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Ironlance sent this to us about<br>
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This is about Cythe the BearSlayer's son, Chris & Carmen Metcalf's son
/ Jason Metcalf<br>
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Boy's Campaign Makes National News
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<p> "Now he may take ALS fight to Washington" <br>
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> By Mary Maraghy Clay County Line staff writer <br>
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<p>> With his spiked red hair stiff with styling gel, Jason Metcalfe
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>fidgeted excitedly in his pin-striped shirt and navy blue suit. <br>
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> The 11-year-old Middleburg boy was about to hand over more than <br>
>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. <br>
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> The rare neurodegenerative disease, which progressively paralyzes <br>
>a person, has no known cure. <br>
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> Greg Stuart, vice president of the ALS Association in California, <br>
>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. <br>
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> Jason's goal was to raise $500. But reports of his efforts spread across
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> country and donations poured in from as far as Alaska.<br>
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> "Every day I go home. I run outside. I check the mail. My mom gets <br>
>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.
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> "I've never been called Master Jason before," he said, smiling. <br>
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> Also, UPS recently left a case of 164 Hershey bars at his house <br>
>that someone had sent him. <br>
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> "Selling candy is the easy part," Jason said. "The hard part is writing
all the <br>
> 'thank you' notes." <br>
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> Jason has a handwriting disorder called dysgraphia and as a result <br>
>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 <br>
Bs. <br>
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> Stuart and Dara Alexander of Tampa, president of the Florida <br>
>chapter of the ALS Association, arranged to meet Jason at Chapman's
house in Orange Park. <br>
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> A spiffed-up Jason, complete with a Mickey Mouse tie tack on his <br>
>new red neck tie, greeted them and presented Stuart with a check for
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>$1,304.81. <br>
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> Stuart's eyes bugged when Jason rattled off the total. <br>
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> "That is very impressive," Stuart said. <br>
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> Later, Jason's eyes bugged when Alexander asked if he wanted to <br>
>speak to lawmakers in Washington, D.C., this spring during ALS advocacy
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>day. <br>
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> "I think Jason would do a great job and be a compelling witness <br>
>for our cause," Alexander said. "It's amazing how legislators respond
to <br>
>children." <br>
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> Jason, who has never been to Washington, said he'd love to go.<br>
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> Chapman, who may go to Washington, too, depending on his <br>
>condition, told the ALS officials that he's been overwhelmed by Jason's
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>initiative. <br>
> "He has totally blown me over," Chapman said. <br>
> <br>
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