This message below is from DOFB  member Birch Shambaugh who will be running the NYC Marathon this year with Fred’s Team, a worthy charity. Please read below and encourage you to click on the link and make a donation

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Dear friends and family,

Howdy all – I’m writing to tell you about my latest endeavor and to court
your support.  I’m currently training to run the NYC marathon again and
this time will be running to raise money for Memorial Sloan-Kettering’s
Fred’s Team.  Fred’s Team is an excellent program which helps raise money
to battle Cancer.  While running the marathon is itself a personally
rewarding goal, running it for a larger cause makes the effort far more
meaningful.

Sadly, cancer is a personal issue for nearly everyone.  If you don’t know
someone whose had to fight it in one for or another, you’re a very rare
and lucky person.  Cancer research and treatment centers like
Sloan-Kettering in New York and the Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa (where
Fayth’s father Fritz was treated) are at the leading edge of laboratory
and clinical research and provide advanced treatments that offer hope and
can save lives.

Fred’s Team is raising money for the Aubrey Fund for Pediatric Cancer
Research which specializes in treating a number of types of cancer in
children, especially cancers of the blood and lymph system like acute
lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL). It’s my hope this small effort will help do
some good in the fight to save lives, buy time and reduce heartache.  If
you feel like supporting the cause, please visit my donation web page
where you can also learn all you may want to know about Memorial
Sloan-Kettering and Fred’s Team.

https://fredsteam.mskcc.org/fundraising/Controller?action=userHome&user_id
=38118&event_id=53

Thanks for your time and I hope this finds all well.
Love,
-birch