Charities Galleries

10-18-2009 Race For The Cure :

10-18-2009 Race For The Cure

07-09-09 Piney Branch Golf Club's Wounded Warrior Project :

07-09-09 Piney Branch Golf Club's Wounded Warrior Project

Updated: Jul 12, 2009 8:15am PST

2009 RIDE ACROSS MARYLAND :

2009 RIDE ACROSS MARYLAND

Updated: Jun 05, 2009 9:07pm PST

Ride Across Maryland 2006 :

Ride Across Maryland 2006

Updated: Apr 11, 2009 8:49am PST

01-24-2009 Polar Bear Plunge : The MSP Polar Bear Plunge benefits Special Olympics Maryland and the 10,000 children and adults with intellectual disabilities who experience the life-changing benefits of participating in the organization's year-round training and competition programs — all at no cost to themselves or their families. To date, $2.5 million has been raised for this wonderful charitable event! In this gallery you will share in my vision of this day when humanity comes together to show it's commitment to this amazing cause. Enjoy! Peace & Blessings, Stuart Dahne

01-24-2009 Polar Bear Plunge

The MSP Polar Bear Plunge benefits Special Olympics Maryland and the 1 ...

Updated: Jan 28, 2009 10:37pm PST

2008 SURVIVORS : A MESSAGE FROM KOMEN MARYLAND: WHAT A CELEBRATION! THANK YOU ALL!!! YOU CAN STILL MAKE A GENERAL RACE DONATION MAIL RACE PLEDGES TO: Komen Maryland Race for the Cure PO Box 1333 Hagerstown, MD 21741-1333. 32,000 participants walked, jogged and ran to help Save Lives and End Breast Cancer Forever We expect to raise $2.6 million! We know why we raised as much as we did: Our 2008 Race Sponsors, Volunteers, Donors and Participants! Top Fundraisers 1. Julie Wilcox 2. Terri Buser 3. Maria Hardy 4. Ruby Comer 5. Lisa Carroll Team Rank 1. Team Wasson 2. American Radiology Services 3. McDonogh School 4. Contractors For The Cure 5. Thompson Creek We would again like to recognize Baltimore County government which fielded a staggering 23 teams, with a grand total of more than 350 people, who raised close to $40,000. We salute you all!

2008 SURVIVORS

A MESSAGE FROM KOMEN MARYLAND: WHAT A CELEBRATION! THANK YOU ALL!!! ...

Updated: Dec 02, 2008 6:51am PST

10-18-08 HABITAT FOR HUMANITY BENEFIT :

10-18-08 HABITAT FOR HUMANITY BENEFIT

Updated: Oct 22, 2008 6:26pm PST

10-19-08 RACE FOR THE CURE : A MESSAGE FROM KOMEN MARYLAND: WHAT A CELEBRATION! THANK YOU ALL!!! YOU CAN STILL MAKE A GENERAL RACE DONATION MAIL RACE PLEDGES TO: Komen Maryland Race for the Cure PO Box 1333 Hagerstown, MD 21741-1333. 32,000 participants walked, jogged and ran to help Save Lives and End Breast Cancer Forever We expect to raise $2.6 million! We know why we raised as much as we did: Our 2008 Race Sponsors, Volunteers, Donors and Participants! Top Fundraisers 1. Julie Wilcox 2. Terri Buser 3. Maria Hardy 4. Ruby Comer 5. Lisa Carroll Team Rank 1. Team Wasson 2. American Radiology Services 3. McDonogh School 4. Contractors For The Cure 5. Thompson Creek We would again like to recognize Baltimore County government which fielded a staggering 23 teams, with a grand total of more than 350 people, who raised close to $40,000. We salute you all!

10-19-08 RACE FOR THE CURE

A MESSAGE FROM KOMEN MARYLAND: WHAT A CELEBRATION! THANK YOU ALL!!! ...

Updated: Oct 18, 2009 3:32pm PST

Ride Across Maryland 2008 V.I.P. Luncheon :

Ride Across Maryland 2008 V.I.P. Luncheon

Updated: Sep 17, 2008 5:29am PST

09-11-08 Komen Race For The Cure Reception : Well, the Race for the Cure is right around the corner, 10-19-2008, and I am honored to begin the documentation of this years amazing charitable event. The goal for this year is $4 million, Please take time to sign my guestbook and all images sold off of my site between now and the race I will personally donate 25% of the profits to the Komen Foundation! Thanks for your time and kindness! Peace & Blessings, Stuart Dahne

09-11-08 Komen Race For The Cure Reception

Well, the Race for the Cure is right around the corner, 10-19-2008, an ...

Updated: Sep 12, 2008 8:04am PST

Oil City, Pa. Wounded Warrior Project 08-22-08 Weekend : Until that day a year ago when Capt. Erick M. Foster came to see him, Army Spc. Bobby LaMarche hadn't heard of a commanding officer visiting one of his wounded soldiers in the States while on leave from Iraq. "I looked up and there's my CO," said LaMarche, 21, who was in the middle of a physical therapy session in a Chicago hospital. "I said, 'Holy (cow), sir, what are you doing here?' " Foster died a month later, on Aug. 28, in Muqdadiyah, Iraq, when the enemy attacked his unit with small-arms fire, said Staff Sgt. Jim Wilt, a spokesman for the 82nd Airborne Division. Foster, a paratrooper from Franklin Park and a Duquesne University graduate, was 29. On Friday, friends and family in Oil City, the home of Foster's maternal grandparents, plan to honor him with a two-hour, "Olympic-proportion" musical fireworks show. Speeches begin at 5:30 p.m., and the fireworks begin at dusk. "We wanted to do something special for him," said Robert Kellner, Foster's uncle and owner of Kellner's Fireworks Inc. in Butler County. Kellner coordinated the event and recruited five fireworks exhibitors from five states to conduct a 20-minute show each -- free of charge. Little Big Shots Ltd., a fireworks display and manufacturing company in Somerset County plans to donate about 1,200 pounds of fireworks to the exhibition, said Albert Knoblach, the company's president. Knoblach remembers Foster when he was a kid working at his uncle's fireworks operation. "It's special to be able to do this for someone you know," Knoblach said. All money collected by the event will go to the Wounded Warrior Project, a nonprofit group based in Jacksonville, Fla., that seeks to assist and empower troops wounded in Iraq and Afghanistan. Lee James, a consultant with Raymond James Securities in Oil City who is overseeing the finances of the fireworks show, predicted the event would raise a minimum of $100,000. "If this event raises $100,000, they will be among an elite group of other fundraisers done to benefit the Wounded Warrior Project," said Ayla Hay, an organization spokeswoman. After visiting LaMarche, Foster talked about how impressed he was with the help provided by the group, Kellner said. "We thought it'd be a unique way to help out the Wounded Warrior Project," Kellner said. LaMarche, who lives in Escanaba, Mich., said people from the Wounded Warrior Project visited him more than once a week during the months he was hospitalized. They helped him with paperwork, donated money and invited him to events. "They brought me on the Purple Heart cruise that happens every year in Chicago," said LaMarche, who will speak about his former captain a few hours before the first fireworks explode. "They made sure I stayed connected with people." Foster's surprise appearance motivated LaMarche to work harder in his rehab sessions, LaMarche said. Doctors initially told him he wouldn't walk again after suffering a gunshot wound to the neck when his unit was ambushed during a mission June 15, 2007, in southeast Baghdad, LaMarche said. But he can walk with a cane, and his mobility continues to improve, LaMarche said. "Every time I didn't want to keep going, every time I didn't want to keep doing it, I would just say, 'This is for you, Capt. Foster,' " LaMarche said, his voice breaking. "I still can't believe he came to see me. Even after he was killed, he inspired me to keep pushing." Foster's Chicago trip demonstrated the type of leader he was, said retired Army Col. Victor Bowser, 61, an Oil City resident and veteran of the conflicts in Vietnam, Panama and the Gulf. "Erick took that extra step," said Bowser, who will speak at the event. "It shows he loved his soldiers. You feel a personal obligation for those under your command." Foster joined the Army in May 2000, after graduating from Duquesne and earning a commission as a second lieutenant through ROTC. He completed a tour of duty in Iraq in 2004-05. Foster was killed during his second tour, which began in November 2006. His awards and commendations include the Bronze Star and the Purple Heart, Staff Sgt. Wilt said. Foster is buried in Oil City's Grove Hill Cemetery next to his maternal grandfather, Robert S. Kellner, a World War II veteran who served in the Navy. "This is a great way to honor him and remember him, especially so close to his one-year anniversary," said Robert Foster, 61, of Franklin Park, Foster's father and an admissions officer for the online South University. Beth Werkheiser, 27, Foster's sister who lives in St. Louis, said she is not surprised her uncle chose to pay tribute to her brother with a fireworks show. "He is not wasting his pain," said Werkheiser, who is helping found a Presbyterian church in St. Louis. "That's something we talked about as a family: Let's not waste the pain. Let's see as much good in it as you can see." By Mike Cronin TRIBUNE-REVIEW Tuesday, August 19, 2008

Oil City, Pa. Wounded Warrior Project 08-22-08 Weekend

Until that day a year ago when Capt. Erick M. Foster came to see him, ...

Updated: Aug 26, 2008 5:24am PST

RIDE ACROSS MARYLAND 2008 : Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has. Margaret Mead (1901 - 1978)

RIDE ACROSS MARYLAND 2008

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can c ...

Updated: Dec 24, 2008 7:19am PST

10-14-07 The Race for the Cure : Well I had the honor of being able to document this years "Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure". It was an amazing experience that started before sun-up with people getting ready and then gradually progressed through every emotion until the end! When people pull together for a cause it is truly amazing! Thanks for allowing me to serve and share! Peace & Blessings, Stuart

10-14-07 The Race for the Cure

Ride Across Maryland 2007 V.I.P. Luncheon :

Ride Across Maryland 2007 V.I.P. Luncheon

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Updated: Dec 24, 2008 7:26am PST

RIDE ACROSS MARYLAND 2007 :

RIDE ACROSS MARYLAND 2007