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Help Monica score big!!

Posted in Girls Basketball, Softball, Volleyball, tagged , , , , , on August 10, 2015| Leave a Comment »

Monica Vidoni hauls in a rebound. (John Fisken photos)

Monica Vidoni hauls in a rebound. (John Fisken photos)

Vidoni with high school teammates (l to r) Julia Myers, Madeline Strasburg and Amanda Fabrizi.

Vidoni with high school teammates (l to r) Julia Myers, Madeline Strasburg and Amanda Fabrizi.

Monica Vidoni has made big strides. Now, we can all help her make the biggest one.

The 2015 Coupeville High School grad, a three-sport athlete (volleyball, basketball, softball) for the Wolves, is planning to head to Minnesota for college.

She wants to attend Rainy River Community College in International Falls, with plans to play all three of her sports.

RRCC is a member of the National Junior College Athletic Association and competes in the Minnesota Community College Conference.

Amy Briscoe has started a GoFundMe account to help Vidoni cover the cost of her plane ticket and is asking for the community’s help.

For all of those who have seen Monica grow and become a more confident young woman and athlete in the past year, this would be an excellent opportunity to help keep her rising for the top.

To find out more and possibly donate, pop over to:

http://www.gofundme.com/ufj5jym5

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Keep the cheer dream alive!!

Posted in Cheer, Fundraisers, tagged , , , , on April 12, 2015| Leave a Comment »

Maddy Neitzel (John Fisken photo)

Maddy Neitzel (John Fisken photos)

Neitzel gets ready to fly.

Neitzel gets ready to fly.

Skip a coffee, help fund the future of Wolf cheer.

Coupeville’s Maddy and Amanda Neitzel have launched a GoFundMe fundraiser in an effort to raise $300 apiece to attend a top-level cheer camp this summer.

Maddy is already an award-winning cheerleader, having earned Most Improved honors after her first season on the football sidelines for CHS this past fall.

To discover more of her tale of becoming a first-time cheerleader, take a look back at a feature story I wrote on her, where she was kind enough to answer my questions and came off as a bright, personable young woman:

https://coupevillesports.com/2014/08/06/maddy-neitzel-is-fired-up/

To find out more about the fundraiser (and hopefully kick in some change to help fuel their dream), pop over to:

http://www.gofundme.com/rqeu68

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Get in good with McKenzie Rice, before she wins the Tony!!

Posted in Drama, tagged , , , , , on February 10, 2015| Leave a Comment »

McKenzie Rice

CHS junior McKenzie Rice

Help her now and maybe she’ll remember you when she’s on Broadway.

McKenzie Rice, a junior at Coupeville High School, is among the best and brightest Wolf Nation has to offer.

One of the leading lights in the CHS drama troupe, she also plays tennis, is a key member of the school’s band and participates in Leo’s Club.

All while beaming a quiet, mega-watt smile everywhere she goes.

Now the talented Rice has a chance to hit the Big Apple and pursue the acting bug.

She has the chance to attend a 21-day Acting Intensive Course where she would stay at Yale.

The program consists of classes in voice, text analysis, scene study, movement, and basic acting technique and is taught by professional actors, vocal coaches and university professors.

While there, she and her classmates would create their own production, while also getting an opportunity to see Broadway shows.

It would be an invaluable life experience for a talented, fast-rising young star in the making, but McKenzie needs some help to be able to go.

Have a few extra bucks in the wallet? Want to help fund a talented, personable young woman? Pop over to:

http://www.gofundme.com/loo5qc

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Cow Town rallies for mother of three!!

Posted in Fundraisers, tagged , , , , , on January 16, 2015| 1 Comment »

Heather Ausman (GoFundMe photo)

Heather Ausman (GoFundMe photo)

“My plan, God willing, is to live long enough to see my children grow up and have families of their own.”

I don’t know Heather Ausman personally, but I do know cancer.

My aunt Loni (who, was in many ways, a fairly ornery lady) had a doctor tell her family that, if they had a priest, they should call him in because she had hours left.

She then sat up and slapped the doctor (or so the legend goes) and fought the ravages of cancer for another 25+ years.

They weren’t always easy years, but, as I said, she was ornery and didn’t go out easily.

Ausman, a Coupeville mother of three young girls, is in her third battle with stage four breast cancer.

I hope that, deep down, she is as ornery as my aunt, and lives to fight on for many years.

We as a community, as a family bound together by our claiming of Cow Town as our residence, can, and should, do everything possible to help her in that fight.

For her, and for her girls.

Ausman has set up a GoFundMe account, and the link to that is below. Anything you can part with will help her family to deal with what are overwhelming medical costs.

Also, two Coupeville businesses — Brett’s Bread and Whidbey Isle Yarns, Gifts and Teas — have issued a challenge to other businesses in town to donate 10% of their Saturday, Jan. 24 sales to help Ausman.

http://www.gofundme.com/OnlyGodKnowsWhen

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“I wish you love and joy in the afterlife, my friend”

Posted in Fundraisers, tagged , , , , , , on December 15, 2014| 1 Comment »

Haley Sherman and Dylan Canell.

Haley Sherman and Dylan Canell.

One of Coupeville’s finest and her family could use our help right now.

Haley Sherman, a really wonderful young woman who graduated from CHS this spring after being a standout volleyball and softball player, lost her much-loved older brother, Dylan Canell, this week.

As the family deals with the sudden tragedy, Dylan’s uncle, Ryan, has put together a GoFundMe fundraising account to try and help the family pay for the sudden funeral expenses.

Whether you knew Dylan personally from his time on Whidbey or not, he, like his sister, was an important part of this town.

One of his teachers at CHS, Ken Stange, reflected on their time together, which was brief, but memorable:

Dylan, you hated school, but you always showed me great respect.

Your reputation preceded you, before you arrived in my 9th grade English class. I admit that I was worried, but your warmth quickly disarmed me.

You had a certain way about you; no matter the person or situation, you could ease the tension and bring smiles into the room, even if it meant you’d be answering to Mr. Black.

You were a wildcard and I liked that about you.

Nobody ever knew what to expect, but everybody knew you’d make them laugh.

You were literally the person who would give someone the shirt off of your back, as referenced by Kenneth Hopkins.

I also remember you as being the only Coupeville kid who would wear a track jacket without a tee shirt underneath. That ’70s look was priceless!

Like too many, you’ve gone far too early. I wish you love and joy in the afterlife, my friend. You’ll be missed.

Peace.

If you can help a little or a lot, or even just pass the word on, please consider doing so.

To find out more, jump to:

http://www.gofundme.com/iwkgh8

The family has also announced there will be a memorial service for Dylan 1 PM Saturday, Dec. 20 at Thomas Family Farms, 9010 Marsh Road in Snohomish. All are welcome.

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