OT - But help needed

Okay so, I'll come up with a way to contribute anonymously, without my name showing on that GoFundMe page. Plus I have a lot of wealthy friends in Gaffney that I am sending this to right now - and the mayor up there, Chicken Jolly, is a close personal friend of mine. I'll see if he will get involved on some level. I know he has to be careful with this kind of stuff but if ever there was a good cause this seems like it ... I'll give him a call this morning.

ETA: So I'm already hearing back from friends who know Ashton and his parents via The Village School. This thing will start rolling now. Texted it to several doctor and attorney friends up there plus I have a call into Chicken ... he'll call me back soon and when he does we'll get the ball really rolling.

Hopefully some more of our fellow Gamecocks will contribute ... this checks out as a really good cause.

Yep ... so, I've had people calling and texting me back all morning. High school sweethearts, construction worker and dental hygienist ... Ashton is precious. Seems like word is spreading.

I'm glad you're doing this. These nice people need our help.

Lungbuster ... I know of several checks headed your friends way today and over the course of the next couple of days. Thank you for giving us a heads-up.

This is a worthy cause.

Got a call from a friend of mine this morning, said he spoke with you yesterday.

You're a good man.

God bless you two for doing this.

They told me about the one received at church and I just kept it silent. And yes, I saw the other on the GFM last night. Either way on the other is fine.

It'll all definitely help financially, but it's helping lift their spirits through all of the support received from the local community thus far. Next week, the high school football and basketball teams are throwing him a birthday party. Later in the week, the guy who dresses up as Batman (came to the funeral of the kid who died from gunshot at the school in Anderson last year, or the year before) is coming down to Comic-Con in Greenville on the 24th and he's invited Ashton to come hang out with him there. He'll also go to his school the following Monday and take him for a ride around town in the Batmobile.

For all the negativity in the world, it is reassuring to see that there is good in people's hearts still. So many people are reaching out to the family and I can tell you, they are grateful and humbled by it all. Thank you again for what you've done!