There was 1, then 2.: March 2015

I feel pretty great to say I work with these amazing teachers and most amazing kids. Today was one of the kick-off events to the Susquehanna Township’s SD annual THON “FTK” Four Diamond’s 12-hour fundraiser. Yesterday, we had two assemblies welcoming Coach Pantalone to our auditorium where he spoke on the heartbreak of losing his son to a very rare form of cancer, yet his ‘courage’ and ‘strength’ and dynamics impressed us all. When he spoke on his son’s adamant nature of declaring how he had lived a life, that “he was good,” we all teared up.

We are each and every day impressed with how Ashley LOVESTHON Otstott goes on, achieves awards, raises money, receives Distinguished Honors as a junior in High School, and yet still knows there is something in her, a form of a most terrible disease that has been in her body for almost her entire life. Her parents and sister are heroes themselves knowing what their child and sister go through and doing all they can but not what they absolutely want to; get rid of the disease that plagues their daughter.

We as a student body, faculty and staff, were told that another one of our own, one of our own Indian tribe, has been diagnosed with a form of sarcoma that has changed his, his family, and all our lives forever. This young man is a senior at our high school, an amazing runner and swimmer, plays in the marching band, and is on his way to college. He should have ran today, yet instead he is at Penn State Hershey Medical Center having begun treatment towards his illness. A most terrible disease that has suddenly slammed him in the face like a door and become real to him.

I’ll be cutting my hair off at our annual event this April, perhaps Ashley will cut it off. It’s little, but something. If you can donate towards this amazing annual event at my school to help kids with cancer, please follow the link below.

http://fourdiamonds.donordrive.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=donorDrive.participant&participantID=28084

Enjoy the photos!