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#1 - Free Wheel Chair Mission
Please,
please look at their home page video first at:
www.freewheelchairmission.org
Comment from daughter Michelle about that video...
The video is very touching and it looks like a great cause.
We have a wheelchair for that charity on display at my work. You
should come by and see it. You may give someone a smile on their
face by raising enough money to become mobile again. That
video was sad, but real.
The
Free
Wheel Chair Mission
is a small organization based in my home town of Irvine and
founded by a PhD mechanical engineer, Don Schoendorfer.
Someone that wanted to use his talents to make a difference in
the world. Don figured out how to use mountain bike parts and
some other common stuff to manufacture, ship & distribute a
dirt-capable wheelchair for a mere $51.29 each. This is a big
deal to people in the third world that don't have paved roads
- or working legs.
My special fund raising website for the
Free Wheelchair Mission is:
http://fwm.kintera.org/70at70
You can donate online at that link with
your credit card. If you'd like to send a check, just reply to
me and I'll give you the particulars. |
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#2 - Karno Kids
This
charity was started by Dean Karnazes, who is the famous ultra
runner who ran 50 marathons in a row in 50 days, one in each state
(www.ultramarathonman.com).
Dean is a good friend of my daughter Michelle!
The mission at
KARNO KIDS is to encourage, motivate, inspire our youth to get
outside and become physically active, and to restore &
preserve the environment for their use and enjoyment. KARNO
KIDS is a non-profit 501(c)(3) corporation and donations are
tax deductible.
Go to my special web page:
www.active.com/donate/karnokids/70at70
Please help me
raise money for KARNO KIDS. Use the above link to
donate. The website is secure, fast and easy to use. At the
website you will be able to choose an amount to donate and
receive email confirmation of your donation. Thanks in advance
for your help.
The photo at the right
is Dean and daughter Michelle. This was after the ECO-Marathon
trail race on Catalina Island on Saturday November 17, 2007.
Michelle was 1st female and she set the female course record -
one of a dozen course records she set that year. |
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Michelle was 7th overall
out of 249 finishers and finished in 3:32:40. Dean was 25th
overall and finished in 4:08:21. Since this was an
ECOLOGY minded event, Dean decided to help with the publicity
effort and make his way to the event without using any fossil
fuels. He first ran 100 miles along the roads up from San
Diego, then he KAYAKED 26 miles across to Catalina Island and
the NEXT MORNING ran the 26.2 mile ECO-marathon!!
Just finishing after all that would be amazing! On
Thursday, two days earlier, Michelle ran 37 miles with her
friend Dean on the roads to cheer him on even though she hates
running on pavement. |
#3
- The Arthritis Foundation
www.arthritis.org
For the donation page
honoring my Mom click on:
Lorraine Malewicki
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My dear
Mom, Lorraine Malewicki, passed away one year ago on February
24th, 2008 at age 88. That is her with my younger brother
Jerry in her lap - probably was taken in 1943 or so. I am
the other one. Mom had bad arthritis for years. It
doesn't kill you, but sure takes the fun out of everything.
Her Mom
Elizabeth, had it even worse. Grandma Betty was pretty
much incapacitated and barely able to walk in her early 40s. I
think one of the reasons I have tried to stay super active is
because their arthritis problems were just plain scary. I
have always felt activity had to help.
I was very
happy to read in the latest February 09 Arthritis Today
Magazine about knees and running. Page 63 - The
Knees Have It. The author was honest enough to point out
that now a pile of new research is revealing that much of the
conventional wisdom about osteoarthritis may be wrong. One
of the paragraphs was entitled Knees need to move.
Several new studies have shown that exercise protects knees and
eases arthritis pain. |
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This same
article by the magazine's medical editor,
Brenda Goodman,
also claims that exercise keeps the cartilage
"lubricated" and that even high impact exercises like running
help. The article further stated that in a study published
in the August 2008 issue of the American Journal of Preventative
Medicine, researchers followed 45 long-distance runners
and 53 none runners for 18 years. By the end of this study,
people who had not participated in long-distance running had
actually lost more cartilage and joint space on x-rays, and had
more total knee replacements, then the long-distance runners.
Obviously,
I intend to keep doing my trail running as long as I can. I must
add that I avoid long-distance running on the road. It gives me
a stiff back the next morning, whereas when running on the
softer trails you're going up, you're going down, you're dancing
around rocks and tree roots. When I wake up the next morning
after a trail run it is like I had a back massage. Feels great. |
#4
- The American Cancer Society
www.cancer.org
For the
donation page honoring my Mom click on:
Lorraine Malewicki
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numerous physical problems including the above bad painful
arthritis, congestive heart failure, etc., but it was
metastasizing cancer that was listed as her primary cause of
death. It is especially scary for everyone that a person can eat
right, exercise, maintain a healthy weight and cancer can still
take away everything. Every donation will put us closer to
understanding cancer better and thus an eventual cure. |
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#5
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Christ Church of
Hamilton and Wenham
www.christchurchhw.org
Father
Jurgen Liias, Rector
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We met
Father Jurgen last August, when my daughter Michelle and grand
daughter Sierra (age 8 at the time) and I were attempting to
hike up to the summit of Mount Quandary at 14,286 feet elevation
in Colorado.
The most interesting aspect of the climb was befriending Father
Jorgen, an Episcopal priest from the Boston area.
Father
Jorgen was already on his way down from the peak as we met again. 8
year old Sierra was probably
already at 14,000', but was really struggling on the rocky trail the last
few hundred yards to the top. He put his hand on her head and made
up a special mountain prayer just for her to give her strength and
the will to make it to the top and also for a safe descent. She
made it and she will never forget him. |
More pictures about 8 year old Sierra's summit accomplishment with the
help of Father Jurgen at:
Mount Quandary |
Unfortunately, I
have never been to his church. However, I have listened to several
of Father Jurgen's
online recordings of his sermons.
Pretty easy to tell this is a good man and a very practical,
non-dogmatic, thinking, human being. Might want to take the time
to go to that link and listen to a random sermon.
His church does
NOT have a fancy online donation web page. They don't even take
credit cards! If interested you will have to write a check and
mail it in. Please put 70at70 somewhere on the check, so
they know what it is about.
Address:
Christ Church of Hamilton and Wenham
149 Asbury Street, PO Box 2057
South Hamilton, MA 01982
Telephone:
978-468-446
Office Staff: Office
Hours: 9:00 AM-4:30 PM, Monday-Friday
Holly Greening Clergy Secretary, holly.greening@christchurchhw.org
Eileen Thomas Parish Administrator, eileen.thomas@christchurchhw.org |
Well
friends & relatives, if nothing else, thanks for wading this far through my
"solicitations". I hope my 70at70 quest may be worthy of $.10 a mile?
OR how about a penny for every hundred feet of elevation climbed? Doing
the 70 miles @ 10 cents per mile would be a simple $7.00 donation. Doing
the 14,200 foot of climbs @ 1/10th of a cent per foot would be a $14.20
donation. Any more, of course, would be awesome.
Thanks
loads, Old Goat Doug Malewicki.
(Please note that all of the above are recognized non-profit organizations
and thus are tax deductible donations.)
February 28,
2009 update: Several friends have contacted me and indicated they have
favorite charities they like to support and asked me if making donations
to those charities on behalf of my 70at70 was okay. of course it is,
what a wonderful idea! (When I finish my 70 miles, I will list all
the charities if we've been able to help on this webpage.)
Looking for SPONSORS
HELP SEND THE
"KIDS" TO CAMP!
The
2008 California Old Goats team of Steve Harvey & Doug Malewicki would
love to race in the 2009 Gore-Tex
Transrockies 6 day endurance run again. Steve
will be 65 and I will be 70! Entry fee per person is $1,350.
Steve has a construction business and he has to really watch his
pennies in this economy. If we get any donations or sponsorship
deals, Steve will get his entry fee taken care of first.
Anything beyond that I will be happy to use to defray my entry fee
costs. We will appreciate money, ideas and possible sponsor
contacts. Being our ages and still doing this should qualify us
to be great potential candidates for sponsorship by AARP, Polident,
Viagra, Flow Max, Depends, etc. right? :-)
If you haven't looked at our California Old Goats Transrockies
race page
yet, please check it out.
If we obtain a great sponsor, we also like them to consider adding
TEAM FIERCE, which is my daughter Michelle Barton and her best
friend, the intense and powerful Keira Henninger under their wing too.
For more information email Doug at:
DMalewicki@cox.net
(Note: this is business and thus
not tax deductible). |
Female co-winners of the December 13, 2008 Twin Peaks 50K trail race,
Keira Henninger and Michelle Barton, cross the finish line
hand-in-hand! |
If you have any questions
or comments you can also EMail Doug at:
Doug@CaliforniaOldGoats.com
California Old Goats
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