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“I’d rather have cancer than watch someone else go through it,” are the brave words of Kennedy, 14. This outgoing teenager’s maturity comes from years of treatment for osteogenic sarcoma, a type of bone cancer in her femur. When asked if she would go through cancer again, she said, “Cancer has taken so much from me, yet I...(read more)
Welcome Winter!
For a lot of us it has been a very short season in the timber industry, with the late start to the season and early onset of winter at least in California. We had snow in June this year! The economy, too, has made fundraising difficult, and it looks like it will be some time before we Americans will be back on our feet. When people are apprehensive about their future, they hold on to things very tightly-and that includes their hard-earned money.
John Forno and Laura MacGregor had a beautiful granddaughter, Alicia Rose Fiore, who left this world on January 14, 2011. She was almost 14. She was born with spina bifida and received care from the Spina Bifida Association of Arizona in Phoenix. John and Laura have always had a generous heart for Log A Load For Kids® and would donate every year to auctions, raffles, or anything that raised funds for "The Kids." In July 2011, they had trees at their residence that they wanted removed. John and Laura decided to donate the money from the logs to the hospital where their granddaughter received her medical care. When John and Laura's neighbors found out about that project, they donated trees off their property, too, to make sure there would be a full load.
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