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leg warmers are in effect... Oct 1, 2009
If Snowboarders Are Giving Back You Should Too (Thu, 11 Sep 2008 Posted at 03:00:00 PM)
Hannah Teter--Not afraid to Donate all her money to a good cause Here's the deal, last week I was kind of complaining about how everyone is complaining all the time and it made me realize the irony of the situation and that old saying that if you think everybody's crazy maybe it's you or something like that. So here's my new thing...talking about what's awesome instead of what's not.....(we'll see how long that lasts). So here's something pretty awesome, Hannah Teter is donating her money, time and efforts to a cause outside her own personal gain. Not only has she created Hannah's Gold Maple Syrup which gives all proceeds to sponsor a village in Kenya she is also donating all of her prize money until she raises the $150,000 it takes to build a new sanitary water pump for the villagers. Anyway, it kinda got me thinking about how we all live a pretty charmed life, you know food, water, computers and high speed internet and all that and we should find ways to spread the wealth and give back. Not a new idea I know but Hannah's got me all inspired and slightly mystified as to why it is that we as snowboarders have not collectively joined forced to do some good, or at least I am spacing the good will we are spreading as a community on this stormy Thursday afternoon. I'm open to ideas and suggestions and like Ralph Waldo Emerson said " It is one of the beautiful compensations of this life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself" so let's all help each other help ourselves, ya know we are the world and sh*t. Help Hannah Help Her Village and enjoy tasty Vermont maple syrup in the process. *more complaints in next weeks installment I promise...
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