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| Photo taken from press box at Fenway Park |
On Saturday I joined several hundred other PMC riders, volunteers, and "Pedal Partners" for an event at Fenway Park. A Pedal Partner is a child undergoing treatment at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute. Many of the PMC riding teams "adopt" a pedal partner as their mascot, and in many cases, meet their pedal partner at one of the rest stops during the ride.
I was at Fenway with Casey, our Pedal Partner for the PMC Sandwich Kids Ride. Yes, we're recruiting kids as young as 3 years old to help raise money to fight cancer...and last year, thirty Kids Rides raised almost $750,000.
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| Photo from 2016 PMC Kids Ride |
I'm helping to organize the Sandwich Kids Ride, which will be held this coming Saturday, rain or shine (just like the big ride). And the 75 riders, ages 3-14, will ride a portion of the "big ride" route along the canal in Sandwich and Bourne.
I've gotten to know Casey over the past couple of months. He's a hockey player, a baseball player, a bright young man who just happened to miss his entire eighth grade school year due to intensive treatments at the Dana Farber. I had the pleasure of touring Fenway Park with him and his mom.
Casey, and others like him, are a big part of the reason I have ridden the PMC for twenty years. In celebration of my twentieth ride, I'm asking supporters to add 20 to your donation.
- Add twenty percent to last year's donation amount.
- Add twenty dollars.
- Add twenty whatever...
And if you haven't donated to the PMC before, please...donate $20.
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| Photo from 2016 PMC Kids Ride |
Or take twenty minutes of your time to sign up as a volunteer, to help ensure that the PMC runs smoothly this year, as it has done in years past.
Together we can help kids like Casey to have brighter futures, and for others to benefit from cures we can't even imagine today.
Thank you for your support!
With love,
Lee
