We reached our goal....and passed it right by! $6645!!!!!

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We did it! Thanks to all of you we were able to reach our goal and pass it right by. What a day. Yes, we reached $6645 for our beloved buddy, Christian, and had a hell of a good time doing it.

THANKS to all of you who donated your time, effort, money and well wishes for this great cause. To Jessica Dwyer for spreading the word to her downtown connections and to the countless businesses who donated without hesitation, we thank you. To all our patrons who participated in the raffle and silent auction... thank you, thank you, thank you! To all our musician friends who answered the call... thanks so much for lending a hand.

A very special thanks to Tara, Bridget, and Angie for all your help with the raffle and silent auction. To our good friend, Jon Borel, for helping Nicole behind the bar and to Shannon for the great logo and branding of this event.

Thanks to Bob and Mark from the Old Northeast Tavern and Michael Cessare from Bowled Restaurant who continue to help us with fantastic food, gift certificates and support for all of our benefits and fundraisers. "The food was awesome guys... thank you so much"!

There are certainly many others to thank, and we do really want to thank you for helping us reach our goal for Christian. He's a very special fella as I'm sure you already know. He's become a very close friend of mine and to have a chance to help him has been a blessing. Please keep Christian and Cassey in your prayers over the next few weeks as they go through this incredible... "miracle". They still need our support and there's no better way then by just praying together. Come catch up with him this Tuesday night and wish him well before he heads to the Mayo Clinic in MN this Thursday.

We love you Christian... now do what you gotta do and get back here safe and sound!

All for now... Cheers! john

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