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16 Nov, 2009

Special Thanks

Posted by: Wes In: News

There were recently 2 fundraisers held for me and I just wanted to give a special thanks and some detail to those involved.  Unfortunately during both of these events I was hospitalized and was not able to attend or be active in the involvement.  I apologize and want to send out a special thanks to everyone involved in making both events such a great success.

The first fundraiser was a Halloween Party that was held on October 31st at Caboto Club in Windsor.  $2415 was raised in support of the Wes Laporte Foundation and the event was a huge success.  Special thanks goes out to

Ryan Bas, Phila Keo, Marisa Burza and Ricardo Martire

The second fundraiser was a Benefit Dinner that was held at Jovans on Walker road in Windsor.  $2085 was raised in support of the Wes Laporte Foundation and the dinner had a great turnout.  Special thanks goes to

Joey Pazlovski, Chris Mahon, Zhe Zhoa, Yuan Wang, Joey Tam and Hong Zhao

3 Responses to "Special Thanks"

1 | Janis Gagné

November 18th, 2009 at 7:43 pm

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Hi Wes,

These are great reports about how successful these fundraisers have been. Hopefully we can get to the next one.

Thinking about you all the time,

Mme G

2 | cricket byerley

November 19th, 2009 at 1:06 am

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hey wes
this is your cousin cricket and robbie and aunt sandie and uncle kevin are think of you all the time hope it all go well get butter soon ..
love aunt sandie uncle kevin and robbie and cricket
xoxoxoxoxoxoxo

3 | heidi wolff

January 19th, 2010 at 12:53 pm

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i hope you get well soon

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  • Sandy and Don Marino: Wes, So glad you are finally at Bethesda. We are praying for you. Dr. Fata told us you were going and he was so happy that this was finally taking p
  • heidi wolff: i hope you get well soon
  • heidi wolff: wes you are in my prayers every day,i hope you will recover well.my thoughts are with your dad too ,to keep him strong,he is a wonderful dad.....<3

About

Wes Laporte, 18, local to Belle River, ON with family; Brian (father), Maureen (mother) and Brother Matthew have been thrown into a roller coaster of issues. Wes has been diagnosed with the beginnings of Leukemia, without treatment Wes' condition is fatal. Father, Brian works in Alberta as a pipe fitter, however, as Wes' condition has gotten worse has had to take a layoff to take care of his family. Mother, Maureen works on an assembly line to help make ends meet.

The situation for Wes and his family is not good. Wes' only chance is to receive newly-developed treatments in the United States. With no out-of-country insurance, the Laporte family are reaching out to the community to aid funding, and to ultimately save their son's life.