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 Vans/Scion Auction nets $14,504!
Money to buy specialized surfboards
Special thanks Shaun Moody at Vans and Joe Moses with Scion for putting together the auction. $14,504 was raised on eBay, with 100% of the proceeds benefiting Life Rolls On. Life Rolls On will use a portion of the proceeds from this auction to purchase surfboards that are specially designed so they can be used by spinal cord injured riders.
> www.vans.com
> www.scion.com
 They Will Surf Again in October
Next event scheduled for Oct 22nd
Life Rolls On's They Will Surf Again program and Wheels 2 Water have teamed up to put on a huge disabled surfing event next month. Set for October 22nd at Bolsa Chica Tower 21 (in Huntington Beach), this TWSA/W2W event is sure to attract dozens of surfers and volunteers alike.
Life Rolls On will be giving away a "Jesse Billauer" custom Channel Islands surfboard to one lucky attendee. You must pre-register for this event to qualify for the surfboard. Winner will be chosen by drawing, no donation or purchase necessary to win. Winner of the board must be a participating quad/para surfer.
> Sign up today in you are interested
 Surfer Poll Awards
Jesse Billauer presents award
Tuesday September 13th, Jesse Billauer presented an award for best tube ride to Dane Reynolds who nabbed Best Tube Ride for the 8 second tube he emerged from at Macaronis in the movie, Young Guns 2. Before giving the award, event organizers showed a few slides of the tube ride Jesse got in Fiji a few months earlier. Photo: David Pu'u
 Boost Mobile Pro presented by Quiksilver
Expression Session and Surfboard Auction
Sunday September 18th, Boost Mobile Pro at Lower Trestles, San Clemente, CA. What is shaping up to be the best waves in the history of the event, is sure to get even more exciting when Life Rolls On puts on an exhibition on Sunday.
Also ending Sunday, the eBay auction for a Boost/Foster's limited edition Stewart longboard signed by many top professional surfers.
> Check out the auction at www.ebay.com and plug in item #7183299319.
Coming next month, Life Rolls On will auction off a trip for two to Salani Surf Resort in Samoa, courtesy of Charlie Christiansen and Waterways Travel.
 Festival of Children
Entire Month of September
Life Rolls On volunteers are on site at the South Coast Plaza in Costa Mesa (California) distributing information about LRO to the public and signing up volunteers for future events. Come down and say hello.
> www.festivalofchildren.org
 Escondido Cycle Center's Moto Relay Challenge
Team format race to benefit LRO and Chris Ackerman
The Moto Relay Challenge is a way to have fun in the dirt with buddies and help raise funds for the treatment and cure of paralysis caused by spinal cord injuries. Entry fees will benefit Life Rolls On, while silent auction item proceeds will benefit the Chris Ackerman Foundation. October 2nd, 2005 at Cahuilla Creek in Temecula. For more information, contact Natalie at (800) 564-8078.
 Cardiff Library Event
Life Rolls On supports Literary Awareness event
San Diego County Library and National Teen Read Week present an after-school teen program at the Cardiff Library located at 2081 Newcastle Avenue. Jesse Billauer will speak about Life With a spinal cord injury. Program starts at 3:30pm, for more information contact 760-753-4027. Open to the public.
 Casey Martin Awards 2005
Nike received the most applications ever!
November 2nd at Nike headquarters, the 2005 Casey Martin Award winner will be crowned. From what we've heard, there are some amazing people in the running for this year's award. Even those that do not win, are all heroes in our book. 2004 Casey Martin Award winner Jesse Billauer will be on hand to pass on the torch.
 Life Rolls On supports Miami Project event
New York City fundraiser for spinal cord injury research
Life Rolls On founder Jesse Billauer will be headed to New York City on September 27th to support this major event to raise money for spinal cord injury research.
> www.themiamiproject.org
 LRO and Nine Systems Team Up
San Diego supports broadband content distribution
Nine Systems of San Diego has partnered with Life Rolls On for broadband content distribution, including encoding and steaming of LRO projects. This alliance will allow Life Rolls On to release online projects produced by our film/video unit, including a prevention/awareness project we are working on with the Paralysis Resource Center, as well as interviews of other spinal cord injured athletes.
> www.ninesystems.com
Attention donors from recent LRO events
Acknowledgement letters to come at year end
If you attended or contributed to the recent Life Rolls On events in Los Angeles, but have not yet received a confirmation of your in-kind or monetary contribution, thank you for being patient. As we have in the past, we usually send confirmations and thank you letters after the new year so we can properly acknowledge all supporters from the entire year.
If you would like a record of your contribution before then, simply reply to this email and we will forward you a formal letter.
 "Jesse's Story" a big hit at Surf Film Festival
Coming soon to a theater near you (maybe!)
After the successes of "Jesse's Story" at the US Open of Surfing/ Big Red Productions Surf Film Festival, producer/director Mark Jacobs is making progress getting the film into other major film festivals nationwide.
Special thanks to Dave and Leslie Carlos for making this possible, Ben Harper for composing a title song for the film and 3 Ball Productions Troy Searer and John Foy for helping with legal and production.
As an aside, those of you who might have caught the recent premiere of the VH1 reality show, "Breaking Bonaduce," this show is directed by the same Mark Jacobs. Congrats Mark!
 Life Rolls On Heroes
Know a hero? Nominate him or her today!
The LRO Hero section was buried in our website, so nominations have slowed. We've moved it to a more prominent location and hopefully will be receiving more nominations soon.
> Listing of current Heroes
> Nominate a Hero
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