A letter from Marcy MacDonald
Dear friends,

The following is the letter I sent out to all my non-computer friends and family through the post. I'm trying something new this year, with an "emailing" to you and I'm interested in the cyber response we get.

Feel free to forward this letter to anyone you may know who may be interested in my quest and helping out with a donation. You may use the internet or print this letter out and send your donation directly to St. Vincent's Medical Center Foundation.

This year has been exciting and sad. My open water training partner, Dave Parcells, suddenly passed away while racing down in Tampa Bay Florida. We both had planned open water attempts overseas. Dave was planning an attempt for a double loop around the island of Jersey, and I am attempting a triple crossing back in the English Channel. Dave had been recently diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis and he immediately arranged with the St. Vincent’s Medical Center Foundation to open a new branch account to help individuals battling this degenerating disease. Liz Fry, another CT channel swimmer who is attempting a double channel crossing, and I had agreed to join Dave, before his death, to raise funds for this account through our individual channel attempts.

Dave was so focused to push his body to the next comfort zone before his disease suddenly took its toll and took him away from us. He and I shared this philosophy and I look forward to my challenge and need YOUR help to carry on his mission. I apologize if this is a duplicate mailing, my address books may have overlapped. If you know anyone who may be interested in sponsoring me, please forward them this letter, we can make this happen.

On July 16th, my crew, of Janet Galya and Margaret Peterson and I will be traveling back to Dover, England. After a 3 year hiatus, I have prepared to the best of my ability and I am ready for my chance to make some history. My team is ready and we are all focused for the 30plus hour challenge.

St. Vincent’s organizes the Swim Across the Sound and are excited to follow Liz and me on our adventures. Log into the website, www.swimacrossthesound.org, to follow our progress and learn more about this great organization. We have a Hartford Chapter now and we are always looking for volunteers and sponsors for events. If you or a loved one needs support or guidance with the battle of Cancer or MS, check with your friends at the Foundation, they may be able to help.

Dates to remember: July 20 - 29th

Website to donate:

http://www.active.com/donate/sas2007/marcysdestiny

Online donation team: Marcy’s Destiny in the Channel

We've noticed you are not directly forwarded to my fundraising website. They told me it would bring you directly to my page, BUT it brings you to the Swim Across the Sound website, don't fret, go over to the upper right side of the page and click Make a donation, that will bring you to the next page,

Click Here to Donate to the swim Online... next page

click Find a Fundraiser ... and scroll down to my name...

MacDonald, DPM, Marcella.... click and it brings you to my page.

OR you can type the address directly into your Address Bar

or send donations directly to the Foundation :

St Vincent's Medical Center Foundation,
2800 Main Street, Bridgeport, CT 06606
(Include your name and address and please make checks out to :"Swim Across the Sound")

As always, thank you for your time, support and interest.

Marcy MacDonald

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