Updates:

July 20th, 2008  Click here to sign Riki's guest book online with The Advocate.com obituaries.

Remembering you on your 32nd Birthday Riki, and thinking of you each and everyday that passes. What amazing things the kids are doing and how fast they are growing. Cole speaks of his Aunt Riki on various occasions. Rylee is an exact copy of you in every way imaginable. She is without question the greatest gift you left to us all. A lil Riki for all the world to know!

Not a day goes by that you do not dominate our thoughts. We are all humbled by losing you and blessed to know and love you.

Missing you on your Birthday,

Buddy

March 14th, 2008

We Miss  you Riki and think of you everyday.

Click here to sign Riki's guest book online with The Advocate.com obituaries.

September 4th, 2007

Today we remember Kirby Hawthorne and the second anniversary of her passing. I can honestly say that she is missed and loved everyday from all the friends and family that I have had the honor of meeting and befriending over the past 2 plus years.  I miss you Kirby...

Buddy

TCS Updates:

• The Girls Garage in St Amant has closed shop. All the Cancer shirts are now back in my possession. If you would like a shirt, please send me an email from the feedback page link on the left border area. It will take me a bit longer to see what we have as the shirts have not been unpacked and sorted yet. Please be patient with me, as I will try to fill every order.
• Savannah Smith is hosting her benefit at the end of this month. Please email her mom Shelly to learn more about it or to volunteer to work at her benefit Join Savannah's Team
• The Leukemia Lymphoma's Light the Night event is coming soon. Please click this link to join Melissa Miller, our own AML survivor, at this event to represent hope and the TCS team. Melissa Miller's Light The Night Page

July 20th, 2007

http://www.legacy.com/TheAdvocate/GB/GuestbookView.aspx?PersonId=3289931

Happy Birthday Riki Jo!!!

June 20th, 2007

June 15th, 2007

Sorry for the delay in updates. In the past 2 months, the TCS team has worked the Baton Rouge Relay for life thanks to Melissa, Charlie, Scott and Lisa's efforts! We appreciate your hard work! The team also set up a booth at the Gonzales Jambalaya Festival on Friday, Sat and Sun. TCS raised over $600 at the festival alone, but the real value was getting our name out. Between the two relays, TCS raised $2500 dollars to help us help cancer patients. We recently made a very large shirt order. This order includes new vintage fitted shirts for men and women in new colors. You can see all the new shirts in person at The Girls Garage on Hwy 431 in Saint Amant. Lisa has a big display in the front of the store for all to see. The newly created TCS team shirts for our team members has been completely redesigned and looks great.

Stop by and check out Lisa's Garage and the new TCS store front!

May 8th, 2007

Wow! The Gonzales Relay for Life was awesome in everyway and a big success for the ACS as well as the TCS team. I want to thank everyone who came out despite the weather being so bad earlier in the day. I got to see so many friends and folks that I've known for years and those I just met. The TCS team really appreciates your support of our efforts!

We are in need of some TCS volunteers to work the Baton Rouge Relay this weekend May, 11th, at the Baton Rouge State Fair Grounds to sell some shirts. If you'd like to do this, send us an email at thetcsteam@yahoo.com

Here is a current pic of the shirts in stock. Now this pic represents styles in stock, not sizes. After the Gonzales Relay, our sizes vs stock took a nice hit. So please inquire on the buy a shirt link on the left.

April 15, 2007

  Riki Jo and Mom at Riki's wedding...

The TCS team is having a meeting today, Sunday April 15th, at the St. Amant Fire dept from 5pm till we are finished. We will have food and drinks for all our members. We have an agenda we must review and the discussion of the upcoming relay. Kids are welcome to come, as we love new members and new ideas. I will also be bringing ALL of the cancer shirts I have in my possession. I  have alot of shirts. So, if you want or need a shirt, please get to the fire dept tonight and get yours. There are now some new shirts and new color combos too.

I  hope to see you all there tonight!

Buddy

Wanted:

The TCS team is looking for the following types of people to help us in our efforts to become bigger and better.

* Internet Designer / Website Creator - inquire at thetcsteam@yahoo.com

* Wood Worker  - someone to build custom painting frames for the TCS items for auction. please inquire at thetcsteam@yahoo.com

March 22, 2007

The shirts are in and  you can order them from the feedback page link to the left. Be sure to include your shirt selection, size and mailing address. You will get a confirmation email from me assuring your order has been received and your shirt order can be filled. We are selling shirts fast, so first come first serve is the rule.

The Relay for life is May 4th so mark your calendars!

Buddy

Cole at Easter last year...

March 15th, 2007  (sorry for the delay in updating! I promise to do a better job)

Its spring time again and the TCS team is getting geared up for the Relay for Life in Gonzales. As most of you know it was 2 years ago yesterday that Riki became and Angel. We had a nice dinner at Chili's last night with a few folks and it was wonderful. Despite the sadness of the day, seeing family and friends always helps out and leaves you feeling much better about it all. 

Ok, so here is what's going on with the TCS:

• The Relay is May 4-5th at Tanger Mall in Gonzales.
• We have a booth reserved and will be selling shirts, food, drinks, messages to heaven in a balloon and I'm sure more stuff before its all done.
• Im currently waiting for a call from volunteers from local high schools to paint faces on the kids.
• More Tshirts have been ordered and should be in very soon. We will  have to put on a TCS 'shirt rolling' meeting to prep these shirts for sale.
• We also have more care packages to make and mail off. Seems like there are more kids than we can make boxes for. :(
• Last meeting was a rounding success and plenty of items were checked off the list, but a few of us still have some things we have to get done. Please review the minutes of the meetings to refresh your mind!
• sign up for our team today! goto www.acsevents.org/relay/la/ascension and sign up to be a part of our team today!

Please visit our myspace page at www.myspace.com/teamcancersucks and check out the freinds list! its growing everyday with tons of great folks across the globe and lots of great friends right here in our back yard. What a crazy thing it is!  Once the new shirts come in, I expect a flood of request for them. Matter of fact, Im quite nervous that they wont last very long at all. Hopefully we can sell plenty and make enough money to order more very soon. This order has more designs and various color schemes. So it should be very interesting...stay tuned!

Thats all for now, as I will leave you with a pic of Riki just being herself with her little copy...

Buddy

October 4th, 2006

Hello everyone. This weekend we need your help. The TCS team is hosting a garage sale and plate lunch sale this Saturday October 7th at Carpenters Chapel Church in Prairieville. The hours are from 7am till 2pm. The lunch will be a chicken and sausage Pastalaya cooked by Tommy Mayer, 2 time finalist in the Jambalaya Festival Cooking Contest. This is going to be an awesome lunch. We will also have a bake sale, ice cold drinks and tons of quality merchandise at deep discounts so we can raise some funds to fuel our mission. Hope you come by and pick up a plate of food and browse around.

The TCS team will also be visiting local hospitals on 10/29/06 to spread some holiday cheer. We will be dressing up for Halloween and visiting the kids and giving out candy and gifts to those children who are fighting cancer.

There are so many new things going on right now that its impossible to remember them all. Please visit our my space page at www.myspace.com/teamcancersucks to see our growing list of friends and very cool stuff.

  Some members of the TCS team putting Gift bags together for our kids at St Judes.

September 4th, 2006

Today we remember Kirby Hawthorne. One year ago today, we lost a beautiful child to cancer. She was in New Orleans at Tulane Medical center during Hurricane Katrina. The subsequent days that followed without power and procedures, Kirby's condition turned desperate. Please Keep Kirby's family in your prayers these few days. I know Kirby personally and she was as beautiful a person inside as she was outside. You are terribly missed Kirb.

  Kirby, Early 2005 after finishing her first Round of treatments.

TCS Update: The garage sale has been moved to a new date. The new date will be October 7th, 2006. Please mark your calenders.

August 16th, 2006

  Riki Jo and Grandpa George at Riki's wedding April '02

Hello everyone! Here is the news from the front lines on the war with Cancer...

• The Next TCS garage sale is scheduled for September 16th, 2006. Times and Place yet to be determined. I will post all the info when it becomes official. Looks like we will be selling a Pastalaya for lunch that day.
• Some of you may remember the email I sent out about Kenneth Whittington. Kenneth was burned in freak flash fire accident at work and received burns across 45% of his body. His has been in ICU for some time now. More update are forthcoming, but for now continue your prayers for Kenneth and his wife and daughter.
• For this garage sale, we will not actively pursue open donations as we still have ALOT of stuff for this garage sale. So for now, we are accepting very minimal donations of only high quality merchandise.

July 20th , 2006

Riki enjoying a feast!

I would like to take this opportunity to remind all those who visit this page, that today is Riki Jo's 30th Birthday. This Friday (July 21st) Family and close friends are invited to attend a dinner at Chili's to honor and remember Riki at her favorite restaurant.  Please also take a few moments this Sunday to visit a benefit for Hannah Theriot at St Johns Church in Praireville.  See the update below for details...

HAPPY BIRTHDAY RIKI,                      We all love and miss you!

June 23rd , 2006 - BENEFIT ANNOUNCEMENT FOR HANNAH THERIOT!!!

Hannah is a two and a half year old resident of Gonzales, Louisiana. She is
the daughter of Kevin "Chick" and Kristen Theriot. She has one older
brother, Grant.

Hannah (at nine months old) was diagnosed with "Chronic Mucocutaneous
Candidiasis", which is a rare immune system disorder in which her T cells do
not function. She is therefore prone to severe yeast and fungal infections
which in turn results in often and lengthy hospital stays. Hannah is
presently at Duke Medical Care in Durham, North Carolina for a bone marrow
transplant.

Hannah is covered under a family group insurance policy with United Health
Care. However the cost of her many prescriptions, frequent stays at Our Lady
of the Lake Hospital and now at Duke Medical Center (plus the cost of
traveling to and from North Carolina) have become devastating to the
family's finances. In addition, Hannah and her family have had to rent an
apartment in Durham, N.C. because, upon release from the hospital, Hannah
must remain "quarantined" in the area for a minimum of eight months. We are
asking for your support for Hannah and her family.

Hannah's 3rd birthday is July 23rd. A "HELPING HANNAH - BIRTHDAY BENEFIT"
has been set for Sunday, July 23, 2006. The benefit will be held at St. John
the Evangelist Catholic Church located at 15208 Hwy. 73, Prairieville, LA.
The benefit will begin at 10:00 A.M. and end at 5:30 P.M. The following are
just a few of the fund raising events that will be offered at the benefit.
There are numerous ways that you can help. Please come and show your support
for Hannah, Grant, Kristen, and Kevin.

Jambalaya Dinners
Sweet Shop
Cold Crinks/Beer
Silent Auction (includes signed LSU memorabilia)
Barbeque Chicken Dinners
Cake Walk
Games for the Children
Bands

"Helping Hannah" T-Shirts will be available for purchase.

Monetary Donations can be made payable to:
Helping Hannah Theriot
Deposit at Capitol One Bank
(formally Hibernia)

Mail donations to:
Marjorie Dean
38363 Babin Road
Gonzales, LA 70737

For more information:
Marjorie Dean (Hannah's Grandmother) (225) 673-2237
Stephanie Jarreau (Hannah's Godmother) (225) 921-2958

VISIT HANNAH and KRISTEN at http://www.caringbridge.org/visit/hannahtheriot

June 12th , 2006

Attention all TCS members and folks on our update list, if you can, please attend our TCS meeting at the Gonzales YMCA on Monday nite, June 12th 2006 from 6:30 till 7:30pm.

Hope to see you there.

June 3rd , 2006

It is with great sadness that I post the passing of Tara Pastreau and of Quintilius Robinson.

Quintilius was diagnosed in January 2006 with Lymphoma. Quintilius was only 15yrs old and lived in Dutchtown. One of our TCS team members is a co-worker with the Robinson family and has stayed very close to them during Quintilius' battle with Lymphoma. Please take a moment to pray for the Robinson Family.

Tara Pastreau was a young mother of 2 small boys and lived in New Rhoads. You can visit Tara's legacy website at:  http://www.legacy.com/Link.asp?Id=GB17962169X
 Pastureau, Tara Rogers Over the past couple of days, Tara had performed miracles and has finally been rewarded for all of her efforts. She is cured. The most beautiful spirit we will ever know has provided us with a legacy of love that will serve as our foundation for spiritual growth. We invite you to celebrate her life this Saturday, June 3, 2006, at the Immaculate Conception Church, 12364 La. 416, Lakeland, 70773. Visitation will be from 10:30 a.m. until funeral Mass at 1 p.m., with recitation of the rosary at 11:30 a.m. She is survived by her husband, Everett; her two sons, Luke and Jonah; her parents, Lonnie and Janice Rogers; her sister, Allison; her brother, Dustin; and her maternal grandparents, Rivas and Wilda Cradeur. She was preceded in death by her paternal grandparents, the late Lonnie N. Rogers Sr. and Aline Rogers.
Published in The Advocate from 6/2/2006 - 6/3/2006.

May 28th , 2006

HAPPY BIRTHDAY RYLEE!

May 23rd , 2006

HAPPY BIRTHDAY BRITNEE!

May 15th, 2006

Hello everyone! Sorry its been so long since the site has been updated. I recently bought a new computer and it didnt come with any internet publishing software. So, after some time, I was able to get what I needed to proceed with updating the site.

The Relay for Life was a wonderful and the people were terrific! We had a good time and got to meet some amazing persons.

Riley Jo Bottoms had a garage sale last weekend, I  hope she was able to raise plenty of money for her fight!

The TCS team is still in need of a Mini Warehouse storage facility. Please let us know if  you have something we can use!

There is a strong possibility that we will co-host another Garage sale very soon with another local family. Details to come soon.

There's more news to come, but for now just having the ability to update this site is a major step forward!!!

April 28th, 2006

HAPPY BIRTHDAY KIRBY HAWTHORNE & PRESTON WILLIAMS!!! Kirby, we sure do miss you. Preston, 1 year old today and you have made everyone so proud.

 The TCS Team has just about everything in place for our tent station at the Relay tonight located at Tanger Mall.

We will have our new Cancer shirts, raffles, Smoothies, cokes/drinks, protein bars and great fun..Hope to see you tonight!

April 26th, 2006

Its Relay Time again!! This Friday (April 28th, 2006) The American Cancer Society will be hosting their annual Relay for Life event at the Tanger Mall in Gonzales. Gates open at 7pm and the festivities last till 7am Saturday Morning. There will be a large variety of food, games, items for sale, things to do demonstrations etc. all night long. Its a family atmosphere so bring the kids and help support the ACS efforts to find a cure. The TCS team will be there under a big tent. This year we are made up of Team Riki and Team Britnee. I'm sure we will have a very popular booth this year! This year we will be offering a very unique series of items for sale. I hope TCS is the Hit of the event!

Kassidy Terrio  www.caringbridge.org/visit/kassidyterrio  had her fundraiser last weekend and I was sure to get a tshirt for all my family and bought numerous raffle tickets. I dont know how well she did, but I do hope it was a huge success.

In other news, Tara Pastereu, www.caringbridge.org/visit/TaraPastureau  local cancer patient is in need of your prayers. Click on her link to read her story.

Some good news, Zoie Willeford's parents, Trudi and Darrin, will be hosting a garage sale in the coming weeks. They will be raising money for a good cause. Here is an excerpt from Zoie's website www.caringbridge.com/visit/zoiewilleford :

 I hope to see everyone out at the Relay this Friday Night! Stop the TCS Tent and say Hello!!! My group of young Karate Students will be demonstrating their karate skills at the Relay at 9pm so if your out and about, come and check the kids out.

April 5th, 2006

Hello everyone, there is so much to discuss here that I hope I can remember it all. I will use a bullet set up to keep it all seperate. Lots of things are happening for the TCS group this month.

• There are new names and links on the links page for cancer patients we are following.
• There "may" be a TCS meeting this weekend. More details to follow for TCS Memembers.
• April 21st is Kassidy's fund raiser date. Email allison@rtconline.com for more info.
• TCS donated funds for Riley Jo's fund raiser and we won some items! These items will be recycled to help more kids in our continous efforts to help those who suffer.
• Please visit http://www.caringbridge.org/mi/ashleigh  website for Ashleigh and sign her guestbook.
• The funds raised by the Garage Sale have been put to great use already, but were not done. There were so many businesses that donated to our cause, that I didnt include them all as I should have. Please read below as Ive updated it as best my mind can remember.
• The American Cancer Relay is coming on April 28th 2006, which is incidently Preston Williams 1st Birthday and would have been Kirby's 22nd birthday. Please visit www.acsevents.org/relay/la/ascension to get signed up today. A karate school will also be giving a demonstration that evening.
• Be sure to visit our links page and spend some time visiting the families that need some encouraging words and prayers.

Thats about all I have for now, If I have left out something very important, please send me an email at thetcsteam@yahoo.com

March 18th, 2006

Well, the garage sale was a much more rousing success than I could have imagined. Not only did we exceed our expectations but we ended up with so much quality items left over that our next garage sale will be partialy stocked  from the start! Our 1 day cash total exceeded $2300 !!!! We also received checks from various people and business throughout the parish. It was great to see so many friends and familiar faces. I have so many "Thank You's!" to give out.... First to our volunteers: Amy, Tiffani, Donald, Angel, Tina, Gemma, Ashely, Lacie, Roland, both Mary's, Brad, and perhaps one or two more I cant seem to think of... also to our helpers: Andrew, Brandi, Maw-Maws and Paw-Paws everywhere, Moms and Dads of Volunteers, so many...

To the area businesses that helped us get all of this off the ground with services or donations:

• Carpenters Chapel Church - for hosting this with your facility!
• Freedom Church in St Amant - for donating all the Jambalaya ingredients
• Tunney King - Lymon Abadie - for slaving over the hot pot to make our Awesome Jambalaya!
• Ascension Paper
• Coastal Wire Rope - Cash Donations
• Richard Oil - Cash Donation and All our Cold Drinks
• Gonzales Weekly
• Ascension Citizen
• B&B Thumper 2 Cycle Engine Repair - Bake Sale Donations
• Ralph's Supermarket - Discount on Jambalaya ingredients
• Matherns Grocery - Cold Drinks donated
• Falcon's Body Shop - all our paper products
• Sunbeam Bread - all of our bread needs
•  

I'm  sure that's not everybody, but my mind is blank. So I will update the site soon with all the info I can get and let you know how many have helped us. Pics will be coming soon....

thanks to all again!

March 14th, 2006

Remembering you on this day Riki. A year went by very fast, but the pain of your passing has never dulled. You are missed more and more each day and time has done nothing to ease this misery. We love and miss you more than these words could ever represent.

Mom, Dad, Buddy and Friends

February 20th, 2006

TCS Group is Hosting A One Day Only Garage Sale:

  Local cancer benefit group, Team TCS, will be having a garage sale on Saturday March 18th from 7am till 5pm (no early birds). This event will be held at Carpenters Chapel Church at 41200 Hwy. 933 Pairieville, La.

This garage sale will be stocked with items from dozens of families. Toys, clothes, tools, items from just about all categories.  We will also be selling a hot plate lunch and a bake sale too.  All proceeds from this garage sale will benefit the TCS group efforts to aid cancer patients from our local area.

 Please come out and help us raise money to fight these horrible diseases and bring hope to those who need it most. If you have items of quality to donate to our sale, please get it to us no later than March 15^th, 2006. We will be accepting donated items to sale at the garage sale at two locations. Please send us an email to arrange your drop off date and time.

email at thetcsteam@yahoo.com  we will get back to you very quickly.

If you would like to help us by donating sweets or baked goods for sale, please do so, and contact us accordingly.

We will let you know more about the lunch being served as information is gathered.  We still need info on the cost of ingredients, plates (appx. 200 will be sold), and silverware.

So far we have the following volunteers for Wednesday, March 15^th assist us:

           Amy, Stacey, Brandi, Tiffani, Gemma, and Lori -  we could use more…

We have the following volunteers to work the garage sale:

            Gemma – All day

            Lori – All day

            Tiffani – All day

            Brandi – 7am-12pm

            Amy – All day

            Donald – All day

            Ashley – All day

            Stacey – 12pm-4pm

*If anyone else can volunteer to help on any of these dates, PLEASE contact us and let us know! We could always use your help. Just send us an email at thetcsteam@yahoo.com to offer your help. We need people, garage sale donations (items/clothes we can sell, baked goods to sell, canned drinks to sell, etc) 

Relay for Life News:

Relay for Life will be held on April 28^th from 7pm-7am.  Yep, this is an overnight event.  We will have two teams, Team Riki (which is let by Stacey) and Team Britnee (which is led by Brandi).  Both teams will be under the SAME tent so whichever team you want to join, please join.  We will all be together.  We still need committed volunteers for this event!  Please join one of the teams so that we can have a great impact!  Stacey and Brandi will also need volunteers to help us set up our booths under the tent that day.  We can begin working on them at 12pm and they must be set up by 5:30pm. 

This is going to be a great event for the TCS team as we will be selling our t-shirts and other items for fundraising purposes!  Even if you can’t stay all night, please join us!  We can always do shifts if you would like.  Email Brandi (bduplessis@epicgrp.com or cherresse@eatel.net) or Stacey (staceyvill@eatel.net) for more information on how to volunteer for the event.  WE NEED YOU!!! We will also be making our own TCS team shirts to wear to the event, so please email us with your shirt size!  Spouses are welcome to wear our TCS team shirts also, so be sure to include their size too!

February 13th, 2006

The TCS team successfully made the planned rounds at Children's Hospital in New Orleans and at OLOL in Baton Rouge. We thought we would need a red wagon to help us carry all the items, but we ended up needing 5 red wagons. All 5 were overstuffed! We were able to give out all of our gift bags and we distributed all of the toys. I wish I had pics of all the happy faces we saw on Saturday. Unfortunately we are unable to show all the pics unless we had written consent from all the parents of each child. A minor technicality that we weren't prepared for. We will know better next time. To see some pics, go to the image gallery. The Members that made the trip were Amy, Angel, Gemma, Lori & Tiffany. It was a little bittersweet at both hospitals. New Orleans was Britnee's hospital and OLOL was Riki and Kirby's hospital. Walking those hallways give such a complex emotion. Its quite hard to explain. All in all, I'm sure Kirby, Riki and Britnee are all proud of us for doing what we are doing in the face of such adversity.

Garage Sale is on! The 2nd Quarter TCS Garage Sale will take place on March 18th & 19th, 2006 at Carpenters Chapel Church in Galvez. There are still some issues we need to iron out with the church, but for now it seems all a go! We will openly ask again for your generous donations very soon. Please check back often as all the news on this event could break any day. I will also send out emails to those on my update lists. If you would like to receive my updates, with the subject titled "I want on the update list". Be sure to include your name and all the email addresses you wish to submit.

There will be another TCS Meeting announcement very soon so we can prepare for the garage sale. For anyone who is not familiar with our garage sales, let me give you a simple description: All the items we sale at the garage sale (gs) are from donated items for people in our community. You, me, co-workers, family, anyone can donate as long as the goods are in usable condition and worthy of such an event. All the money raised in this gs will help the TCS team purchase gift bags, shirts, pay for new items for patients, cash donations to fund raisers and ship care packages to children out of town. All the funds raised goes back to patients in some form of help from us.  There will be an announcement very soon on the day to bring me your donated items for the garage sale. So start thinking about it, rummage thru your closet, shed and entertainment systems for things you don't wear, listen to or watch, use or ride.

The American Cancer Society's Relay for Life will be held on April 28th, 2006 at the Tanger Mall Outlet Center in Gonzales. The TCS team will be there. Our Team Captain, Stacey Villneurve will be gathering your team pledges. If you would like to aid us in manpower for this 12 hour event, please send an email to staceyvill@eatel.net to find out more. Incidentally, April 28th is Kirby Hawthorne and Preston Williams' Birthdays. Kirby would be 22 and Preston will make 1 year old. It will be a day of remembering and a day of celebrating. I hope to see you all there for some food, fun and fellowship.

Be sure to check the links page for links to all the patients we are actively supporting.

February 11th, 2006

          Today is the day we hand deliver some smiles to the children of the New Orleans Children's Hospital. Last night I saw an amazing collection of goods for the kids at Tiffany's house. It was so inspiring. There is no doubt that today, The TCS team will indeed make a difference. The girls were hard at work last nite putting things together in an orderly fashion. Tiffany, Tina, Gemma, Lori, Angel were the difference. Thanks to Amy for the wonderful gifts to our older kids. Laci's donations were simply amazing. David Villermarette, Pastor of Freedom Church in Saint Amant, donated brand new Bibles, Children's Bible Stories and other books of faith for our gift bags. Rhonda King with State Farm Insurance, Jackie Martinez with the Red Barn Produce/  Bayou Critter Trucking, Al King with New Star Transportation and Brian St. Germain for all your cash donations toward our endeavor to buy toys for the Children's Hospital in New Orleans ( cancer ward).  We can't do this alone, God Bless these wonderful people for being there for us.

Later Today I will post pictures of our day. I know they will capture the true meaning of our mission.

February 3rd, 2006

Update on Preston Williams:

"Today is a glorious day and I have the most wonderful news to report... PRESTON IS CANCER FREE........that is right cancer free! Can you believe it. Our little fighter is such a miracle. Thank you all for your constant prayers and support, I know that is what got us this far."

- Christine Williams

To read more about Preston, please visit his site at www.caringbridge.com visit prestonwilliams

Update on Our TCS Efforts:

Our Mission Statement:

About 2 weeks ago we held our first quarter TCS meeting. There was a tremendous sense of accomplishment from the things we were able to discuss and decide. I will highlight some of our upcoming events and plans.

The TCS group has its email address up. We can all be reached at thetcsteam@yahoo.com  Sheri Schexnayder, TCS member, and owner of www.geauxnetworks.com has offered up her talents to help us get www.teamcancersucks.com up and running.

Sheri is also very active in the Leukemia-Lymphoma Society Team In Training fund raiser. To help Sheri reach her goal of $2800 by April, please send her an email at sheri@geauxmail.com or visit her Team in Traing site at http://www.geauxnetworks.com/team_in_training.htm  Remember every little bit helps.  Sheri will be walking in honor of her brother Ed Schexnayder III, Kirby Hawthorne & Riki Jo Leader who all have passed away in 2005 from various types of Leukemia. She will also walk for Ed Bateman who is currently battling Leukemia. Please go to www.geauxnetworks.com to read more...

February 11th, 2006 - The TCS group will travel to the New Orleans Children's hospital to deliver gift bags of goodies and a red wagon full of toys and such for the kids. We will leave at 12 noon from the YMCA at Lamar-Dixon center. All TCS members are invited to attend. If you have any toys, videos, etc that you would like to donate to the kids at NOCH, please contact a TCS member prior to 2/10/06. email us at thetcsteam@yahoo.com

On March 18th, 2006, The TCS team will hold its quarterly Garage Sale. The place has yet to be determined, but mark your calenders now. Once we establish a place, we will be begging you all to get us your stuff as donations are the only way we do so well.
We are raising money for the mission we are trying to fulfill.

April 28th, 2006 The ACS Relay for Life will be held at Tanger Mall in Gonzales. Im not sure about all the details yet, but stay tuned.

-Buddy

January 9th, 2006

Little Riki Jo as a Longhorn Cheerleader

Happy New Year to you all!

I hope you all have enjoyed the holiday season. On to the latest news.

on 1/21/06 JDRF: There is an upcoming event "Walk to Cure Diabetes" that will raise money for the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation. The event will be held on Saturday January 21st, 2006 at the LSU Campus on the "old front nine" area. Check in time is 10am and the event will start at 11am. Please visit www.jdrf.org for more information, or visit Zoie Willeford's caring bridge site at www.caringbridge.com  and visit zoiewilleford.

The Kids Shirts are in and they are magnificent! They came out better than I had imagined. The TCS team is gathering items so we can put together gift bags for the children these shirts are ment for. If you have something you would like to contribute to the gift bags, please drop me an email so we can include it. The TCS team hopes to have these gift bags ready for delivery within the month of January. Help us make these bags full of fun and hope!

The TCS page of www.teamcancersucks.com has been claimed and we now own it. As of right now, it directs you to this site, but I am working on getting the TCS page setup independently.

There are new pics of Riki, Rylee, Claire and Cole on the pics pages. Feel free to browse around and save a few to your desktop. Dont forget to take some time to sign Riki's guest book.

In light of the recent success we had with the Garage Sale in October, the TCS team is planning on having another one in March of this year. If you have items you would like to donate to the next TCS garage sale, please hold on to it till i announce a time and place for us to store it while we prepare to host this event. More news to come on this soon...

The company MAPP construction has graciously donated 6 laptop computers to our group. Most dont work or boot up, but two of them do work. I plan on getting those that do work upgraded and cleaned up for our Keep in Touch program. The TCS group will lend our laptops to families while they are remotely located out of town. The laptop will provide each family with the ability to email and internet access while they are confined to a hospital fighting cancer. If you and anyone you know can help me get these laptops up and running or used for parts, please let me know.

December 25th, 2005

Merry Christmas to all of you who visit this site regularly. Watching the hit counter grow gives me more inspiration to continue to do what I do. This is our first Christmas without Riki Jo. But this is not just about us, its about the Hawthornes, the Schexnayders, the Shaddingers, the Duplessis', the George's, the Willeford's and so many more. We are all trying real hard to put on a happy face and enjoy the holiday season. I'm sure I really feel the desire to be happy, its just very hard to do with so much to be sad about. I will keep trying to help make a difference for other local folks and keep the site evolving into something special.

To all of those who have lost loved ones this year, my heart goes out to you. I hope and pray we call all find peace in the holidays and make the heartbreak ease up on us all.

To all of you who are home, visiting loved ones or in the hospital fighting your cancer battle, Merry Christmas to you too.

Merry Christmas Riki, Ed, Kirby, Britnee, Grandpa, Quincy, Zoie

We all love and miss you.

December 13th, 2005

Hello everyone, more news for us to pull together for. This is perfect way to spend $3 bucks and make huge impact. Read the email I got and see if you heart strings are tugged. Not a gimmick, not a hoax. TCS has sent cash in a Christmas card already.

Good morning   I wanted to enlist your help for a friend of mine. She
 is legally blind and wheel chair bound, not to mention other problems.    
 She's about my age and all alone.  Her landlord trying to evict her from  
 her apartment because she doesn't have enough money to pay.  She lives on 
 fix income and its just not enough.  Her social worker ( who is only 22 I 
 think) doesn't help.  I would like for you to post this on your web page  
 in hopes of getting some funds sent to her to help her.  I thought if any 
 one would send a dollar or two it might cheer her up plus help her to     
 realize that there are people who really care.  What a nice Christmas for 
 her to start receiving at such a giving time.  Her name is Patricia Engle 
                           2030 A.S. 18 Street                             
                           2 Back Door                                     
                           Milwaukee, Wisconsin  53204                     
 Thank you for helping all people of all walks of life. Love, Mom

TCS has also sent shirts to Nolan Kane http://www.caringbridge.org/il/jeaniekane/index.htm at St Judes

and Quincy Russell www.caringbridge.org/visit/quincyrussellat St Judes.

Merry Christmas to Quincy, Nolan and Chloe!!!

Chloe and Santa 2005

December 12th, 2005 *** The Guestbook is working!!***

Seasons greeting to you all. I hope you are able to find happiness this Christmas in your own special way. I am trying to cope with our first Christmas without Riki Jo. Even as I type that, it stings so bad. I know I'm not alone in this empty feeling. I have plenty of friends that have experienced the same pain. Many of them you have read about right here on this site. I dont like being the front page for bad news, but it seems that what this site has become. Dont turn to this site for sorrow, but turn to it as a chance to make a difference. I am trying to provide a communication link for those who need help.

Please dont forget to visit little Chloe Forbes at www.caringbridge.com visit the name Chloebug

December 4th, 2005

Hi. You do not know me, but I follow your website and all the good  you do for others. I did not know your sister, but here @ Eatel several people did, which is how I found out about her battle. I wanted to know if you could  help get the word out for a friend of mine. I have attached a flyer that we  will be passing around Gonzales. We are having a benefit for Johnathan  “Bump” Gautreaux to help w/medical expenses. The day before Thanksgiving he had = open heart surgery to replace a couple of heart valves. About a month ago he  got really sick and that is when they discovered the infection in his heart  (on his 30^th b-day). He will have a long recovery ahead of him. Word  of mouth about our benefit would certainly help a lot. Thanks!

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Benefit for Johnathan “Bump” Gautreaux

On November 23, 2005 Bump had to have open heart surgery.  He has been out of work for several months and will be out for several more.  This is a benefit to help with the medical expenses.  Bump is the husband of Alison Brignac Gautreaux and a wonderful step-father to Avery Brignac.

We will be selling Jambalaya dinners before the Christmas Parade on December 11, 2005 at 10:30 a.m.

Until we run out. 

Jambalaya will be cooked by

Lyman Abadie at

913 S. Burnside Ave

In the EATEL parking lot.

The dinners will be $5.00

Please come and show your support!

For more information please contact Julie 803-5544

Or Sadie 715-6128

Cash or Checks accepted

November 21, 2005:

Many thanks to the volunteers for their help for the success of this event. Without that commitment and hard work we would not have been so successful. The sale raised a grand total of $853.21 !!!! That's only $146 bucks short of my goal. So for this to be our first garage sale, I would consider it to be a fantastic start!

But lets thank the real hero's, our volunteers:
Amy Falcon
Jace Babin
Laci Davis
Sheila Bentley
Roland Legnon
Donald Hawthorne
Gemma Hebert
Ashley Lanoux

and lets thank those who donated the items that we sold (those I remember): Lori Russell
Jace Babin
Rhonda King
Debra Savoy
Kelli Buratt
Laci Davis
Amy Falcon
Frank Cagnalotti
Brian St Germain
Sheila Bentley

And finally, I want to thank my Mom, Sheila, for letting us ransack her house for 2 days and litter her drive way with boxes to make this happen. thanks mom for hosting us and letting us do this for all the right reasons.

Please feel free to also thank those who helped in your own way. Only together can we help make a difference for our local young cancer patients.
Together we are the TCS team.


November 15, 2005:

The garage sale is on schedule. Please see the attached image for directions in the Gonzales area.
The Address is 1211 E. Dawn St.,Gonzales, La. 70737

I will be accepting donated items on Wednesday 11/16/05 from 6pm till 8pm at the sale location.

I will also have my cancer shirts on sale as well.

Hope to see you all there....
(See attached file: GARAGESALEDIRECTIONS.pdf)


November 9, 2005:

Hello good friends and family.

Today I was informed of a new local young cancer patient in our midsts. This time it its a real heartbreaker. A little girl name Chloe Forbes was diagnosed with? Acute Myelogenous Leukemia (AML) subtype M4. The exact same type and subtype as Riki Jo amd same type as Kirby. The precious little 3 year old girl and her family have had their worlds flipped upside down.

I am asking each one of you to please visit www.caringbridge.com and visit Chloe's site. Search under "Chloebug".
Please take a moment to sign her guest book.

I have sent an email to her family and I am hoping and praying that she will conquer this AML and we will get a chance to help her do it.

I will have more on Chloe as info comes available.
She is adorable.


November 1, 2005:

Today is All Saints Day. Today we remember those we have lost. Today we visit them at their resting place and bring them flowers and news. Dont forget to take the time to remember and to visit those special people in your life.
I will be visiting Riki and Quincy today. I will also visit Britnee, even though we had never met.
I will visit Kirby this weekend coming and bring her a nice bunch of fresh flowers.

October 26, 2005:

Kenneth Calvin George

My grandfather was a very pound & noble man. I have more respect for him than i can measure.
WWII veteran with the 1st Marine Division. Husband & father of 6 children. Semper Fi!!!

Wake and Funeral Arrangements

Wake:
Thursday October 27th, from 6pm till 9pm @ Ibert Funeral Home, Main Street Franklin La.

Funeral:
Ibert Funeral Home, Friday October 28th, Visitation begins at 8am, Service at 11am, burial to immediately follow.



October 24, 2005:

Today, October 24th, 2005, my Grandfather Kenneth Calvin George of Franklin La. passed away from complications of his returned lung cancer. Riki and I really loved our Grandpa very much. Please put your prayers forward for my family during this rough time. We have had a very hard year and we need all the support of family and friends.