Posted by TeamCharlie on November 18, 2008 under Just for Fun | 
Be the First to Comment
Some pictures just say it all. I think this one is one of them. It was taken several years ago when MaryMargaret was about three years old. I don’t even know who the boy is. Makes you wonder what’s going on in their little heads.
Posted by TeamCharlie on November 7, 2008 under Kids are Heroes, Music for Life | Be the First to Comment
You may recall that in the summer of 2008 MaryMargaret and her two friends Rianna and Taylor held a lemonade stand to benefit the children at Camp Friendship, which is a camp for kids diagnosed with cancer. We gave them all Webkinz, which are stuffed animals, not realizing there would be older kids there. I asked MaryMargaret what could she give them this year that they would all like to have. Her immediate response was “iPods”. I thought this was a terrific idea, since music has such therapeutic qualities.
MaryMargaret has dubbed her new initiative as “Music for Life”. As you might guess this ‘raises the bar’ a bit as far as the level of financing that will be required to meet this goal. If Apple does not offer a deeper discount for the iPods (our goal is 80 iPod Nanos), we will be targeting just over $12,000.00 to be gained by June of 2009. This will require some creative fund raising on our part – suggestions welcome in the comments section. We have planted the seeds for some already, as this venture will require a lot of effort and planning. MaryMargaret is committed to this project and will be there every step of the way. Stay tuned as we update her progress.
11/11/08 Update to this story:
The Frederick News Post has asked me to be a ‘Citizen Blogger’. This could not be better timing as I plan to track and show MaryMargaret’s progress every step of the way on this project. This new blog will be devoted almost exclusively to this cause, so stay tuned – I will let everyone know when it gets started.
12/24/08 Update: Since iPods require iTunes accounts, we didn’t want to complicate the lives of these kids any further so we changed our target to MP3 players. The good news is that with the same amount of money we can award all 160 campers with their own MP3 player! That is our new goal. Track MaryMargaret’s progress!
