From: Justin Farren
Subject: Please take 2 seconds to read, from Justin. =)
Date: June 2, 2004 10:41:49 AM EDT
Hi,
I'm writing this to all the people in my contact
list, and if you know me well, you know I never,
EVER ask for anything like this. It is something
very personal for me, and important beyond the
words that I am using to explain.
Two years ago, my friend Jeff Peterson died from
lymphoma. He, like me, was a professional
wrestler who dreamed of getting a shot around the
world, and of course, with the WWF (wwe). At age
19, Jeff told me that he had gotten pneumonia and
needed to take some time off from wrestling and
visit a doctor. When he did, he was diagnosed
with cancer.
It was hard to watch my friend die, and at such a
young age. When I moved to New York, he was there
for me to make sure I got help getting work
wrestling in Delaware and Maryland and even New
Jersey. When I wasn't booked to wrestle, I would
visit Jeff at his uncle's promotions (ECWA in
Delaware) and he always picked up my spirits,
when I thought that was my job, for him.
Now that he's gone, for the past few years we
have ran a charity donation tournament weekend,
bringing in the top independent, and WWE talent
to raise money for a cancer cause and they have
been very anonymous, until this year.
There is a little girl whose family can't afford
to pay for her chemotherapy and we are trying to
raise money to pay for her outstanding bills, so
that she can continue to get the help she needs
to stay alive.
Here is a letter from our charity fund, Cops and
Kids, manager Sgt. Jeffrey P. Young...please take
a few seconds to read this....
To: Whom it May Concern
The Tarpon Springs Police Departments Cops & Kids
program has partnered with the National Wrestling
Association of Florida (NWA) for the NWA?s 2nd
annual Jeff Peterson Memorial Cup wrestling
tournament in memory of Jeff Peterson who died of
lymphoma. The NWA will be donating portions of
its proceeds to the Cops & Kids program in memory
of Jeff, and Chief Mark G. LeCouris of the Tarpon
Springs Police Department will be donating this
money to the family of Bailee Dunnigan. Bailee
and her family reside in Tarpon Springs, and her
father Mike is a fellow Law Enforcement officer
with the Florida Fish & Wildlife Conservation
Commission.
Bailee was diagnosed with Leukemia ALL in March
2001; while she was in remission for nearly a
year this terrible disease has once again
appeared. Bailee is currently battling this
disease, undergoing an intense chemotherapy
regiment and will be having a bone marrow
transplant in the near future as well.
The family is now facing financial concerns due
to the additional hospital stays, large medical
bills, lost wages and are in-need of our help. We
are asking that you or your company buy blocks of
tickets or provide us with donations or any other
items, which we could sell or auction at the
wrestling tournament to help raise additional
funds which would all be turned over to Bailee
and her family to offset these expenses. No
donation is to small and everything done to help
in this matter is appreciated.
You can make donations and purchase tickets
online at Petersoncup.com as well as
NWAFlorida.com or can send donations to:
Jeff Peterson Memorial Cup
4532 W Kennedy Blvd #432
Tampa, FL 33609-2539
Thank you for your help, and concern with this
matter.
Sincerely,
Sgt. Jeffrey P. Young
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Now, I've never done anything like this before,
and when they sent us her pictures and sent the
company (NWA) some drawings she did it about
broke my heart. If Chloe ever had something like
this happen I would die.
I am trying to put together as much as possible
through this charity, and if you have a few
dollars in paypal, I would be FOREVER grateful if
you could donate even 2 or 3 dollars..Not asking
for the moon, just whatever you'd spend on
starbucks or a donut or whatever, anything.
Thanks for reading through this.. I know we all
get alot of stupid spam, and this was all written
from the heart and is not a cut and paste deal.
I attached the link to the paypal page, all you
have to do is click it and enter the amount. If
you don't have paypal, the address to mail in
something is above. Anyways, thanks again, and if
anyone ever needs something of this nature, I
would be glad to help out and pass along the
word.
http://www.nwaflorida.com/peterson/tickets.html
The Donate button is on the right with the visa
and mastercard logos.... Just 2 bucks is fine, if
you can spare more, it is 100% going to the
girl's family.
Thanks!
Justin