Sept 11 10
As many of you know, Andrew played soccer for many years - instructional and travel teams - at Concord Soccer Association (CSA) in Delaware. Concord opened their new 4 field complex on Naaman’s Road today and I’m pleased to include a very special picture from the complex. Chris, Ali, and I decided to honor Andrew by personally sponsoring one of the fields. It was very bittersweet as I helped hang the “Andrew’s Field” banner on the goal nets. I hope thousands of kids have fun playing on those fields and I hope they always remember to HAVE FUN and “Live Like Andrew”. You’ve got your name on a field now, Pal!
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I would like to take a minute to acknowledge all the hard work that Ali does as our “Director of Social Networking”. As you can probably guess, I’m not that good about staying on top of Twitter and our Facebook site. That’s Ali’s job and she does it so well. In our quest to increase awareness of childhood cancer, Ali regularly tweets to hundreds of people, many of them famous. Ali’s tweets are being followed by major league baseball players, ‘reality stars’ such as Dina Manzo from “Real Housewives of New Jersey”, actors, singers…the list goes on and on. If you want to follow Ali’s in the social networking world, please visit:
http://www.facebook.com/#!/TheAndrewMcDonoughBePositiveFoundation?ref=ts
Twitter: BePositiveFdn http://twitter.com/#search?q=bepositivefdn
Great job, Ali!
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Please join us for some cool, upcoming events.
Oasis Family Fun Center - B+ Hero, Joey Borowski, and his family are hosting a fundraiser for The B+ Foundation at the Oasis Family Fun Center in Glen Mills, PA on Mon. Sept 13th. There are all kinds of fun stuff like laser tag, rock climbing, and MUCH, MUCH more! Hope to see you there. We greatly appreciate the support of the Borowski/Callahan family.
“Jack’s 5k” — As I mentioned previously, the inaugural “Jack’s 5k” will be held on Sept 12th at Rockford Park in Wilmington. “Jack” is Jack Langseder, a brave, local boy who went to Heaven last October. Chris, Ali, and I are one of the sponsors of this event to support the Langseders and we also have an “Andrew’s Angels” team for you to join. Please register for our team on the attached link.
https://www.elleevance.com/Jacks5K2010/EventLandingPage.aspx
Remember to sign up to join us for our “4th Annual B+ Foundation Dinner & Auction” on Sept 27th at the DuPont Country Club. The menu is impressive and we’re going to have great auction items. Dress code is casual. Can’t beat that. Come join us and observe Childhood Cancer Awareness with our VIP guest speaker, B+ Hero Pearce Quesenberry!
https://www.signup82north.com/beventLive.aspx?EventID=NBI20371240
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I would like to introduce you to a new B+ Hero, Mary Kate Lee. Mary Kate is a 9 year old MA girl who was very recently diagnosed with cancer. Please take 2 minutes and click on her link and leave her a message of support from the B+ Nation. I want her to know how many people are thinking of and praying for her. Thanks for being there for our kids.
http://www.caringbridge.org/visit/marykatelee/mystory
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MAKE it a great weekend.
Live Like Andrew!
B+
Ali’s & Andrew’s Dad
www.BePositive.org