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We Donated $500 cash to Pedaling For Pennies!

October 6, 2015

We are so proud and so excited to be a part of Jim Rienstra’s Pedaling For Pennies fundraising and awareness for The Randy Shaver Cancer Fund. Jim has been riding his bike all over the world raising awareness for pancreatic cancer in honor of his father. We have been supporting Jim with our Penny Links and have sold and donated over 1000 Links to date. We plan to keep on going as long as Jim plans to do what he’s doing, which is just amazing. We cannot urge you enough to look into what Jim has been doing for all of us, with just his Bike and a huuuugggggeeeeee heart!. Link Up today with a Penny Link and become part of the chain of connection. CHECK OUTwww.pedalingforpennies.org

….sometimes you just need a little help from your friends, and other times you make new friends during a very difficult time. This is what happened to our family when our son, Brett Banasiewicz, suffered a traumatic brain injury on his BMX bike on August 23, 2011. Dustin Grice is one of Brett’s BMX buddies that reached out to us about the Link Foundation. Jeff Troldahl, founder of the Link Foundation, and Dustin Grice designed a “Maddog” bracelet with Brett’s signature colors pink and green. The Link Foundation sold many bracelets via the internet and also allowed us to sell the bracelets at Brett’s BMX Skate Park. The proceeds went to Brett’s mounting medical bills. Brett was able to obtain the best care in the United States that also included hyperbarics. Brett had to relocate to Texas because the state of Indiana is not licensed to administer hyperbarics for TBI’s..

Lisa Banasiewicz, Brett B's Mom Kitchen Skatepark