The Franklin community in the past has been always willing to stand together with a family facing extremely difficult times. A couple of names come to my mind right away, with the Papenfuss family and the Molitor family both very grateful of what their neighbors gave to them in support their children going through difficult medical situations.
Well, today the Neitman family could certainly use your help.
A friend of mine passed along information early last night to all the bloggers and several aldermen. Kudos to Franklin Public School Board Member Janet Evans for already posting this information on her FranklinNOW.com blog. If you are a Facebook fan of Franklin Today or on my personal e-mail list, you already are aware of this as well.
The Neitmans have a son in the 1st grade at Ben Franklin Elementary School who is having a rather rough time medically. The family was just informed that Logan will need brain surgery and a bone fusion due to three different types of brain abnormalities. With only one parent working, they'll be having a difficult time with the medical expenses, and could use some assistance from us to overcome this. You can read more on Logan's story by clicking this link.
Thanks to Logan's caring grandfather, Robert Fredrickson, and other family members, a benefit has been set-up in order to raise money to help cover his medical needs. It will be held at the Root River Center, 7220 W Rawson Ave, on Valentine's Day starting at 1pm.
Donation tickets for this event are $25.00 each or Buffet/Bowling and $15.00 each for Buffet Only. All who plan to bowl must confirm by February 7th, 2010 to ensure you have a lane. Please confirm to Robert Fredrickson at 414-732-1691 as we will need to confirm food as well as a bowling list.
Furthermore, a silent auction and a raffle table will be featured at this benefit.
Please help support this Franklin family by joining them at this event.
If you, your company, or anyone you may know has any items that they
are able to donate to us, any gift certificates/cards, or a gift basket
of your company product. All donations big and small are greatly
excepted, as we would be honored for you to help us out.
Please contact Robert at 414-732-1691 with any questions. Any monetary gifts can be donated at any Wells Fargo bank.
