cheer us on.
Way more important than my understanding, however, is that David understands what it is that you have all endured (or are still battling currently). I realized this early on in the first fundraising challenge 4 years ago. No one in the fanbase knew who I was back then; most of you thought I was just some Archie-smitten teen rather than a middle-aged pediatric oncologist. So, how then, do we explain, a group of 550 strangers banding together within a 2 -week time frame and raising over $30,000 (about half of which was raised in the final 12 hours)?
David, of course, is the only possible explanation - the only common thread. What always amazed me was that while I and other adults may understand and relate to the impact of a cancer diagnosis because we have had the benefit of maturity and of direct personal experience, David understood even as a mere teenager, without ever having endured most of these experiences personally. Moreover, we all somehow knew, that David would “get it”, i.e., that he would have a level of compassion and understanding that sometimes even our closest friends might not be able to muster. We, on this team and in this fanbase, all saw something that the other viewers had missed entirely. We saw that beneath that goofy, dorky teen exterior and that ever-present smile, beat the heart of a human being with a compassion so profound, that it radiated right through the television screen and permeated deep into our own hearts. We didn’t even have to share our own individual cancer battle stories with him to feel that we were heard and understood. What’s more, we all knew, that the only way to thank him was not to give to him directly, but rather to uphold a principle that I suspect is dear to David, and that is common to all our faiths and to all humanity. Simply put, that principle is that if we witness or become aware of the potential for suffering in another, it is our obligation to do whatever we can to alleviate that suffering. This SU2C team became the first of many opportunities to fulfill that shared obligation.
So, for those of you who have been hit hard by the economy, please don’t donate financially to this team and instead consider donating blood, registering for the bone marrow registry, or just remember to do your regular cancer screening. If, however, you think you can comfortably afford to donate even a little to the team and you support the strategy of SU2C as much as I do, then I hope you will do what you can to bring us one step closer to finding successful, tolerable treatments and preventing the suffering that cancer forces so many to endure. The more we raise, the greater the reminder to the world that David is not just a great singer, but a great man to have inspired such a team. Given that we raised over $30,000 with a team half the size and raised about $15,000 in the final 12 hours, I know we can still pull this off.
Thanks again for all of the support,
Pecan Pie
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