ONE GAME ONE CAUSE ONE COMMUNITY

ONE CAUSE ONE GAME ONE COMMUNITY 

Thunder rolls in black….Streaks strike in white but for these few nights

Woodstock UNITES TO FIGHT in GRAY!

  In March of 2010 a family of the Woodstock community lost their child, Hope Fuller, to a disease called DIPG.  In memory of Hope and in support of the Fuller family, both Woodstock High School and Woodstock North High School are coming together during this basketball season to raise awareness and funds for research for this childhood cancer.  DIPG (Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma) is a disease which strikes at the heart of childhood and it is a disease in desperate need of a cure.  This disease affects the pons (middle) portion of the brainstem, rendering the nervous system function impossible.  The only known treatment is radiation because it is of the most resistant of all cancers to chemotherapy treatments; it affects primarily children (whose treatment has historically lead to innovations in many other forms of cancer), and with a “dismal” prognosis, alternatives are few!!!!  Put together these obstacles offer researchers a chance to revolutionize cancer research and prevention.  It is even suggested that a cure to DIPG might result in a cure for almost every other types of cancer.     For this reason….

The Cure Starts Now strives to generate the resources necessary for doctors to study DIPG and implement the findings in hope of curing DIPG, and hopefully all cancers.








Purchase T-shirts for $15.00 to show your support. Wear them to the 7 o'clock p.m. game on January 21st, 2012 at Woodstock North High School. 

For more information please contact

Chris Learman @ 815-245-6944 or chrislearman@att.net

OR

Rebecca Einspahr @ reinspahr@att.net

twenty-twelve

Last night my friends and I rung in the New Year. It was a great time and, yet, so odd to reflect on what happen in twenty-eleven. 

In one years time I graduated high school, started college, finished two semesters of college, bought a car, and started working non-stop. 

It's been an amazing year, packed full of so many accomplished and happenings. I can't imagine what is next in life. I pray and hope the good relationships I have now last forever and I continue to fulfill God's will.