Thank you all so much to all my family and friends who supported my shave last year to raise funds for research to find a cure for childhood cancer research with the St Baldrick's Foundation. Last year with your generous support, the Foundation raised over $39,000,000. So from the bottom of my heart THANK YOU SO VERY MUCH!!!!!<
This year I will be shaving my head in honor of my friend Mikie Weinstein. I had the honor to meeting Mikie years ago at the Rockaway's St Baldrick's event. I was also honored to join Mikie in ringing the opening Bell at the NYSE in honor of the St Baldrick's Foundation. Mike has been battling his cancer for more than half his life and doing so with a level bravery that most adults could never muster. This year I ask all my friends & family to keep Mikie & his family in your prayers while he continues to battle. I hope we can make him proud of our efforts to find a cure so that one day no child will ever have to fight this horrendous disease.
So I will be shaving my head each year to help raise awareness and funds for childhood cancer research. This will be my 17th shave for the St Baldrick's Foundation, and sadly it will not be my last. I have committed to shave my head each year until we find a more humane cure for every child diagnosed with cancer. . While cure rates are better then they were 40 years ago, there has not been much improvement in the cure rates over the last decade. In the United States, childhood cancer continues to kill more of our children then Aids, Asthma, diabetes, cystic fibrosis and congenital anomalies combined. Although we have accomplished much in our first fifteen years, losing just one child to this horrible disease is more then any of us should be willing to accept. And while we are curing more kids today, the cure is often worse then the disease. We need to find a more humane cure that leaves the child cancer free and undamaged from the cure.
Thus I again humbly ask that you support my efforts to raise money to fund life saving research. With help and support from all of you, the day will come when Childhood cancer will be nothing but a bad memory. But until then I commit to shave my head once a year( and sometimes twice) until we find a cure.
This year's event will be back at the St Agnes Parish Center on March 21, 2015. If you would enjoy seeing just how bad the grow out makes me look or the mound of hair left in the wake of my shave, please join us in a fun way to raise funds for the serious mission of finding a cure for childhood cancer!!!
Thank you again for your generous support!!!!
A very grateful
John
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