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<div>From the bottom of our family's hearts we want to THANK EVERYONE for helping our family in one of the most tragic moments of our life's. With your love, prayers and offerings,  we will be able to Bring our girl home to her final resting place close to her family. Also we will be able to bless her  4 beautiful children. We also will be able to take the next steps in helping Tasia and our family recive justice and answers. God will take care of this and thank you for allowing God to use you to bless our family to be able to take this mess and turn it into a message. We will stand strong together in our ups and are downs. Once again  thank you!
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<div><strong>I’m cycling 300 miles in May 2026 to help support the American Cancer Society (ACS).</strong>
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Cycle 300 Miles in May 2026 for the American Cancer Society

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<div>Hi, my name is Jennifer. I'm starting a GoFundMe to help my dear cousin Lezlie and her family. Her husband Bill is fighting for his life, and they are in great need of prayer and .
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<div>This is Bill, a devoted husband, loving father of 6 - a provider, jokester, companion. Thank you for reading his story. Yes, it is long. Yes, it is worth the read.
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<div>When Bill reconnected with his high school sweetheart, he instantly fell in love with the two little ladies that were part of the package deal. In 2007, he joined the US Army National Guard as a way to support his new, ready-made family. He trained as a medic and Bradley mechanic and quickly realized that military life was the life for him. Bill was excited to serve his country and wanted a better opportunity to provide for his growing family, so he began taking steps to enlist in the US Army.
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<div>Unfortunately, during this transitional time, in 2010, he was diagnosed with testicular cancer, bringing all his plans to a halt.
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<div>24 hours after emergency surgery to remove a tumor, his daughter was born with a rare chromosomal anomaly - Edwards Syndrome. She died three days later. While mourning the loss of his daughter, Tilde, Bill continued to fight for his life. After months of chemotherapy, prayer, and support from friends, family, and Vanderbilt doctors, he beat cancer at the age of 29.
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<div>Over the next several years, he worked hard to provide for his family. By 2019, he was a father of six, and his family was complete. During this time, he worked in power line and right-of-way construction, road construction, and eventually solar energy installation. By 2021, he was a successful operator with a Nashville-based company, and his family had grown leaps and bounds beyond what doctors thought possible. Once again, he beat the odds.
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<div>Then, in summer 2022, he was diagnosed with end-stage liver disease brought on by an undetected fungal infection, histoplasmosis, which led to cirrhosis. After only 3 days on the national transplant waiting list, Bill was blessed with a new liver in October 2022. This was nothing short of a miracle as the average wait time is 8 months to 2 years.
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<div>Leading up to his transplant and during the recovery period after, Bill was without a job, and the responsibility of providing fell solely on his wife, Lezlie. During this time, he was still being treated by the transplant team at Vanderbilt. His short time in the National Guard did not provide him with VA benefits. Over the course of his recovery, money became increasingly tight, and Bill &amp; Lezlie depleted their savings. Family and close friends aware of their situation supported them with time, small monetary donations, and most importantly, prayer.
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<div>In the summer of 2024, Bill felt as though he had recovered enough to go back to work to help support his family. Because his change in health left him unable to return to his previous line of work, he became a school bus driver for the Fentress County school system. He also took a second, full-time job as a transportation specialist with a KY-based company. Around the time of his re-entry to the workforce, Bill lost the TennCare coverage he had acquired during his transplant and subsequent treatment. He still relies daily on expensive life-saving anti-rejection medication.
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<div>Sometime in late September 2024, Bill began experiencing some discomfort in the front of his left hip area. He suspected a pulled groin muscle, but after some rest and at-home treatment, his symptoms did not improve. By the end of his family’s fall break visit to Dollywood, he was walking with a pronounced limp and experiencing pain except when completely at rest. The situation was complicated by a lack of insurance and primary care provider.
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<div>By Thanksgiving, Bill was relying on his set of hiking sticks to walk. The pain was constant, but he was determined to push through in order to continue to contribute financially to his family’s needs. Neither of his jobs offered health insurance, so he reapplied for TennCare.
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<div>At Christmas, Bill’s pain was becoming unbearable and had moved into his upper back. He had lost most of the mobility in his left leg and was no longer able to ignore the constant pain that increased with every move. During the month of December, Bill lost a significant amount of weight but was determined to keep up with both jobs until the early morning of January 16 when he felt a pop in his left hip accompanied by indescribable pain.
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<div>On January 17, his wife took him to the Vanderbilt emergency room where he was admitted to Vanderbilt Hospital, without insurance, as he had been denied TennCare coverage again a few days earlier.
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<div>Bill is completely immobile due to a tumor on the top of his left femur and femoral fractures. He also has a tumor in his heart, multiple lesions on his spine and throughout his body, as well as fractures in his spine. At the time of this article, he has been at Vanderbilt for 4 days. He has a major operation scheduled for Wednesday, Jan 22 to replace his hip and part of his femur.
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<div>Multiple teams of doctors are working diligently to develop a treatment plan, but due to his history of cancer and his recent transplant and required medication, his treatment plan is complex, and this diagnosis may be terminal.
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<div>The doctors say that Bill has advanced cancer, but they are still working to determine the type in order to know the chances it can be cured.
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<div>Time and time again, God has helped Bill and his family overcome the pains of this worldly life. Bill has been a dedicated camera operator for his church’s weekly Facebook live broadcast to help make sure others are able to hear about Jesus. Bill and his family KNOW that God can do ALL THINGS because they have seen it time and again. Right now, Bill could use your prayers. <strong>He and his family would also be blessed by any donations and other support to overcome this diagnosis and to ensure his family feels no further burden of his medical care. He has a long road ahead.</strong>
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<div><strong>Donations will be used to pay for medical bills, transportation, childcare during his extended hospital stay &amp; treatments, or for after-life accommodations.</strong> Diagnostic imaging and reports will be shared as they are made available to me.
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Bill's Battle: Cancer and No Insurance

<div>Hi, this fundraiser is for my friend Brenda who I have known for almost twenty years. She is a career educator and a single mother of three.  She is thoughtful, generous, and a constant caregiver for her family, friends, and students. She is always giving her time and talents to help support her loved ones and her community. She is one of those people who always sees the silver lining in life’s good and bad moments, but unfortunately right now is a hard phase for her and her family.
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<div>Recently, her family experienced a significant life event that caused trauma and so many changes to their lives. She has gone above and beyond to ensure her son has the care he needs but she also needs some care. Her family therapist recommends that she attend a week-long specialized trauma treatment so that she can continue to be a strong caregiver for her family.
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<div>The treatment costs $6,900, not including travel costs, which is beyond her financial capability.
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<div><strong>Please donate what you can to lift up my friend the way she has lifted up so many around her. It is time for us to all help Brenda get the care she needs now.  </strong>
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Support Brenda in getting treatment for trauma

Steve Gulley has a long time career in bluegrass music.  From his days as a featured act and then musical director at the long running Renfro Valley Barn Dance, to a career touring with Doyle Lawson And Quicksilver, Mountain Heart and Grasstowne (which he was a founding member of Mountain Heart and then Grasstowne) then The Dale Ann Bradley Band, before founding and fronting his current band, Steve Gulley And New Pinnacle.  Steve is well liked and well known by everyone in the bluegrass community as being one of the very best male vocalists in the business.  When other musicians fell on hard times, Steve was always one of the first to help out....many times driving all night to donate his time and fuel. One of the most caring guys in the business, and always the first in line to help anyone who needed it....Now, the situation has flipped, and Steve and his wife Debbie really need our help. Steve has fell on serious illness in the past few days that appears to be abdominal cancer. Steve is starting into the cancer program here in Knoxville, TN at The University Of Tennessee Cancer Center.  We are not sure what lays ahead, but one thing we are sure of is that the bills do not stop coming. Steve and Debbie both need your help at this time. God knows that Steve has done /gave so much to so many who needed him.  It's time we help them during this difficult time.  Usually we could do fund raising concerts, but due to The Covid19, we can't do that at this time. That's why I am asking everyone to help out if you can. Even if it's just $1, it goes to help them get through this  difficult time so they don't have to worry about money, and can put all their attention on getting well.  Please help if you can.  I know if the shoe was on the other foot, Steve would be right there to help you....He is just that kinda guy.  God Bless each and every one of you for helping and for keeping them in your prayers !!

Helping Our Music Friend Steve Gulley

<img src="https://d2g8igdw686xgo.cloudfront.net/34685082_1547271792233694_r.jpeg" alt="34685082_1547271792233694_r.jpeg" width="100%" media_type="3" /><br />An investigation of Los Angeles’s hybrid landscapes<br /><strong>Ivy Pochoda &amp; Adam Davies</strong><br />January 2019<br /><br />SYNOPSIS:<br /><strong>Freewaybloom</strong> is a transmedia collaboration between photographer Adam Davies and novelist Ivy Pochoda that will explore and celebrate the improbable compatibility between Los Angeles’s natural and man-made worlds in a series of large format photographs and accompanying essays. In an era of devastating drought, fires, and mudslides, <strong>Freewaybloom</strong> will also ask a question: how should Los Angeles listen to its landscape? <br /><br /><img src="https://d2g8igdw686xgo.cloudfront.net/34685082_1546279443540418_r.jpeg" alt="34685082_1546279443540418_r.jpeg" width="100%" media_type="3" /><br />INTRODUCTION:<br />Something spectacular happens each Spring in Los Angeles—a remarkable bloom of desert flowers in the most unexpected places, the on-ramps and berms of the 10 Freeway. This explosion of colors, textures, and shapes bordering the city’s asphalt and concrete corridor reminds us that the land is not finished with us, nor we with it. In the most unlikely place nature shocks us into companionship.<br /><br />Though the 10 Freeway is a transcontinental roadway, <strong>Freewaybloom</strong> will focus on the section which originates at the California / Arizona border and ends at the Pacific Ocean. “The 10” cuts straight through Los Angeles, linking a disparate group of neighborhoods—the quickly gentrifying streets of downtown, the Central American enclave of Pico-Union, the African-American communities of West Adams and Crenshaw as well as tonier places, Culver City, Beverlywood, and Santa Monica. In many ways, The 10 is synonymous with Los Angeles itself, fast-paced but also stagnant, sprawling, and diverse. It links the city, yet most people pass through it without noticing the ecology. <br /><br /><img src="https://d2g8igdw686xgo.cloudfront.net/34685082_1543619004115885_r.jpeg" alt="34685082_1543619004115885_r.jpeg" width="100%" media_type="3" /><strong><br /></strong>WHO WE ARE:<br /><strong>Adam</strong> is a large format film photographer interested in architecture and public spaces. He uses these subjects to pose questions about place, identity, materiality, and history. He has long been fascinated by the issue of human engagement with the natural and built environment. This subject, how we experience our surroundings and, in turn, how we affect them, is of critical importance to his work. By representing the possibilities of a ‘hybrid landscape’ – in which buildings and the surrounding environment are fused – his photographs offer a different perspective on architecture, one that downplays a heroic conquest of nature and looks instead for modes of coexistence with it.<br /><br /><strong>Ivy</strong> is a novelist and journalist. Her work makes the invisible among us visible, the unheard heard, and charts the permeable borders between neighborhoods, especially those threatened by gentrification. Finding dignity, beauty, and joy in Los Angeles’s Skid Row she made both it and the 10 Freeway focal points for her 2018 novel Wonder Valley which received the Strand Magazine Award for best novel and was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize.<strong><br /><br /></strong><img src="https://d2g8igdw686xgo.cloudfront.net/34685082_1546280771602592_r.jpeg" alt="34685082_1546280771602592_r.jpeg" width="100%" media_type="3" /><br />BACKGROUND:<br />Ivy became interested in the flowers blooming along the freeway when she moved to Los Angeles nine years ago. A native New Yorker, she approached her new city and its freeways with an observer’s curiosity. Her interest grew during the spectacular Superbloom of 2017—a wildflower explosion that was visible from space. <br /><br />Ivy met Adam at the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center where she immediately recognized that his large format photographs exploring the fusion of the natural and the built environment would be the perfect vehicle to celebrate the freeway wildflowers. <br /><br /><img src="https://d2g8igdw686xgo.cloudfront.net/34685082_1546281109118837_r.jpeg" alt="34685082_1546281109118837_r.jpeg" width="100%" media_type="3" /><br />OUR GOALS:<br />For several reasons Freewaybloom is a time-sensitive project. While wildflowers are present year-round in Los Angeles, the majority of the bloom happens for three to four weeks in the mid to late spring. That gives Adam a small window of time in to photograph the project. In addition, the extent of the yearly bloom is dependent on the previous winter’s rainfall, and with drought conditions growing more and more common, Adam and Ivy feel it is crucial to capture this spectacular event as soon as possible.<br /><br />OUR BUDGET:<br />Adam's Travel (airfare, hotel, car rental, per diem for one month in Los Angeles): $6900.<br />Ivy's Travel (mileage and per diem for 10 days of research in Los Angeles): $600.<br />Materials and Services (film, processing, scanning, proof printing, prose printing): $8350.<br /><br /><strong>Total funding goal: $15850.</strong><br /><br />The funds for this project will cover Adam Davies’s travel to Los Angeles from Baltimore (room and board), for one month as well as the film and production needed to make his extremely large format photographs (printed size 56 x 70 inches). Our goal is for Adam to produce a series of 25 images to be paired with Ivy’s writing—a collection of linked essays. We are currently working towards an exhibition in conjunction with a book. Any leftover funds will go towards Adam’s costs related to the printing of his photographs.<br /><br /><img src="https://d2g8igdw686xgo.cloudfront.net/34685082_1546282402495160_r.jpeg" alt="34685082_1546282402495160_r.jpeg" width="100%" media_type="3" /><br />BIOGRAPHIES AND WEBSITES:<br /><strong>Ivy Pochoda</strong> is the author of the critically acclaimed novels Wonder Valley and Visitation Street. Wonder Valley won The Strand Magazine Critics Award for Best Novel and was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and the Southern California Independent Booksellers Award, as well as the Grand Prix de Littérature Américaine in France. Visitation Street received the Page America Prize in France and was chosen as an Amazon Best Book of 2013 and a Barnes &amp; Noble Discover Great New Writers selection. Ivy’s writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Los Angeles Times, The Los Angeles Review of Books, and Vogue. Her first novel The Art of Disappearing, was published by St. Martin’s Press in 2009. For many years she was a world ranked squash player. She teaches creative writing at Studio 526 in Skid Row. Ivy grew up in Brooklyn, NY and currently lives in West Adams, Los Angeles. <br /><a href="http://www.ivypochoda.com">www.ivypochoda.com</a><br />Interview with Ivy: <a href="https://www.npr.org/2017/11/10/563041832/in-wonder-valley-theres-more-than-one-los-angeles">NPR Morning Edition: In 'Wonder Valley,' There's More Than One Los Angeles</a> <br /><br />Born in the United Kingdom, <strong>Adam Davies</strong> studied painting before switching to large-format photography in the late 2000s. Adam Davies received an EdM from Harvard University and an MFA from Carnegie Mellon University. He is a recipient of grants from the Vira Heinz Endowment, the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, and the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, and has attended residencies at the Chinati Foundation, the Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown and Yaddo. In 2015, Davies was honored as Outstanding Emerging Artist at the DC Mayor’s Arts Awards and was the recipient of the Clarence John Laughlin Award. He is an artist-in-residence at Creative Alliance in Baltimore where his recent exhibition featured collaborations with Los Angeles-based musician Alex Zhang Hungtai and Baltimore-based percussionist Adam Rosenblatt. He is currently working with two award-winning authors: Joan Wickersham on a project based upon the 17th-century Swedish shipwreck ‘Vasa’ and Ivy Pochoda on an exploration of the annual wildflower bloom that borders the highways in downtown Los Angeles. In March 2019 he will present his graffiti project, ’Reroutings,’ at the Mid-Atlantic TED Talk in Washington, DC. <br /><a href="http://www.adamdavies.net">www.adamdavies.net </a><br />Interview with Adam:<br /><iframe media_type="2" media_id="248339564" class="youtube-replace" src="https://player.vimeo.com/video/248339564" width="560" height="315" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen style="margin-bottom:20px"></iframe>

FreewayBloom: Los Angeles's Hybrid Landscapes

<img src="https://d2g8igdw686xgo.cloudfront.net/34956618_1543530192801168_r.jpeg" width="100%" media_type="3" alt="34956618_1543530192801168_r.jpeg" /><br />Brandon McKenzie was a member of CitySquash, a Bronx based youth development program. He was known for his bright, energetic smile, his love of squash, and for being a trusted friend and teammate. He joined the program in 2009 as a third grader, and along with his three siblings, was a valued member of our program and community into his high school years.<br /><br />During the summer of 2017, it was discovered that Brandon had cancer. Surgery removed a tumor from his spine, but he lost most of his mobility. For the past 15 months, Brandon fought valiantly,  and was able to still attend school part time. An avid sports fan, he found joy in following the NBA and other leagues, even though he was so cruelly robbed of his ability to run and play. His cancer eventually returned and Brandon passed away on November, 28th, 2018. <br /><br /><img src="https://d2g8igdw686xgo.cloudfront.net/34956618_1543530742427990_r.jpeg" width="100%" media_type="3" alt="34956618_1543530742427990_r.jpeg" /><br /><br />We are setting up a GoFundMe to assist the McKenzie family with the costs associated with Brandon's medical care and funeral. Please feel free to share with friends and family.<br /><br />He is survived by his Mother, Renoir, and his step dad Javon; his sisters Jocelyn, Tyla, Brielle, Valerie, and Shavon.<br /><br />Rest in peace, Brandon. Though your time here was too brief, your impact will live on in the family, friends, and teammates who were fortunate to know you.<br /><br />Love,<br />Your CitySquash Family<br /><br /><img src="https://d2g8igdw686xgo.cloudfront.net/34956618_1543530724116896_r.jpeg" width="100%" media_type="3" alt="34956618_1543530724116896_r.jpeg" />

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