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Help Susan Raise Her Funding for Herceptin
This lovely, vibrant, gentle woman is Max's friend. Her name is Susan Marshall, and she has HER2+ breast cancer. Susan needs to raise FIFTY NINE THOUSAND DOLLARS!!!!!!!!! for her Herceptin treatment, which she needs sooner rather than later. If anyone out there would like to help Susan raise the funds for her treatment, to help save her life, cheques made payable to
"Grace Herceptin Account"
can be sent c/- Herceptin Riders at P.O. Box 1016 Nelson.
Alternatively, you can pay the money directly into the account across ANZ bank counters or online to Account Number
01 0822-0098705-000
Please contact the Organiser of the Herceptin Peaceful Protest Ride via this weblink for further information, or to request a receipt for your donation. Receipts will automatically be sent out to anyone who includes their address with a mailed donation.
Don't worry if you can't manage much, because every single dollar - EVERY SINGLE ONE - will help that scary journey Susan has to face, to get from A, all the way to B.
See below for details of the Ride For Susan!
Update: 25th March 2008. As of today, we have our first thousand dollars for Susan! One down, 58 to go!
Update: 21st April 2008. We're up to $1500. A third of the way to the first treatment. Keep it coming!
Update: 3rd May 2008. $2300. Half way to the first treatment!
Update: 13th May 2008. $7,000. One treatment in the bag, another on the way!
FUNDRAISING: MYSTERY BIKE RIDE FOR SUSAN - MAY 10th 2008!!!
Saturday 10th May 2008
10.00am assembly at Christchurch Cathedral for a 10.30 departure.
Susan needs $59,000 for Herceptin Treatment.
The government won't help her, but maybe you can!
Dress up your machines (think pink, people!) and come for a ride. $5.00 to join and bring some extra for a
Sausage Sizzle, an Auction of bike goodies, and Raffles.
Show up with the biggest pot of donated $$$ and win the mystery prize! Allow 4 hours for this "Foray Into The Great Unknown", with three stops. The event covers about 100km in total.
Maps will be handed out on the day.
Rain or shine! A back-up vehicle will be in attendance, and it doesn't matter if you're an L-Plate rider, an off-roader, or you can't manage the full event. As long as your scooter or bike is road-legal, we'd love to have you along with us for all or part of the fun.
Contact Keith Orchard on (03) 3522922 or Max Cook on (03) 540 2177 for further details, or email through the link on this site.
SEE YOU THERE! IN THE SQUARE!
Dig out your best smiles and polish them up.
Susan's website
Go to www.helpsusan.co.nz to see what's happening with Susan, and how you can help her directly.
The Day Itself
The sun came out, forty bikes showed up, and we set off on time from the Cathedral, after a blessing by Diana Rattray, Associate Dean of the Christchurch Cathedral. Our route took us straight down Colombo Street to the foot of the Cashmere Hills, where we had a re-group in the car park at Princess Margaret Hospital before heading out towards Halswell and then in through Tai Tapu and Gebbies Pass and over to Diamond Harbour, where we all had a coffee, and where some who missed brekkie caught up on some nosh.
From there we rode back along the shoreline to the Wheatsheaf Tavern, where the lovely youngsters Susan works with had the barbecue well under way. The sausage sizzle went well and so did the auction of donated goods, and once that was done and dusted, those of us who were still keen headed off for the Valley in at Heathcote, for a final pint or two before disbanding for the day.
We raised a fantastic $1,850 for Susan, which included the funds from the rider entry fees, sausage sizzle, auction and public donations.
The Herceptin Riders, and of course the lovely Susan, would like to thank all those who supported this event in various ways. It was a good day out, thanks to those whose contributions made it all possible...
Street and Sport, Christchurch
Sport Zone Suzuki, Christchurch
Darbi Accessories, Christchurch
Motor Sport, Blenheim
The Dux De Lux, Christchurch
Absolution Tattoo, Christchurch
Skin Show Tattoo, Christchurch
Westmeat, Nelson and Christchurch
Elizabeth Catering/The Bakers Inn, Nelson
Alan Marshall
Christchurch City Council
Diana Rattray, Associate Dean, Christchurch Cathedral
Marlene and Darren at the WheatSheaf
The Management and staff of Godley House
The Manager of Diamond Harbour Dairy
The Management of Valley Inn, Heathcote, Christchurch
Anne Denton of Expresso Express, Christchurch
Pack n Save, Christchurch
Watties
The People of 198
Ken Spall
Keith Orchard
Alf and Margaret
Lorraine and Olivia
Biggest thanks of all go to Susan for her huge, courageous leap of faith in allowing us to hold this event for her, which has meant going public with her cancer.
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