{"id":1254,"date":"2009-11-02T02:06:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-02T06:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2009\/11\/02\/sunday-night-friends-of-sam-2\/"},"modified":"2009-11-02T02:06:00","modified_gmt":"2009-11-02T06:06:00","slug":"sunday-night-friends-of-sam-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2009\/11\/02\/sunday-night-friends-of-sam-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday night – Friends of Sam"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Peaceful day today.\u00a0\u00a0 We spent the day trying not <\/i>to eat the candy that Gabe managed to collect last night.\u00a0\u00a0 Exactly 233 pieces…\u00a0\u00a0 fewer by my count today \ud83d\ude42 <\/p>\n


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In the afternoon, Diane and I went to the Haunted Forest to do a little filming of the Pumpkin King. We had to do it today before we lost the gneerator an compressor. Believe it or not, I’m trying to use it to make a rap video about the joys of\u00a0 engineering. It’ll ether by funny or awful.. you’ll get to judge in a week or so… <\/div>\n

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The other acomplishments for the day were ..\u00a0\u00a0 getting a run in with the dogs and diane.. putting up our interior storm windows.. and a project with Jen.\u00a0 <\/p>\n

I spent a couple of hours over at Jen and Tim’s working on the Friends of Sam page<\/a> on Samstones.org<\/a>. Jen’s idea is to collect all of the material that the kids have done with Friends of Sam to help them with their college applications.\u00a0 These kids have done such great community service in Sam’s Honor. I hope it does help them get noticed as they apply.. <\/p>\n

Here’s a list of the stuff off the page… \u00a0 If you’re reading this and your’ve been involved with Friends of Sam.. please check out this list and let Jen know if we’ve left anything out.. or if you have some pictures\u00a0 or documents you’d like us to add in..\u00a0 <\/p>\n

Here’s the material.. so I’ll end here… Have a peaceful novermber folks. It’s a tough\u00a0 month for us.. but we’ll get thruh it.. Nite all.. Nite Sam
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Friends of Sam is a group of kids helping kids. Friends of Sam is<\/p>\n

made up of several of Sam’s good friends. They have been doing fund<\/p>\n

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Here’s an article in the Burlington Free Press that announced the group’s mission and some of the founding members:
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Here’s a list of events that Friends of Sam has held since 2007:<\/b>
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Friends of Sam supports local teens who lost their home to a house fire…..<\/font><\/p>\n

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of Sam sent two Williston teens $200.00 gift certificates to the<\/p>\n

University Mall in order that they could replace some of their clothing<\/p>\n

and belongings that they lost in a house fire.<\/font><\/p>\n

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May 28, 2007 : Friends of Sam supports the Tyler Eklund Fund<\/font><\/p>\n

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Fourteen year old Tyler Eklund broke his C3 vertebrae while snowboarding at a national competition.\u00a0 <\/span>He was paralyzed from the neck down.\u00a0 <\/span>Friends<\/p>\n

of Sam supported the Tyler Eklund fund with a check for $2526.83 with<\/p>\n

the intention that it be used to help his family make his home wheel<\/p>\n

chair accessible. The funds for this donation were raised through the<\/p>\n

sale of T-shirts and Frisbees at a memorial birthday event in honor of<\/p>\n

Sam Cohn.\u00a0 <\/span>Tyler was a participant in the High Cascade camp program as was Sam.<\/font><\/p>\n

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August, 2007 : Friends of Sam supports the Camels Hump Middle School<\/font><\/p>\n

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Friends of Sam purchased and donated new school supplies to the Camels Hump Middle School in Richmond, VT.\u00a0 <\/span>They<\/p>\n

shopped for and delivered $420.00 worth of much needed supplies<\/p>\n

including notebooks, pencils, rulers, gluesticks, paper, etc. with the<\/p>\n

intention that it be made available to kids in need.<\/font><\/p>\n

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November, 2007 : Friends of Sam supports the Burlington Emergency Food Shelf and Local Families in Need:
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of Sam presented an art auction event at Jager Dipaolo and Kemp in<\/p>\n

support of the Burlington Emergency Food Shelf.\u00a0 At this event, Friends<\/p>\n

of Sam provided musical entertainment and refreshments, while visitors<\/p>\n

enjoyed the hand made art donations by the kids, their friends and<\/p>\n

family members.\u00a0 This event, combined with the Chili Cookoff with<\/p>\n

Hettena-Wright and Horton, netted close to 4000.00 in cash and food<\/p>\n

donations for area families and the food shelf:<\/font><\/p>\n

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2008: Friends of Sam supports Abraham Nhail and family with $3000.00,<\/p>\n

that was raised at the Jam for Sam event at Talent Skate Park:<\/font><\/p>\n

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\u00a0Here’s Abraham’s story:
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We’ve just learned that Abraham is close to being reunited with his family<\/font><\/p>\n

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December 2007 & 2008: Friends of Sam supports Jingle Rails:<\/font><\/p>\n

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Rails in an event held at Bolton Valley Ski Resort in support of the<\/p>\n

mission of Friends of Sam. Skiers and Snowboarders competed for<\/p>\n

placement and prizes. <\/b><\/font><\/p>\n


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June 2009:\u00a0 Jam for Sam at Talent Skate Park<\/font><\/p>\n

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of Sam and Talenet Skate park joined together again to raise funds for<\/p>\n

the Kraing Baing Village Project, a non-profit organization whose<\/p>\n

mission is to help the impoverished village of Kraing Baing, Camboidia.<\/p>\n

Friends of Sam raised and donated $700 to the project which was enough<\/p>\n

to support their goal of the installation of two clean water wells. <\/b><\/font><\/p>\n

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Peaceful day today.\u00a0\u00a0 We spent the day trying not to eat the candy that Gabe managed to collect last night.\u00a0\u00a0 Exactly 233 pieces…\u00a0\u00a0 fewer by my count today \ud83d\ude42 In the afternoon, Diane and I went to the Haunted Forest to do a little filming of the Pumpkin King. We had to do it today … Continue reading Sunday night – Friends of Sam<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1254\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}