$2000 donation to American Red Cross from UPEW!
Ken Gracey
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Hey all,
As mentioned in the UPEW thread, we hosted·a raffle at Parallax on Saturday afternoon. The prizes were donated by many fine folks:
Mountain King Technologies
Bill Henning
SchmartBoard
Parallax
OBC
Ole Man Earl
WBA Consulting
Joe Grand
Terry Hitt
Gadget Gangster
There were more·donations from other folks·and I didn't take notes of their names or company, but they can reply to this thread with a "hey, I donated too!"
Anyway, we sold $932 worth of raffle tickets. Parallax matched the donation dollar for dollar and rounded it up to $2,000 total.·The excitement around this raffle was·really high·since the kids ran the·prize distribution. And they were funny, too [noparse]:)[/noparse] Everybody felt really positive about helping out the Red Cross.
A sloppy copy of the check is attached below. Today we will send it to the Red Cross.
Thanks to everybody who bought tickets and donated prizes.
Sincerely,
Ken Gracey
As mentioned in the UPEW thread, we hosted·a raffle at Parallax on Saturday afternoon. The prizes were donated by many fine folks:
Mountain King Technologies
Bill Henning
SchmartBoard
Parallax
OBC
Ole Man Earl
WBA Consulting
Joe Grand
Terry Hitt
Gadget Gangster
There were more·donations from other folks·and I didn't take notes of their names or company, but they can reply to this thread with a "hey, I donated too!"
Anyway, we sold $932 worth of raffle tickets. Parallax matched the donation dollar for dollar and rounded it up to $2,000 total.·The excitement around this raffle was·really high·since the kids ran the·prize distribution. And they were funny, too [noparse]:)[/noparse] Everybody felt really positive about helping out the Red Cross.
A sloppy copy of the check is attached below. Today we will send it to the Red Cross.
Thanks to everybody who bought tickets and donated prizes.
Sincerely,
Ken Gracey
1207 x 351 - 33K
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Regards,
John Twomey
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If you think this is inspirational, did you know that Ole Man Earl spent 3 months in Banda Aceh, Indonesia after the tsunami? That's right - he was installing new wireless internet communication gear on donated time. The only reason he came back is because he got some kind of misquito-borne disease and he had to board a US Navy ship to get better in their hospital. Maybe he'll chime in and tell us the whole story. He didn't complain about eating rice for several months either.
Ken Gracey
And our enthusiasm is motivated by your encouragement!
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I sure didn't, would like to hear the story.
Rich H
I spent quite a bit of time chatting with Earl, he is a character and a great guy. Had a lot of fun listening to some of his stories.
Did you know he STILL climbs 70' radio towers????
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www.mikronauts.com - my site my 6.250MHz custom Crystals for running Propellers at 100MHz
Las - Large model assembler for the Propeller Largos - a feature full nano operating system for the Propeller
Please use mikronauts _at_ gmail _dot_ com to contact me off-forum, my PM is almost totally full