The Twister Combine will have a 250 mile benefit
cancer race on October
20, 2012 from Hugo, Oklahoma. Proceeds from this race will go to help children battling cancer.
20, 2012 from Hugo, Oklahoma. Proceeds from this race will go to help children battling cancer.
Funds are raised through (1) direct donation, (2) AU banded
pigeon racing, and (3) auction. Anyone and
everyone are invited to take part.
To race a combine bird, the bands cost $10 each
and will be sold until October 19, shipping day. Proceeds will be presented on behalf of the
winner and the Twister Combine.
If you are a fancier yourself and would like to
fly your own birds, please send your birds along with the $10 donation to the
Combine. (At this point in the year,
this applies to the 2013 race.)
This year’s auction features 2 footballs signed
by the Iowa Barn Stormers arena football team’s NFL potentials. Donations are provided by event chairman
Jerry Smith’s nephew, a past team member.
“We’re trying to get more pigeon racing clubs involved in helping kids
in their area. If we can get clubs to
work together, even the $10 donation will help the recipients with gas money,”
says Jerry. He hopes to obtain more
items signed by celebrities to auction off for more donation recipients.
For information about this Race, contact:
Jerry Smith Twister Combine President at
620-743-3039.
Send any email correspondence to
TwisterCombine@gmail.com
Send any email correspondence to
TwisterCombine@gmail.com
Donations may be sent to:
St. Clair County State Bank
680 North 2nd
P.O. Box 539
Osceola, Missouri 64776
The goal for this year’s benefit is to raise enough to help
the families of the following:
MISSOURI – Courtney
This
is Courtney. She will be fifteen in
September this year. She is infatuated
with the color pink and Paris’ Eifel Tower.
Her bedroom is covered with the theme:
pink walls, Eifel Tower statues, pictures, jigsaw puzzle, and
quilt. Her two cats are her
buddies. She has done well in
cheerleading and gymnastic competitions.
She may not be into boys yet, but she loves Justin Bieber.
Courtney
just started her highschool freshman year when she experienced stomach pains
and was diagnosed with stage 3 lymphoma.
Treatment is out of state, in Memphis, Tennessee. Courtney lives in Missouri. She spent April through July in
treatment. The family now goes back and
forth five to six weeks, spends a week, and then comes back for a few days. This lasts for four treatments. This session of treatments will continue
through mid-September, and then the family will travel back and forth for
another month for heavier chemotherapy treatments. Right now, Courtney is homeschooled to
protect her immune system. Once Courtney
is on maintenance treatments, she will be able to go back to school. Maintenance treatments continue for two or
more years.
Courtney’s
dad is retired navy and was working full time until the economy forced
elimination of his job. He is currently
going to school to retrain, which keeps him away during the day. Her mom works full time as an accounting
clerk. Courtney’s grandmother takes care
of her during the day. Saying the
family’s budget is stretched, would be putting it mildly.
IOWA – Alivia
This is Alivia. As a
typical young girl, she loves to play with Barbies, ride her bike, go camping
with her family, and play school. She
also loves sports: soccer, softball and
volleyball.
This picture was taken when she was a flower girl in a wedding in
2011, one month before she was diagnosed with Philadelphia Chromosome Positive
Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia or Ph+ALL for short. While the ALL part of this
cancer is very common among children, the Ph+ part is extremely rare. It
is most common in adults and most often results in death.
The cure rate among children and a defined treatment is
unknown so Alivia is in a clinical study to help children in the future
have a "road map" to follow to find a cure. Alivia’s family lives 100 miles from the
hospital where she receives chemotherapy and medication. She is admitted every three weeks for 5 to 6
days at a time, for three years.
