Reaching out…

A couple of stories. There is a kid that has been involved with Young Life all year, he is a freshman at Port Townsend High School. He is really funny and we connect through that. His dad has been living with cancer for the last 12 years.  When you figure that a freshman in High [...]

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It is with great sadness that I write this email. My friend Andy Palmer died fighting a forest fire in Northern California, getting hit by a falling tree.   http://www.nationalparkstraveler.com/2008/07/rookie-firefighter-olympic-national-park-killed-falling-tree-california   Andy is one first students that I met when I got to town. I wrote the following about Andy days after this event took [...]

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Friends,   It is with a sad heart, that I send out this email, our friend, and Young Life committee member, Bill McKinley passed away on Thursday night, after a long struggle with cancer. I spoke with his wife Maelyn on Friday, and she shared that his family was there with him when he passed [...]

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I have been dreading the writing of this email. This last Friday, a student at Port Townsend High School, died pretty suddenly. He was in the library at lunch when, basically he had a heart attack. The paramedics arrived and were able to revive him. He was airlifted to Seattle where there was hope that [...]

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