Blades of Steel
9 Team Full Keeper - Pts Only (G,A,W,SO)
Crosby, Wheeler, Bergeron, Forsberg, Connor, Kopitar, E.Lindholm, Pastrnak, DeBrincat, Fiala
Jones, Klingberg, Hamilton, Theodore, Letang
Saros, Shesterkin
Garland, Vrana, Bjorkstrand, Verhaege, Backstrom, Karlsson, Perunovich, Spurgeon, Pulock, Hellebuyck
Last edited by Shoeless; June 24, 2013 at 4:06 AM.
$931.39 is the cash you guys have entrusted me with to date. It will be safely in the ANZ Bank in Siem Reap, Cambodia by noon on July 25th.
Just got a note from the Associate Director of the Diabetes Clinic - here is what she said: 'I will start our list of patients to be covered by these donations - this is one of the best parts of working here ' Lorraine is a long term volunteer out of Australia - her husband who passed away in 2008 was the head of the World Health Organization Diabetes Program and so Lorraine traveled the world working with him in many developing countries for many years. Our funds are in good hands.
Maybe it's time to share a little about my involvement here - the diabetes thrust is fairly new for me in my work in Cambodia - it kind of happened serendipitously as a result of something else I was working on, but became a natural fit for three reasons. I. my kid brother is a severe type 1 diabetic 2. when I was in university I was the program director of a summer camp for juvenile diabetics (so type 1) over 3 years 3. my background in organizational development and business consulting is something they can use - they are experts in diabetes but ...... the project is so under resourced but they are working magic with what they have. My plan is to move to Siem Reap from Korea in February next year and give them a little more of my time and energy. I have started other activities there over the past 4 years that are likely more of a priority actually: a free school with 200 kids in a very poor rural area (almost in the shadow of Angkor Wat if you can believe it), a microfinance institution with three separate program thrusts and: I am taking the lead in developing a seed library network for the agricultural sector - food security is a big issue there. Anyway, this stuff is easy to do when you have partners like you guys on the Dobberhockey Forums who step up quickly and with some real energy - your financial contribution is important, but your moral support that comes with your contribution is huge too - something perhaps you don't think about when you push the paypal button. The Khmer people receive both of these gifts as if they come from the gods or from people who are like a god.
Now don't be going down the road of 'oh wow, shoeless is such a great guy' - trust me, it is all completely selfish - I am having the time of my life - it's not even about personal fulfillment really, it's just flat out FUN.
Let the Praba Campaign continue! (I'll get that bugger for starting this and leaving me with all the work )
Aw-koon ch'ran
Last edited by Shoeless; June 24, 2013 at 9:31 AM.
Blades of Steel
9 Team Full Keeper - Pts Only (G,A,W,SO)
Crosby, Wheeler, Bergeron, Forsberg, Connor, Kopitar, E.Lindholm, Pastrnak, DeBrincat, Fiala
Jones, Klingberg, Hamilton, Theodore, Letang
Saros, Shesterkin
Garland, Vrana, Bjorkstrand, Verhaege, Backstrom, Karlsson, Perunovich, Spurgeon, Pulock, Hellebuyck
$968.49 (USD) - who's going to pop the top off the grand mark, huh?
$1061.20 USD - nice uh!
cant believe this thread generated over $1000, good job everyone.
8-GM / WK-H2H
Forwards: G=2, A=1, PP/SH= +1, GWG= +2, Shootout G=1, HT= +1
D-Men/Captain: G=3/A=2
Goalies: W=3, OTL=1, SO= +2, SV= .10
Start = 13F, 6D, 2G / Keep 44 (3G)
Captain: Matthews
(F): MacKinnon, Pasta, Marner, Rantanen, Malkin, Barkov, M.Tkachuk, W.Nylander, Pettersson, Gaudreau, Laine, Keller, Miller, B.Tkachuk, Stutzle, DeBrincat, L.Raymond, K.Johnson, Cozens, Quinn, Guenther, Kulich, Cooley
(D): Makar, Dahlin, Q.Hughes, Ekblad, Rielly, Werenski, Letang, Jones, Chychrun, Seider, Edvinsson, Jiricek, Korchinski, Mintyukov, Ceulemans, Hutson
(G): Shesterkin, Demko, Vejmelka
Wow... Just wow!!!
Nice work guys!
Blades of Steel
9 Team Full Keeper - Pts Only (G,A,W,SO)
Crosby, Wheeler, Bergeron, Forsberg, Connor, Kopitar, E.Lindholm, Pastrnak, DeBrincat, Fiala
Jones, Klingberg, Hamilton, Theodore, Letang
Saros, Shesterkin
Garland, Vrana, Bjorkstrand, Verhaege, Backstrom, Karlsson, Perunovich, Spurgeon, Pulock, Hellebuyck
Yeah terrific response to a spontaneous fund raiser. Especially at a time of year when the board's slow down. Certainly speaks to the kind of folks we associate with.
We'll keep it going for a few weeks, I'm hoping to see a bunch more of those $10 bricks for the wall. Makes such a difference to the program we are helping.
hey Rick, been super busy lately and barely on the forums here so I missed this thread, this is awesome that you got such great response! I knew we had a good group of guys here but this is impressive, you should make this a yearly thing.
I'd love to chip in for the cause but as you may recall I don't have a PayPal account because I don't agree with their business practices so I don't support them. BUT, a good cause like this trumps all that so if you can send me a request for payment then I should be able to pay it via credit card without a PP account and circumvent all that
I think you have my email but if not just PM me!
I just got done on PayPal. It's not much, but I hope it helps!
GO WINGS!