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Posted By: Rhys

As a very longtime forum member who just barely read this thread, I would like to suggest a very worthwhile, and COMPLETELY neutral Charity idea for at least some serious consideration.

The High School in my hometown of Middleton Idaho was completely destroyed by fire last week. It made the National news for a day or so, but the scene is horrible and looks like the aftermath of 911. There are over 600 high school students with no books, no musical instruments, no teachers files, no gym equipment, nothing. They are now seperating up the kids to go to different churches and charity organizations while the town figures out something to do. People all over our community (15 miles from Boise Idaho) are trying to put together dinners and yardsales to help the kids out, but the need is extremely pressing to get these kids books and the basics to get back to normal. The band and orchestra for the school had all their instruments destroyed and most of the parents can not afford to buy new ones, and the school can not pay for it.

I am sure we could make a very significant difference to in a real way rather than donating money to a mega-charity where the money will be used well, but the results never seen. I would be willing to bet anything that the school would honor the donation in a way that would bring some positive attention to the forum and the hobby to people who may have never heard of it before.

If this is something you guys are not interested in supporting for a charity idea, I will respect that. But I cant think of anything more neutral in ideology than a public school in absolutely desperate need of charity.

Rhys Yeakley