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GODSMACK, CREED, Others Help Send Supply Plane To Haiti

GODSMACK, CREED and RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE guitarist Tom Morello are some of the music luminaries who have partnered with multi-media company DC3 Music Group to raise enough money to pack an MD-80 airplane with supplies and medical personnel and send it to Haiti. According to a press release, the plane is scheduled to leave from Long Beach, California on Wednesday (January 27) and bring 10,000 pounds of medical supplies, along with doctors and medical staff, to the city of Port-au-Prince, which was devastated by a massive earthquake two weeks ago.

Other artists involved in the effort, which raised over $1 million, include NEW KIDS ON THE BLOCK, JULIANNE HOUGH, EVE and DAVID ARCHULETA.

The fund-raising effort is expected to continue and send more planeloads of supplies and personnel to the ravaged country.

CREED singer Scott Stapp is already in Haiti and is awaiting the plane to help unload supplies.

GODSMACK frontman Sully Erna said in a statement, “Since I can’t be there to help in person, I want to make my contribution as a fellow human being to give what I can while I’m in the fortunate situation that I am to help those that are so unfortunate in this time of tragedy.”

Charities involved in the effort include the Wheelchair Foundation and MedShare, with other companies and non-profits also participating.

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Dancing for the Stars to benefit the Wheelchair Foundation

Local celebrities will be paired with dance instructors to raise money for charity in the Colleyville Rotary Club’s “Dancing for the Stars.”

The event from 7 to 11 p.m. on Feb. 6 will take place at the Colleyville Center, 5301 Riverwalk Drive in Colleyville, Texas. Money raised will benefit the Grapevine-Colleyville Education Foundation, End Polio Now, the Wheelchair Foundation and other charities supported by the club.

The event is similar in concept to the ABC television program Dancing with the Stars, in which a celebrity is paired with a professional dancer. The dancing pair is judged on their performance.

But in Dancing for the Stars, people are asked to “vote” for their favorite celebrity dancer with a monetary contribution. The dancer who gets the most contributions is the champion.

Dancers include: Elixir Salon and Daymaker owner Danielle Arnett, a former go-go dancer; GCISD Deputy Superintendent Jim Chadwell; Colleyville City Manager Jennifer Fadden; GCEF Board member Sue Franks; former Miss Texas Carly Gil; former Texas Rangers baseball player Jose Guzman; Colleyville Chamber of Commerce chairman and Crown of Life Lutheran Church pastor David Jung; former Dallas Cowboys cheerleader Chelsea Keifer; Colleyville Mayor David Kelly; meteorologist Rebecca Miller; and musician and recording artist Danny Wright.

The masters of ceremonies will be Miss Texas 2008-2009 Rebecca Robinson and Colleyville Police Officer Raymon Cannon.

It is expected that State Rep. Vicki Truitt (R-Keller) will make a guest appearance and may even sing a song.

The dance instructors will include Rocco Tiberi, Vince Duhon, Kylie Frandsen, Christian Dupuy, Dana McLeod and Tammi Conner.

“The real winners are the charities and causes we support,” the club said on its Web site.

Food will be provided by Red Barn Bar-B-Que, McAlister’sDeli, Bellisimo Italian Restaurant, Celebrity Cafe & Bakery, Market Street and Costa Vida.

Tickets to the show are $50 each, which includes food and dancing afterwards.

For more information, and to vote, see www.colleyvillerotaryclub.com and click “Dancing for the Stars.”

SOURCE: Grapevine Courier

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Wheelchairs To Help Chinese Locals See Expo

THE Wheelchair Foundation will donate 2,010 wheelchairs to local neighborhoods to help the disabled visit the 2010 World Expo, officials yesterday.

Anyone who needs a wheelchair can borrow one from the neighborhood committee for free during the Expo, the global charity said.

The project aimed to allow more disabled people and seniors to have the same opportunity as everybody else to see the Expo, officials said.

Also yesterday, city Mayor Han Zheng met Kenneth E. Behring, the foundation`s founder and chairman, and expressed his appreciation for the foundation`s long-term contribution to the city`s disabled people.

The foundation has donated more than 260,000 wheelchairs to the city.

Last year Behring was made an honorary citizen of Shanghai, the highest title awarded by the municipality to foreigners who make an outstanding contribution to the city`s development.

SOURCE: Meet In Shanghai

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A Blog Prayer from Kim Simplis-Barrow, First Lady of Belize

“Lord, I just want to say thank you because this morning, I woke up and knew where my children were. This morning my home was still standing. This morning I am not crying because my husband, my child, my brother or sister needs to be rescued from a pile of concrete; because this morning I was able to drink a glass of water, because this morning I was able to turn on the light, because this morning I was able to take a shower, because this morning I was not planning a funeral, but most of all I thank you this morning because I still have life and a voice to cry out for the people of Haiti. We here are truly blessed!!!!!” This is a prayer from Kim Simplis-Barrow, the first lady of Belize.

I can still feel the rough grip on my skin of the gray-haired woman in tears who stretched up from her wheelchair and grabbed my arm.

“Bless you, boy!” she wept. “You’ve given me freedom for the first time in my life!”

It was a wheelchair that had set her free, although I had always thought of my mother’s as a prison. In this moment, however, I came to appreciate how a wheelchair could mean mobility to people who had never had it before.  When the first lady of Belize saw this interaction, she walked over to greet us. She had come to a ceremony where the Wheelchair Foundation was presenting 280 chairs to the needy in her nation.

But this week all attention turned to the holocaust in Haiti. We’re sending 600 wheelchairs and as many more as we can with your help–just click on the link: https://rep.iqj.mybluehost.me.

SOURCE: Leader Power Tools

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Long Time Volunteer Kate Moran-Shulman Passes

Kate Moran-Shulman June 20, 1953 – Jan. 14, 2010 Resident of Alamo Beloved mother of David, Daniel, and Raymond Shulman; lifelong partner of husband Andy Shulman; devoted sister of Mary, Pat, Maureen, Linda and Dolly. Loving daughter of William and Catherine Moran. Kate touched the lives of everyone she encountered. She shined brightly with her artistic talent for music, singing, photography, cooking, jewelry making, gardening and a contagious zest for life that she shared with the family whom she loved and with her friends. She was a cherished member of the Red Hat Ladies Society as well a long-time volunteer at the Wheelchair Foundation with whom she traveled the globe circulating wheelchairs to those in great need. She will be missed by all and remembered always. Family and friends are invited to attend a viewing on Tuesday night, January 19th from 5-8pm followed by funeral services on Wednesday, January 20th at 2pm; both at Oakmont Mortuary, 2099 Reliez Valley Road, Lafayette, CA; to be followed by a memorial service at Scott’s Restaurant, 1333 North California Blvd., Walnut Creek, CA-(925) 934-0598 from 4 until 7pm.

SOURCE: Contra Costa Times

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