| Subject: Rick MacLeod sent this to a bunch of people so I don't think he'd mind |
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Date Posted: Friday, September 21, 04:05:43pm
if I share it with you guys:
I got home last night. The car is in Woodstock, getting fixed,
its just something that three trips to Nfld running it hard did, or maybe
I over reved the motor and stretched something. At any rate, as always ,
I brought it back without a scratch. It was still a great trip, and
when I got to Marys Town, the young handicap kid Jason Nolan was waiting
for me, he always comes to meet us, he loves mustangs. He has a die
cast model car collection of 120 cars, of which 70 are mustangs. I was
standing in the car show, and the crowd parted, and there he was in his
chair looking at me. I pointed right at him and he started smiling and
moving back and forth excitedly. I walked over and bent down and held
his hand and said I have been looking for you. His mother said he has
been looking for you. I said I have something for you, and she said he
knows you do (as we always give him one of our shirts every year, a
different one). I said he doesn't know what I have for him this year. I
had Rick Dupuis replicate my car perfectly, and I presented Jason the
model, along with our regular uniform which we bring him every
year. The TV crew was there to cover it, the interviewer and even the
camera man was crying. It really made everyone realize just how lucky we
are to be able to walk, and talk, and live a normal life, which is the
purpose of Racing Against MS. I want to continue to raise money for
these handicapped kids, and I think it will be the new focus this
year. There was a 16 year old boy there with Cerebral Palsy, who was
permitted to drive a car, opening the race, and he told of how Easter
Seals changed his life. He had limited speech, as his throat muscles
don't work, but he really had everyone in tears while he spoke. They had
an auction for next years entry, which stopped at $9200 (I had won), and
when it didn't go higher, I stood up and said I will up my bid to $12,000
if you sell another one to my friend Afshin for $12,000, which they
agreed, making the total of the nights auction $50,000 for Easter Seals.
I have a huge pile of paperwork on my desk here, and have not yet
unloaded the RV. My cell phone isn't working, I will have to go get a
new one today some time.
There is a slide show on our website, on the top right corner above
Rick and Ashleigh get married, called Targa 2007
www.RacingAgainstMS.com
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