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Benefit for Danielle Blower

Danielle Blower was the pedestrian struck by a truck in Hamilton. She is at UC and is scheduled to undergo multiple surgeries. Her family has set up a Benefit account for Danielle at Chaco Credit Union. The driver who hit her has insurance but it wont even be close to the amount of her medical bills. Danielle is the mother of four children, ages 6, 4, 2, and 1. Any questions please contact Lisa Boyd at 513-668-6293.

Child Safety Fair

The Keeping Kids Safe Project will be hosting a free child safety fair in Florence, KY on February 11th and 12th to provide children with free fingerprints and photographs. The child safety organization will take a child’s fingerprints and send them home directly with parents. Parents can use the record to turn directly over to authorities anywhere in the world to instantly aid in an investigation. There will also be community organizations present to provide safety information and entertainment for families. Join us at the Kerry Toyota dealership at 6050 Hopeful Church Rd. from 10AM-4PM on Saturday and 12PM-4PM on Sunday.

Help Notre Dame Academy in Uganda win $50,000

Help Notre Dame Academy win a $50,000 technology grant from Clorox and Skype. We want this grant so we can reach our sister school, Notre Dame Academy in Uganda. They have no technology and we want to help them acquire a way to be global citizens as a part of our quest for social justice. The SND started our Ugandan school in the 70s and our students have never been able to contribute real service to them.

To Help Them Win:

Text clorox5774 to the number 44144

http://www.ndapandas.org/

5K Run - Walk 4 A Cause

Date: March 3rd, 2012

Time: The race starts at 10:00

Location: Glendale Square, Glendale, OH, 45246

Contact Info: Rebecca Heckman at bheckman@princetonschools.net or (513)-864-1819

Event Website: princetonschools.net/5k

Event Sponsor: Princeton High School Pasta for Pennies

Event Supports/Benefits: Leukemia and Lymphoma

Type of Event: Charity...Sports/Recreation...Health/Wellness...Outdoor/Recreation

Cost: $10 in advance...$15 day of...$5 for a t-shirt

Event Description: The 7th annual 5K Run/Walk 4 A Cause sees a couple hundred people running, walking, jogging, or just sauntering their way through 3.1 miles of the streets of Historic Glendale to help raise money for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society. Princeton students and staff organize the event as a part of their Pasta for Pennies campaign where we have raised more than $360,000 in our eleven years of fundraising. Entry is $10 in advance ($15 the day-of) plus $5 for a race t-shirt. Online registration is available. Top male and female/ runner and walker finishers in five age groups recieve a cake as prize.

Celebrities Supporting Jennifer Linnabary Cancer Fight - Asking Your Help

Contributed By: Carol Bray | Messiah Lutheran Church, Cincinnati, OH

The Cincinnati Reds, Christie Brinkley, Tony-Award winning composer Stephen Flaherty and Metropolitan Opera star Victoria Livengood are just a few of the many celebrities asking for your support for Cincinnatian Jennifer Linnabary’s fight against cancer. Linnabary, co-creator of Project SEARCH, has been diagnosed with mantle cell lymphoma, a rare, aggressive blood cancer. “My emotions are on a roller coaster ride, but my faith has grown so much since I started this journey,” said Linnabary. “I hope/love to have the energy to work again. I love my job.”

Linnabary is a vital citizen of Cincinnati and the health care world. In 1996 she helped create Project SEARCH, an award-winning international program that enables individuals with disabilities to get good, long-term jobs, improving their quality of life while also benefiting businesses and the community. Project SEARCH is based at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center and has program sites in nearly all 50 states, United Kingdom, Australia and Canada.

Linnabary has worked extensively with the international business and health care communities as employment coordinator of Project SEARCH. She has conferred with national leaders such as Assistant US Secretary of Labor Neil Romano and England’s Prince Edward. “On a more personal note, many Project SEARCH sites send staff to Children's to specifically spend time and learn from Jennifer. She is considered an expert in designing personal adaptations,” said Susie Rutkowski, Project SEARCH co-director/educational specialist at Great Oaks Institute of Technology and Career Development, where Linnabary is employed.

Linnabary’s battle with cancer is not new. She was diagnosed with mantel cell lymphoma in 2009. Her remission lasted a year. With its return in March of this year, Linnabary went on medical leave and on May 10, underwent a dangerous stem cell transplant from her brother, Gene, at Jewish Hospital, in Cincinnati.

Mantle cell lymphoma is one of the rarest of the non-Hodgkin's lymphomas, comprising less than 6 percent of NHL cases. There are only about 15,000 patients presently in the U.S. Less than 1 percent of these are women, making Linnabary 1 of about 140 U.S. patients with mantle cell lymphoma. The odds of one family member being an exact match for a bone marrow (stem cell) transplant are 24 percent or less. Out of Linnabary’s five siblings tested, three were a perfect match – about 1 in a million chances. Dr. E. Randolph Broun, Medical Director of The Jewish Hospital Blood and Marrow Transplant Center, Cincinnati, OH, said this has never happened in a family in his years of practice. Linnabary remains hospitalized long-term as doctors continue treatment to keep the new stem cells from rejecting her body.

The financial toll from last year’s initial treatment substantially crippled the Linnabary family. The cost of medical care this time may exceed $350,000. Family and friends of the Linnabarys are reaching out for help.

In a testament to how much Linnabary is loved, friends, family and celebrities around the world have opened their hearts in an outpouring of support for the Linnabarys. Messiah Lutheran Church, Cincinnati, has launched “Help Us Help Jennifer Linnabary Fight Cancer,” a donation campaign. The Church is also providing meals and giving the family spiritual and emotional support. “Our goal is to raise enough money to pay for Jennifer’s costly medical care and the daily living expenses of her family,” said the Rev. Scott Tessin, pastor of Messiah Lutheran. There are further plans being made for fundraisers and raffles by the church, as well as by relatives across the country.

A native of Bellefontaine, Ohio, Linnabary is a graduate of Xavier University and Otterbein College. She is married to Tim Linnabary and is the mother of Rebecca, a student at Miami University-Hamilton, OH, and Benjamin, a student at Colerain High School, Cincinnati.

To donate tax-free to this special lady, go online to: Help Us Help Jennifer Linnabary Fight Cancer – http://helpjenniferlinnabary.blogspot.com. See Linnabary’s story, photos and the well wishes arriving daily from celebrities, friends across the nation and those around the world familiar with and/or benefitted by Linnabary’s work on the website. You can also donate at Messiah Lutheran Church, or First National Bank of Fairfield. Jennifer Linnabary can also be found on Facebook.