Some uplifting news for you all! (xpost to COJ)

Hey gang:

I had a really wonderful phone call today from Active.com, and wanted to share the news with all the BTers.

Last month so many BTers came together to run the Hit the Trails XC 5K race in honor of Christine Rusher (Lucy). The race director Steve Dunn, decided to give all proceeds from the race to the Rusher family. Online registration was held through Active.com, so I had a little seed of an idea.

I have a contact at Active.com from my TeamToyota days last year. I emailed her about the race and all, and she passed my email around the company. Today she called me to let me know that Active agreed to my request and will donate their entire proceeds from the race registration to the Rusher family. They will be sending a check for $375.00 to Steve Dunn/FishHawk Road Runners to pass along to the Rushers.

During the course of figuring out where to send the money this afternoon, I had the pleasure to speak with Steve, and he asked me to pass along the news that a check for the rest of the race proceeds (after costs) of $5500.00 will be presented to Tom Rusher this week (or was presented last week, I can't quite get it all straight)

In any case, thanks in large part to the wonderful support of the BT crew, the Rusher family will receive $5875.00 from the race, in addition to any money donated through the Paypal account set up here.

WHAHOOOOOO!

And thanks to FishHawk Road Runners and Active.com for their very generous contributions!

You all should be proud of yourselves!

- Annabanana