After spending the past 20 years paddling from Dover to France, it is time to venture into new waters, while helping some special people.
Soon, I will be traveling with my A-team to Scotland to swim the length of the famous Loch Ness.
As always, I try to help a Foundation raise funds and awareness and I thank you for interest and support.
I am deeply troubled with the thought of homeless individuals, especially in our US Veteran population.
That is why I am teaming up with our Connecticut-based “Homes for the Brave”. Can you imagine not having a place to call home?
Here is more information about Homes for the Brave! -Facebook pages –
https://www.facebook.com/pages/ABRIHomes-for-the-Brave/199613606735630?ref=hl- Annual Appeal with more information about our financials and programs-
http://www.homesforthebrave.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/HFTB-2014-Annual-Report-FINAL.pdf-Check donations can be mailed to the following address:
Homes for the Brave
655 Park Avenue
Bridgeport, CT 06604
- Donations can be made online as well:
https://homesforthebrave.isecuresites.com/products/index.php?type=1110 Please write “Loch Ness Swim/Marcy” to track your donation.
I will always be dedicating my swimming to all those battling cancer and in the memory of 4 special people in my life. Cancer first hit my family when I was young. My grand-aunt Eleanor Kersavage, passed away with uterine cancer and my Auntie Bea Halchak battled with brain cancer.
On January 1, 2002, our LEHY family lost Nikki Giampolo to bone cancer, just turning 16 years old. Her spirit still lives on in our East Hartford swim team.
In July of 2009, my brother-in-law, Gregory Allen Urban, who passed away, after a valient battle with lung cancer. I can see him now, talking about cars and projects around the house, music and his family.
I know Aunties, Eleanor and Bea, Nikki, Greg and all the angels will help me CUT through all this water this summer.
The
St. Vincent's Medical Center Foundation, based in Bridgeport, CT provides financial support for the needs that Health insurance companies don't cover, in addition to providing affordable cancer screening, wigs, medication and other things to make life easier for those suffering with cancer and their families.
Please make a donation, and thank you.
Online donations can be made at: http://give.stvincents.orgor you can send a check through the post to:
Swim Across the SoundSt. Vincent's Medical Center Foundation
2800 Main Street
Bridgeport, CT 06606
(203)576-5451
Thank you so very much, peace and good health to all.
Wow!!!!!!!!! Mike Donnelly
ReplyDeleteI heard about Marcy Macdonald over the years - my good friend Peter Jurzynski often spoke of her adventures & I have some appreciation of her talents having done some open water swimming myself. Being part of the boat crew for her adventure was something special. It is hard to describe the enormity of the challenge. Perhaps the best way to appreciate Marcy's tenacity was when we got to Dungeness East which is a commercial port with the oil refinery late at night. She'd already swam for the best par of a day or more - maybe 25 hours if I recall. The tide was flowing hard in the wrong direction & Marcy was given a stark choice - swim 400 yards to shore to claim the swim which would still be the furthest solo crossing route - or hold position against the tide until it changed & then finish 12 more miles to the Belgian border. Marcy chose to continue & the rest as they say is history. It was something special to witness first hand. Well done Marcy.
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