Action Requested: Team LoChanRulez $1,000,000 challenge for the Enbridge Ride to Conquer Cancer

The Story:  Team LoChanRulez was formed in memory of my late wife, Lorraine Chan, an avid cyclist who succumbed to cancer on 22 April 2014.  To date, our ragtag team of 4 riders has raised more than $50,000 due to the overwhelming generosity of family and friends.  However, as our donations have slowed and with the Ride only four days away, we’ve asked ourselves what Lorraine would do?  The answer is clear, she would have set the bar even higher and so should we.  Our renewed goal is to convince 50,000 people around the world to donate $20 each.  That would push Team LoChanRulez past $1,000,000 and make us the top fundraising team for this year’s Ride.  What better way to pay tribute to Lorraine and the loved ones we all have lost to cancer through the years?  

 

Why you should donate:  It is always fun to be part of something ambitious and bigger than ourselves, and hopefully for many people $20 is an affordable amount to donate to this very worthy cause.  Cancer research benefits people around the world no matter where it is done.  In Lorraine’s case, the team at the Tom Baker Cancer Centre collaborated closely with the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston.  When information and research is shared, we are all one step closer to winning the war on cancer.

 

The Ask:

 

1.       If you have donated already, thank you again, you can skip to 2.  If you haven’t, please follow these nine easy steps (I didn’t provide a link so you know this isn’t a phishing e-mail or something else malicious): Google ‘Enbridge Ride to Conquer Cancer’; click on the website link; click on ‘Alberta’ at the top of the page; click on the green ‘Donate’ button at the top of the page; click on the circle by  ‘Search for a Team’; type in ‘LoChanRulez’; click on ‘Find a Participant’; click on ‘Mike Urquhart’; click on the green ‘Donate Online Now’; and then donate $20.

2.       Please forward this message on to 2 or more people who you know are people of action.  We only have four more days after all, and it should only take 8 rounds of forwarding to hit $1,000,000.   In particular, send it to people who aren’t in Calgary.  Lorraine and I lived overseas for 10 years, so hopefully we can make this go viral globally.

3.       Check the website periodically to see how we are doing towards the $1,000,000 goal.

 

On behalf of Team LoChanRulez and Lorraine, thanks for your support and have a great day,

 

Mike Urquhart