Make-a-wish

Now, here’s a great charity to contribute to. If you’re looking for some organization to make an end of the year contribution to, pick this one. Find your local chapter and send some money their way. The Make-a-Wish foundation in Idaho probably grants 60 or more wishes a year to children diagnosed with life threatening diseases. We were contacted by the foundation and began the process of selecting a wish that they might be able to grant. The first thing on Tim’s list was to meet Michael Schumacher the multi-time formula one champion. And perhaps do it at an F1 race. It might still be possible even though Schumacher retired at the end of this last season. But some car race event would be what Tim would like to attend. So he’s also looking at a Le mans race as something to attend. It would be real sweet to do such a thing. He has time though to decide because he really can’t go anywhere until treatment is done. That will be at least until June next year when we expect the treatment to be done and his counts to have recovered sufficiently to allow him to be in crowded areas.

This is also the time of year that make-a-wish does a lot of fund raising. Tim has been able to participate in some of those events. He’s been interviewed on the evening news during the outdoor weather forecast, been invited to the annual induction ceremony for the Humanitarian Hall of Fame, attended a Steelheads hockey game in town and as part of that went down on the ice in between periods to shoot rubber ducks to the center spot, been interviewed on radio, and featured on the evening news as being sponsored by the local CBS affiliate.

--bob