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Thu, Apr 15, 2010 7:45 AM
Just a friendly remined that today is the last day to sign up for the Gift of Life's Dash for Organ Donor Awareness at a registration fee of $25. You can still sign up after today but the registration fee will be $30.

Please consider joining our team or help us by making a donation in memory of Ally. A link to the Dash site and any additional information can be found on the homepage of this site.

Thank you all and have a wonderful day!
Jill

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Mon, Mar 29, 2010 9:25 PM
Just wanted to give you all a quick reminder about the upcoming Dash for Organ Donor Awareness! This years walk will take place on Sunday April 18th starting at the Philadelphia Art Museum steps. All additional info can be found on the Gift of Life's website at www.donors1.org or you can click on the link to the walk that is listed on the homepage of this site.

If you are planning to sign up and have not done so yet, please do so and then email your shirt sizes to us so that we can make sure you receive a special Angels for Ally team shirt! Please email shirt sizes to Shane at shaneheintz@yahoo.com (youth and adult sizes available). To gurantee that you receive a shirt please email your sizes by April 1st 2010. We will not be ordering many extra shirts this year so to gurantee you receive a shirt please make sure you email your order!!!

Thanks again for the support you all have given to our team this year and for helping us to carry on the legacy of our Angel Ally!

Jill

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Tue, Mar 16, 2010 7:31 AM

The Angels for Ally team is in need of your help!!! We are way behind and would love to continue the legacy of being one of the largest teams in the GIFT OF LIFE WALK for this year.

Any amount that you can contribute is welcomed. Even if its a dollar!!!

Don't delay, as we need time to fulfill our shirt order. Send your sizes to shaneheintz@yahoo.com

We would love to make this year our biggest year ever for number of Angels for Ally walkers/runners, as well as the amount of funds contributed to the Gift of Life!

2008 was a year that brought great sadness to our family. 2009 was a year of healing. 2010 is a year to honor Ally and all her smiles by taking one day out of our lives to help so many others in need of an organ donation!

Please help us continue our tradition of building a strong supportive team made of friends and family that can impact so many lives within our region!

Ally's story is just one of the hundreds that proved organ and tissue donation saved lives in 2009. Gift of Life Donor Program, the organ procurement organization for eastern Pennsylvania, southern New Jersey and Delaware, has diligently worked with area health care providers and families for more than three decades to facilitate donation and promote it as a life-saving means, and last year proved to be one of the most successful years.

In 2009, the gifts of hundreds of generous organ donors helped the Gift of Life coordinate thousands of life-saving transplants over the course of the year. This was able to take place because of those donors and their family members who looked past their own tragedies and chose to save or enhance someone's life, like Ally and many others.

Last year, Gift of Life also coordinated bone recoveries, skin donations and cornea donations, among countless other tissue recoveries that will greatly improve the life of thousands of tissue recipients. While not as readily publicized as organ donation, these gifts are no less miraculous. Transplanted bone can help rebuild a damaged limb and save it from amputation. Donated corneas can restore sight, and burn victimscan receive donated skin to help them heal.

Today I'm asking you to think about the impact you could have by donating a few dollars or better yet, joining Ally's Angels April 18th in Philadelphia, PA.

Registration is $25.

SIgn up links are on Allys homepage as well.

Join the team:
http://dash.kintera.org/faf/search/searchTeamPart.asp?ievent=338645&lis=0&kntae338645=871CBA6AA04B43E1A3A4CC3EBD088DDF&team=3649710

As a group we can work together in the hopes that one day all patients who are in need of transplant receive their second chance at life.

Thanks for your time and consideration at saving more
lives in 2010. Shane, Jill, Ashley, & Ally

The walk again is:
Sunday, April 18, 2010
Philadelphia Museum of Art

All online donations and information can be found on the link off of the homepage of this site!!!!

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Carol Yeager: I hope that this event goes well for you and as much as I would like to contribute and attend I am so very sorry but I cannot do .Times are really hard for us here beings that My husband is getting S.S. only and as rough as the economy is we just get by with his income.I apologize and I wish you all the best

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Fri, Feb 19, 2010 9:55 AM
Hi all, I just wanted to give you a quick reminder about the upcoming Angels for Ally benefit we have going on next weekend. All proceeds from this event will benefit a local family, whose daughter Olivia, is suffering from a rare medical condition, craniopharyngioma.

Event info:

All You Can Eat Beef and Beer
Saturday February 27th, 2010
Keystone Fire House, Boyertown,PA
6 to 11 p.m. (doors open at 5:45)
Entertainment by DJ Bruce Miller
Tickets are $25 per person

Tickets can be purchased at Bause's Super Drug Store or you can call or email me and I will get the tickets to you in time for this event. For tickets or info call 484-942-8831 or email jbheintz@yahoo.com.

We will also be having a Chinese Auction and we have numerous door prizes to raffle off too! If you would still like to donate an item for the auction please contact me at 484-942-8831. If you would like to show additonal love and suppport for Ally, feel free to wear her favorite color...Red!

Also just to clear up any info that you might have read in the Boyertown Times, this event is something that Shane and myself are both working on together. The Times kind of made it sound like this was something I was planning myself. Shane and I both feel it is important to carry on Ally's legacy and to try and help as many families as we can! We both want to make this a great event and help Olivia and her family, like so many people had helped ours.

Hope to see you all there!
Jill

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Carol Yeager: I hope all goes well for you and your family at this event,although we wont be able to attend we do send our good wishes and hope that all have a great time and the funds that will be raised will help that special someone that deserves it.As Allways ,Ally will allways be in our thoughts and our hearts.

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Wed, Feb 3, 2010 7:37 PM
It's that time again!!! The Gift of Life Walk is here!

We would love to make this year our biggest year ever for number of Angels for Ally walkers/runners, as well as the amount of funds contributed to the Gift of Life!

2008 was a year that brought great sadness to our family. 2009 was a year of healing. 2010 is a year to honor Ally and all her smiles by taking one day out of our lives to help so many others in need of an organ donation!

Please help us continue our tradition of building a strong supportive team made of friends and family that can impact so many lives within our region!

Ally's story is just one of the hundreds that proved organ and tissue donation saved lives in 2009. Gift of Life Donor Program, the organ procurement organization for eastern Pennsylvania, southern New Jersey and Delaware, has diligently worked with area health care providers and families for more than three decades to facilitate donation and promote it as a life-saving means, and last year proved to be one of the most successful years.

In 2009, the gifts of hundreds of generous organ donors helped the Gift of Life coordinate thousands of life-saving transplants over the course of the year. This was able to take place because of those donors and their family members who looked past their own tragedies and chose to save or enhance someone's life, like Ally and many others.

Last year, Gift of Life also coordinated bone recoveries, skin donations and cornea donations, among countless other tissue recoveries that will greatly improve the life of thousands of tissue recipients. While not as readily publicized as organ donation, these gifts are no less miraculous. Transplanted bone can help rebuild a damaged limb and save it from amputation. Donated corneas can restore sight, and burn victimscan receive donated skin to help them heal.

Today I'm asking you to think about the impact you could have by donating a few dollars or better yet, joining Ally's Angels April 18th in Philadelphia, PA.

Registration is $25.

SIgn up links are on Allys homepage as well.

Join the team:
http://dash.kintera.org/faf/search/searchTeamPart.asp?ievent=338645&lis=0&kntae338645=871CBA6AA04B43E1A3A4CC3EBD088DDF&team=3649710

As a group we can work together in the hopes that one day all patients who are in need of transplant receive their second chance at life.

Thanks for your time and consideration at saving more
lives in 2010. Shane, Jill, Ashley, & Ally

The walk again is:
Sunday, April 18, 2010
Philadelphia Museum of Art

All online donations and information can be found on the link off of the homepage of this site!!!!

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Tue, Jan 19, 2010 11:56 PM
We wanted to let you all know that Angels for Ally will be hosting another Beef and Beer Benefit! This year's event will help to support a local family and help them to provide the best care for their daughter Olivia while she battles a rare condition, Craniopharyngioma.

Shane, Ashley and I had a chance to meet with Olivia and her family last night. What a sweet little girl! Not to mention she has a younger sister named "Ali" who loves the color red, so she did a pretty good job at winning us over too! Olivia is in first grade at Gilbertsville Elementary, where her favorite subject is art. She also told us that she loves to read "Junie B. Jones" books and that she is a huge Taylor Swift fan! Miley Cyrus's song "The Climb" also gave her a lot of inspiration while overcoming some of her most recent health hurdles.

Olivia's condition has caused her to battle brain tumors two times in her short seven years of life. The first one was operated on and was removed along with the removal of her pituitary gland. Unfortunately, at that time Olivia also lost vision in her one eye. After the surgery to remove the tumor, Olivia had to remain in the hospital for a little over four months to recover. Olivia's second tumor was detected on an MRI in the Spring of 2009. Operating again was not an option because the doctors said her body would not be able to handle another aggressive brain surgery. Instead Olivia underwent radiation treatments for 31 days to shrink the tumor.

Currently Olivia is considered to be tumor free! However, her most recent MRI does show a cyst that is very close to her optic nerve and therefore she is at risk for losing vision in her other eye. Olivia is also required to take numerous medications on a daily basis including steroids and human growth hormones. Many of her meds she will stay on for the rest of her life.

Angels for Ally would like to help Olivia and her family by easing some of the financial burdens that have been caused by Olivia's illness. Please consider joining us at this event or making a donation to help Olivia. Past beef and beer events that have been held in support of Ally and in memory of Ally, have always sold out...and we hope to do the same this year!

I am listing some more information for the event below. Thanks in advance for your support of another great event in memory of Ally.

Jill

Beef and Beer
Keystone Fire House Boyertown, PA
Saturday, February 27th, 2010
6 to 11 p.m.
with DJ, Bruce Miller
Tickets are $25
to order tickets call 484-942-8831
or email jbheintz@yahoo.com

If you have a business that would like to donate an item or gift certificate that we could raffle or auction off at the event, please call or email the contact info listed above. If you would like to make a donation, please write "Olivia" on the memo line of your check and make payable to:
The Angel Ally Memorial Fund
C/O: Shane Heintz
2500 Deep Creek Rd.
Perkiomenville, PA 18074

Thanks again for your support!

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Wed, Dec 23, 2009 9:22 PM
Hi everyone, just wanted to wish you all a Merry Christmas. I many ways Christmas seems harder this year. I remember Ally in every decoration I put out, in every song I hear and in every Christmas movie I watch (especially the ones that Ally used to make us watch over and over in the hospital)! I think it is just the realization that every Christmas will be without her. Maybe last year the reality of that hadn't truly sunk in yet.

Anyhow we are doing our best and will try to make the most of the day for Ashley. She's hoping Santa brings her the Playmobil Hospital and a DSI so we will see!!!

I hope you all enjoy the day and have a very Merry Christmas.

Jill

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unibrower: Merry Christmas we all hope you have a wonderful day. Our Ally is with us always she's an angel watching over us all. Take care.

AUNT DONNA: HI JILL, HOPE YOU & ASHLEY HAVE A WONDERFUL CHRISTMAS:))
LOVE, AUNT DONNA& NANA

Carol Yeager: I send my Good wishes to you and your family,I do know what it is like also to lose a loved one and especially what it feels like on the holidays and the whole year through.I think that the holidays are allways the hardest to get through after you lose a loved one.Allways remember there are alot of people out there that will be thinking of you and you must know that there are also other people out there that lost loved ones that they didnt get as many years as you had with Ally.I ams ure that she is watchinr you from up above and wanting to send you some sign that you will know that she is thinking of you also.Try and be happy for her and know that she is all well and in no more suffering. GOD BLESS and Have a MERRY CHRISTMAS.

Joely: I love you Jill. Have a good Christmas and know that the spirit of Ally is still alive and well in all our hearts this Christmas.

Jenny Clark: Merry Christmas to you....it must seem hard without Ally...I'm sure Ashley misses her, too. It's nice you still have each other...and Ally will always be with you...in all those decorations, songs, movies....she will never leave your heart and memory.

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Fri, Nov 6, 2009 9:01 AM
Please say some extra prayers today for the Owens family. Karen Owens posted on Gavin's website early this morning that "Gavin was in his final moments". Even though the Owens have known this day was coming, there is no way that they could be prepared for the pain they will have to endure of living everyday without their little boy.

Later today Gavin will probably be at peace. Please pray that somehow Karen and Adam can find peace too. Also extra prayers are needed for Gavin's big sister Madi. She will be six in just a few short months and has endured more emotional roller coaster rides than anyone should have to.

Karen's post yesterday broke my heart...she asked for more time. When we lose someone we love so much, there has never been enough time. We could never be prepared to let them go. Everyday we all take time for granted, we take the people we love for granted. We never really know when time will be up.

I am not trying to be morbid, I am just stating the truth. We really have no control over time. So the next time you think, "maybe I should take that once in a lifetime trip"...do it. The next time you think, "I should tell my kids how proud I am of them"...do it. The next time you think, "I should work less and enjoy life more"...do it. The next time you think, "I love you"...say it.

Any moment could be someone's last moment. Do you want to spend your time regretting the things that you didn't take the time to do or say. Do you want to waste your energy being mad or upset with someone you love. "Life is short" is such a cliche but, it is so true. Once someone you love is gone from your life you will wish for the chance to say or do these things a thousand times over but, you will never get time back the time to do them.

Pleae remember prayers for the Owens.
Jill

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Debi: Thanks for the reminder Jill, so true, there is never enough time. Life is short and we are all guilty of not living everyday to the fullest or saying and/or doing all we could/should for others. Thank you.

Carol Yeager: I am so very sorry to hear about Gavin and my heart goes out to them at their time of such hearaches and emotional pain, there are just so many things to say that I know seem to be so small but really they do come from thr bottom of my heart and also I wish that all pain and suffering could just be erased from the earth so all of us could just be happy for all the days of our lives that we have left.Again all my heartfelt emotions go out to Gavin and his family and also to you and yours also.

Jan: Amen, Jill.

holly: that's so sad.it's awful to know what they're going to be going through and no one can do anything about it.that's an awful place to be ,between a sense of peace and anguish.i'll be thinking of the Owens family and sweet little Gavin.

Sheila: Thanks for the reminder Jill, its always needed. I've been following the Owens blog for some time and will continue to pray. For you, Ashley & Ally too.

SHANE: You and I both know today and everyday after this day, life will be difficult for both Adam and Karen. I'm sure our baby girl is already to welcome her new friend through those beautiful gates of heaven. I know Ally will take care of Gavin and great him with a big beaming smile!

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Wed, Oct 21, 2009 8:46 PM
So sorry for the delay in updating but I wanted to thank everyone who came out to Ally's breakfast! Despite the weather it was a beautiful morning with a video of Ally playing, reminding us all what a special angel she was and how precious life really is.

A special thank you to all of the volunteers at this event!!! Also thank you to the Boyertown Relay for Life team, the J-Walkers, who are usually busy cooking up a cure but this time they were just cooking up a fantastic breakfast! A huge thanks also goes out to Jim and Diane Davidheiser for organizing the majority of this event. Finally thanks to my Mom and Dad for all the hard work they did to help make sure this event was a success and for always being my biggest supporters!

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Donna: just stopped by to tell you I was thinking of you and praying for you.

Donna/Angel_wings

Carol Yeager: I was glad to hear that things went well and I also seen a clipping about it. THANKS AGAIN FOR KEEPING ME UP TO DATE.

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Thu, Oct 15, 2009 10:10 PM
Just a quick update to remind everyone to come out Saturday morning to honor Ally's memory and support a great cause!

Ally's Breakfast
Saturday Oct. 17th 2009
St. John's Lutheran Church
Boyertown, PA
Time: 7 to 11a.m.

All-u-can eat!!!
Take out is also available
Adults $7
Seniors and Under age 12 $5

All Breakfast Proceeds benefit the Gift of Life Family House, Philadelphia.

Also a quick note to anyone volunteering for the event, if you have not heard from me about the time you are scheduled to work please give me a call 484-942-8831. If you are donating bake goods for the bake sale table they can be dropped off at the church Friday night between 5 and 8 p.m. or brought to the breakfast Saturday morning.

Thanks again to everyone for your help and support. Especially all the support this past week.

Jill

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Debi: Another great breakfast for Ally......hope it was a huge success!

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