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Next Year

We still have some posts to put up from our first August Nineteenth. This has been so inspiring to me and I'd like to see it become an annual thing.  We can continue working off the existing idea list but here are two new ones:

1) Visit Dairy Queen.  Luke worked there in high school and many times his sisters were on the receiving end of free ice cream :) Pay for the people behind you in honor of Luke.

2) Bring clothes and personal care items to donate to a rehab center.

Feel free to comment or email any other ideas!!

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