Leukemia Benefit Race and Fund Raiser

mangeldbug · July 06, 2009, 09:02:17 AM

I am a member of the Ohio YSR League mini-racing club. Around Thanksgiving 2008 it was announced that one of our members, a 13 year old kid and fellow racer, Harrison Ringel, was diagnosed with leukemia. Harrison is so far doing well, but it has been unbelievably hard on everyone involved, especially his family. Fortunately the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society has been phenomenal. They have done so much, in fact, that Harrison's father wants to give back to this organization by putting on a benefit race to raise money for the Society.

Harrison racing his tricked out racebike just 1 month before his diagnosis

And here he is (#617) on August 22, 2009 still beating out the competition despite the chemotherapy!

In addition to the race entry fees and kart rental fees generating money for the benefit, Harrison's father is also selling T-Shirts. Any organization (such as the DMF) to raise $100 or more was listed as a "sponsor" on the benefit race T-shirts.

Money was collected via Paypal through August 31, 2009, and amazingly the DMF donated a whopping $1000 with the DMF match amount! The most out of any sponsor...which gave us TOP BILLING for the Benefit T-shirts!

To order a shirt, please fill out THIS FORM.
They are $10. Again, all monies collected from T-shirt sales will be donated to the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society.
After submitting the form, Harrison's father Paul will send you an email with the total and where to send a check. Once he receives your check, you will be mailed your T-shirt.

Here are some pictures of the finished product:

FRONT: (Harrison is on the right in the 2nd picture)

BACK

Here is a link to the benefit race details: http://sites.google.com/site/harrisonbenefitrace/
Here is a link to Harrison's Caring Bridge Journal: http://www.caringbridge.org/visit/harrisonringel

You don't have to just donate; if you are anywhere near Circleville (near Columbus) Ohio, please come out and RACE!! We are a mini-racing club and race NSR50's, YSR50's, motards, XR100's, scooters, pocketbikes, etc. We also have a lot of kids that race with us and the go-karts will be available for rental during practice and at other scheduled times during the day. More details on all of that are in the benefit race link above.

Harrison is a great kid, polite, fun - always happy. Even with all that is going on right now you just cant bring him down. Everyone involved with OYL was devastated when we learned he was diagnosed with leukemia.

Harrison is on the left with my dog and his best friend on the right.

Thanks everyone!

ADDED MARCH 2010
A video of Harrison's story: "Dude, where's my hair?"
http://www.youtube.com/user/MegaDudeshow#p/a/u/2/bFpsB2yKaUk

Statler · July 06, 2009, 09:16:59 AM

cool fundraiser. Wish I were closer for the event itself. Money on its way.

z0mb1e_DUC · July 06, 2009, 11:33:29 AM

Lost a close friend to cancer 23yrs ago. He was sixteen. No child should have to go thru this.

Money sent.

Statler · July 07, 2009, 04:37:27 PM

From the start of this forum to date, the admins have each taken fifty dollars as a beer/drink money as a thank you to the members who have donated to the beer fund (pictures in progress as we know we now owe drunkled proof). After expenses, that leaves us with a bit. We're making sure the rainy day fund is ok so the DMF won't go away, but after a year it's time to start giving back the extra.

The DMF will match member donations up to a total donation of $500

If you were about to donate to the DMF, send it here instead, and the DMF will match you dollar for dollar. It's not like the admins need more booze right now. (well...sort of...but not paid for by anyone else

)

Kristen will give us a total. Let's not waste any and match the $500 DMF amount!

cheers,

Chris and all the DMF admins.

mangeldbug · July 07, 2009, 05:02:36 PM

WOW that is so awesome of you guys! Extremely generous, and I know the Ringel family will be so happy to hear this.

Right now our DMF total is at $10.

Everyone who decides to donate, please put "DMF" in the paypal notes section. Then there will be no guessing where the money came from!!

We need $100 by the end of July to be listed as a sponsor on the race benefit T-shirts, but we will be collecting donations through the end of August. I would love to see $500 in donations from members! That would be phenomenal!

Grampa · July 07, 2009, 05:13:46 PM

somegirl · July 07, 2009, 06:01:36 PM

sent

DoubleEagle · July 07, 2009, 06:06:15 PM

How do you or can you handle credit card donation ?

Dolph

x136 · July 07, 2009, 06:18:58 PM

Quote from: Statler on July 07, 2009, 04:37:27 PMThe DMF will match member donations up to a total donation of $500

Rad!

Quote from: DoubleEagle on July 07, 2009, 06:06:15 PMHow do you or can you handle credit card donation ?

If you make a PayPal account, you can use a credit card.

Popeye the Sailor · July 07, 2009, 06:21:06 PM

Quote from: DoubleEagle on July 07, 2009, 06:06:15 PM
How do you or can you handle credit card donation ?

Dolph

Dolph-you're in Ohio, this is in Ohio-you near? You should go do a track day there

mangeldbug · July 07, 2009, 06:27:12 PM

Quote from: DoubleEagle on July 07, 2009, 06:06:15 PM
How do you or can you handle credit card donation ?

Dolph

Do you not have or do not want to get a Paypal account? We just upgraded the account to Premier so we can now accept credit card donations through Paypal. You just have to have the credit card you wish to use added to your account. Other than the Paypal option, we have no way to accept credit card donations.

SWEET- we just hit $150 in DMF donations!! We are now officially sponsors for the benefit race. Could an admin or mod please email me a high resolution file of the DMF logo that you would want to be on the shirt? I will then get it to Paul ASAP.

red baron · July 07, 2009, 06:38:40 PM

sent

Grampa · July 07, 2009, 06:40:03 PM

and....where can we purchase a shirt to further help?

mangeldbug · July 07, 2009, 06:49:08 PM

Quote from: bobspapa on July 07, 2009, 06:40:03 PM
and....where can we purchase a shirt to further help?

I thought we could order shirts on the benefit race details site, but looking at it now it doesnt look like ordering is possible at this time. I think Paul (Harrison's father) planned to have the T-shirt sales actually AT the event, but selling them remotely to people unable to be there on 9-12 is a good plan. I will ask Paul how he wants to do that and get back to you guys.

Grampa · July 07, 2009, 06:50:13 PM

Quote from: mangeldbug on July 07, 2009, 06:49:08 PM
I thought we could order shirts on the benefit race details site, but looking at it now it doesnt look like ordering is possible at this time. I think Paul (Harrison's father) planned to have the T-shirt sales actually AT the event, but selling them remotely to people unable to be there on 9-12 is a good plan. I will ask Paul how he wants to do that and get back to you guys.

gracias

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