[Bordermarch] Ironlance -Son / Cythe the BearSLayer's boy, Jason

[benliz]

   A. Fryar from Ironlance sent this to us about

Cythe the Bear Slayer's son, Jason Metcalf.

Cythe is originally from Bordermarch.

Jason's photo with the patient is attached.





























This is about Cythe the BearSlayer's son, Chris & Carmen Metcalf's son / 
Jason Metcalf

 Boy's Campaign Makes National News

     "Now he may take ALS fight to Washington"

     > By Mary Maraghy  Clay County Line staff writer

     > With his spiked red hair stiff with styling gel, Jason Metcalfe
     >fidgeted excitedly  in his pin-striped shirt and navy blue suit.
     >
     > The 11-year-old Middleburg boy was about to hand over more than
     >than $1,300 to  officials from the national ALS Association, money
    he had raised selling candy and  soliciting donations for research
    for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, commonly known as Lou Gehrig's
    disease.
     > 
     >
     > The rare neurodegenerative disease, which progressively paralyzes
     >a person, has no  known cure.
     >
     > Greg Stuart, vice president of the ALS Association in California,
     >came to Orange  Park last week to meet Jason in person. Stuart
    said he was moved by the story of  this freckled boy who used his
    tooth-fairy money to buy candy to sell to help his  school
    principal's husband, George Chapman, who has ALS.
     >
     > Jason's goal was to raise $500. But reports of his efforts spread
    across the
     > country and donations poured in from as far as Alaska.
     >
     > "Every day I go home. I run outside. I check the mail. My mom gets
     >the bills and I  get nice letters with checks in them," said
    Jason, who has kept >every letter and  envelope. He's especially
    intrigued by one that came with a $250 check and a letter addressed
    to Master Jason Metcalfe.
     >
     > "I've never been called Master Jason before," he said, smiling.
     >
     > Also, UPS recently left a case of 164 Hershey bars at his house
     >that someone had  sent him.
     >
     > "Selling candy is the easy part," Jason said. "The hard part is
    writing all the
     > 'thank you' notes."
     >
     > Jason has a handwriting disorder called dysgraphia and as a result
     >he has struggled  in school. But after meeting and befriending
    Chapman about 18 months ago, Jason  vowed to become a research
    scientist and search for a cure for ALS and thus turned  his grades
    from Cs and Ds to As and
    Bs.
     >
     > Stuart and Dara Alexander of Tampa, president of the Florida
     >chapter of the ALS  Association, arranged to meet Jason at
    Chapman's house in Orange Park.
     >
     > A spiffed-up Jason, complete with a Mickey Mouse tie tack on his
     >new red neck tie,  greeted them and presented Stuart with a check for
     >$1,304.81.
     >
     > Stuart's eyes bugged when Jason rattled off the total.
     >
     > "That is very impressive," Stuart said.
     >
     > Later, Jason's eyes bugged when Alexander asked if he wanted to
     >speak to lawmakers  in Washington, D.C., this spring during ALS
    advocacy
     >day.
     >
     > "I think Jason would do a great job and be a compelling witness
     >for our cause,"  Alexander said. "It's amazing how legislators
    respond to
     >children."
     > 
     > Jason, who has never been to Washington, said he'd love to go.
     >
     > Chapman, who may go to Washington, too, depending on his
     >condition, told the ALS  officials that he's been overwhelmed by
    Jason's
     >initiative.
     > "He has totally blown me over," Chapman said.
     >

------------------------------------------------------------------------
<http://us.rd.yahoo.com/evt=21608/*http://webhosting.yahoo.com/ps/sb/>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.ansteorra.org/pipermail/bordermarch-ansteorra.org/attachments/20040203/9d3e4acd/attachment-0001.htm>
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: pic08942.jpg
Type: image/pjpeg
Size: 7826 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: <http://lists.ansteorra.org/pipermail/bordermarch-ansteorra.org/attachments/20040203/9d3e4acd/attachment-0001.bin>