To the good people of IDo Fishing

Everyday I/you read about people in need. The Ido folk were unfreaking believable in fund raising for Kaden’s Run. Actually, there are no words to describe what you guys did. None.

When Jesse Krook posted a while back about Maggie Brown well, it’s another heart wencher. I feel uncomfortable coming back to Ido folks to help raise funds, so I’m not.

I’m just going to post the info about the fund raiser at the Bluff’s Bar and Grill near Everts Resort.

**THIS MIGHT BE WERE YOU WANT TO STOP READING**

Dear Friends,
On January 2, 2014, beautiful, sweet, 8-year-old, Maggie was diagnosed with a rare, aggressive, form of pediatric brain cancer. Her symptoms started suddenly the week of Christmas 2013, when she began having vomiting and issues with equilibrium. A local clinic trip led to a CT scan followed by an MRI at Mayo Rochester where they confirmed the gut wrenching news of a cancerous tumor located in Maggie’s brain stem.

Maggie immediately began 6 weeks of radiation therapy to help shrink the tumor. Surgery and chemotherapy are not options with this type of cancer.

Because the cancer is aggressive, specialty treatments are strongly encouraged, and her family is hoping to pursue this at Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh, PA in the coming month.

Maggie is the daughter of Colby and Heather (Reynolds) Brown of Ellsworth, WI.(both formerly of Hastings MN) She has 2 older brothers (Mark and Henry) and a younger sister (Ruthann). Maggie is a little girl that blesses all those she is around. Her smile and giggle are contagious. She loves art work and creating treasured pieces for her family and friends, riding her bike, and swimming. Maggie is a good student in school and loves being surrounded by all of her friends. She also likes playing store with siblings, hanging out with her cats and dogs, and collecting stuffed animals.

Maggie has taught us all how to love unconditionally, to laugh and find moments of fun, even during the daily drives to radiation.

She has amazed her family and friends with her ability to trust the process of care and treatments and take life one precious day at a time.

Family, friends, and loved ones are holding a benefit for Maggie on Saturday, June 14, 2014, at the Bluff’s in Hager City, WI starting at 2 p.m. to help with the medical expenses and provide further medical care for their long journey ahead.

We cannot help take away the pain they are experiencing, but we can help in other ways.

If you cannot attend but still want to help, you can donate to “Maggie Brown Fund” at any Wells Fargo Bank.

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Edit: If you don’t have any spare time or money or just don’t want to, your thoughts and prayers are gladly accepted.

A great cause.
All will benefit, we have raffle tickets for sale in the shop and have heard there are more donations still to come.
See ya there

As an old wore out adult participant in cancer therapy, these kid things still rip me up. Help where you can and stay on top of your health. Prayer and internet are powerful tools in this game.

I have always been of the opinion that people into fishing and the outdoors are very upstanding folks. Family,hard work and a willingness to help people are common traits.

Buying fishing tackle is as much a hobby as it is a nesscessity to catch fish, so it’s possible to forego a handful of crankbaits once in awhile for a great cause. Plus from a selfish standpoint it feels great!

Is there a way, short of driving to Wisconsin, to buy raffle tickets?

hey matt,just give us a call we will figure it out we can mail u the tickets!

By Heather Brown — 35 minutes ago

It’s finally summertime We are all so happy to welcome the warm weather! Its been a busy couple of weeks in our household. We just returned home from Maggie’s Make A Wish trip to St. John, USVI. We had a truly wonderful time and did plenty of relaxing in the sunshine. Maggie got to go snorkeling a bunch of times at different beaches. We saw sea turtles, sting ray, conch, many different types of fish and beautiful coral reefs! It is such a beautiful part of the world and we are very lucky we had the chance to go there and spend a week in the sun and sand.

Our many thanks to Make A Wish Wisconsin for a trip of a lifetime! They took care of every detail and we thoroughly enjoyed ourselves. The timing of the trip was very good too. She started physical therapy a couple weeks before we left and had begun to regain some of her strength and balance. Then we went to the beach for a week and she spent so much time in the water, it was very healing for her!

Now we are home and all settled in and very thankful for the beautiful weather. We got our pool all set up and ready to go so she can continue spending time in the water (swimming has always been a favorite activity).

She also really loves to ride her bike (and of course the dirt bike), but she is unable to do that due to her balance issues, so that will be something we will have to deal with this summer. We do have a bike tag along that we are going to try and get her onto so she can enjoy some bike rides this summer.

Maggie’s benefit is coming up on June 14th and I’d like to take a minute to say THANK YOU to the friends and family members that have put so much effort into setting everything up.

It is hard to come up with the words to say how much we appreciate everything. So we will simply say thank you.

She has another MRI coming up in about 2 weeks, so we will get another look at the tumor and see what if any changes have developed since her last scan.

Overall she is feeling well, she gets tired easily and has had some headaches recently, mostly when she over does it. She has had some nausea again the past couple of days but we adjusted her medication a bit and that seems to have worked for now.

Thanks again to everyone for their help and love and support, we love you all.

take care and enjoy the lovely sunny days!

The Brown family

Thank you everyone for any support. You don’t know how much we all take life for granted until a situation like this hits home. It probably hit me hardest when Maggie asked “mom, how come I cannot smile anymore?” I’ve been with the family to treatments, when it’s just moms, dads, brothers, sisters and me. What an absolutely tough tough situation. Come to grips with knowing your child only has a few months to live….there are no grips.

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These are the things that give me nightmares. My family has been through this, it is still difficult. As a parent, I know I will do anything to help my daughter and any other family in this situation.

Hello IDO brothers and sisters, thank you ALL for stepping up once again to help someone that very few of us knew existed before this tragic event happened. This site and its people are amazing.

Brian, even though you don’t want it, I say Thank you for being you again. Your heart and soul are a beautiful thing.

Jesse, I don’t know you, but your support of this family is an amazing thing. I’ve been on your side of this battle and sometimes as a friend we just feel helpless. Being a friend and member of their support team helps more than you know. Keep up the strong front for your friends.

I won’t be able to attend that event, but I will be logging onto W/Fargo to make a contribution.

Bless this little girl and her family.

We have 4 fishing trips being auctioned off.

1) BK’s Trophy Catfishing and Sturgeon Adventure
2) River Rat Randy Guide Service 6hrs
3) Rush City Guide Trophy fish trips
4) Mille Lacs Weekend cabin get-away and 6hr guided fishing trip

Kudo’s to all the guides for stepping up! Well done guys :applause

Jesse keep banging the drum, you are doing a great job!

The day is near, less than 2 weeks away and we have a bunch of stuff ranging from Twins tickets to autographed photo’s including one from Angelina Jolie and one from Adrian Peterson to well pumps with install to candles to hardware supplies to I pod to 50″tv ….the list goes on and on

Suggest this topic is pinned until the day of the event. It should not slip down even to mid-page. If a post about IDO hoodies deserves a pin…

Jesse, I just put together a box of things for your auction. It’s being sent UPS today.

Thank you again for getting involved. Nothing more deserving than helping and doing something for kids!!!

Thank you very much sir. Your kindness is greatly appreciated

Raffle Ticket Purchased!! So anyone else out of state that would like to purchase Raffle tickets to support this cause just call:

Everts Resort
Bait Shop Hours 6 am to 6 pm
Phone: 715-792-2333

Jesse I have a package for you.

I sold some ticket at Everts about 1:30 this morning.

See you Monday after work at yer house BK

Thank you BH

Here is a pic of Maggie on June 5th enjoying feild day at her school with her friends. Says she had soooo much fun. I’m looking forward to spending next weekend with her and the family, it’s going to be a great weekend

Just received word form Mr Krook, I’ll have the flat screen tv tickets in my slimy hands by tomorrow…Monday night.

Jeff H. would you like me to mail them to you?

Silent Auctions, Bucket Raffles, Wheel Barrel full of liquor, Meat Raffle, 2 flat screen tv’s, guided fishing trips, twins tickets, beer mirrors, tickets to country fest, golf packages, ipod, beats headphones and much much more. This Saturday

Maggie Brown Auction
Saturday, June 14 @ 2 PM
Bluffs Bar and Grill
Hager City WI -near Everts Fishing Resort

Raffle tickets bought. Good luck this Sat.

In case if anybody was wondering Maggie said she is going to try and be at the benefit all day. Sounds like rain is in the forecast so it will be a good day to come down and hang out at The Bluffs for the day.

Don’t forget we have 4 guided fishing trips, a tackle box full of tackle and 2 ice fishing rods custom built by Trumar.

Everts Resort donated a St.Croix Rod along with a sweatshirt, a long sleeved t-shirt, a calendar with 12 free launch’s and 2 can koozies.

Hope to see a bunch of you there

Jesse I have the money for a book of raffle tickets for the 42″ flatscreen.

Jeff Huberty wanted $20. worth so I’ll put in the cash for his until I see him…after he wakes up.

So if a guy can’t make it to the Bluffs this Saturday, how does he buy some raffle tickets or straight up just make a donation?

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If you cannot attend but still want to help, you can donate to “Maggie Brown Fund” at any Wells Fargo Bank.

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I have 6 raffle tickets left Pug (or anyone else). If you like I’ll put your name on them and kick in the cash until you send me a check.

Raffle is for a 42″ HD 1080 Flat Screen TV to be drawn tomorrow at the Bluffs Bar and Grill. Need not be present to win.

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If you cannot attend but still want to help, you can donate to “Maggie Brown Fund” at any Wells Fargo Bank.

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I have 6 raffle tickets left Pug (or anyone else). If you like I’ll put your name on them and kick in the cash until you send me a check.

Raffle is for a 42″ HD 1080 Flat Screen TV to be drawn tomorrow at the Bluffs Bar and Grill. Need not be present to win.

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There is also an account set up for Maggie (under her mom’s name – See flyer at top of post) at Wells Fargo. It was easy to make a deposit.

Good Luck this weekend, hopefully your goals are blown out of the water.

Would you need to call a branch office to make a donation?