Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/04/03/BA5H1IP8ID.DTL#ixzz1IiIspe2w
**Donations for Bryan Stow's medical bills are now being accepted at banks and online. Any bank listed at www.cuswirl.com also will accept donations under account No. 118881.
CommonWealth Central Credit Union: Account No. 118881
PayPal: stowdonations@gmail.com
To Donate Online - go to www.sfpcu.org to place your donation. Please indicate The Bryan Stow Fund. Account # 1377733
To Donate By Mail: Checks should be made out to "The Bryan Stow Fund"
Mail your donation to:
SF Police Credit Union
c/o San Mateo Branch
1495 S. El Camino Real
San Mateo, CA 94402
9 There will be a BBQ/Fundraiser for Bryan Stow today from noon to 8 p.m. at the American Medical Response, 1670 Las Plumas Ave. in San Jose. If you have the time and the heart, I have to guess his family would appreciate any support.
10 Here is a press release by the San Francisco Giants:
The San Francisco Giants today announced that it will dedicate its first home game against the Los Angeles Dodgers in honor of Bryan Stow. Bryan was attacked and suffered critical injuries following the season opener in Los Angeles last week.
The Giants will collect donations at AT&T Park on Monday, April 11 to benefit a fund established to support Bryan and his family. Additionally, on Opening Day, Friday, April 8 the team will pay tribute to him during its pre-game ceremonies.
"Bryan is a father, paramedic and lifelong Giants fan who has dedicated himself to caring for others. Now he needs our support as he fights for his life following this brutal and unconscionable act of violence," said Bill Neukom, Giants Managing General Partner and CEO.
The Giants will partner with Bryan's employer, American Medical Response, to collect donations at the gates and throughout the ballpark for The Bryan Stow Fund. Approximately, 100 of his fellow paramedics will volunteer for this effort. The Giants will make an initial $10,000 contribution to The Bryan Stow Fund and encourage all fans to give what they can. The Giants Community Fund will also hold a silent auction during Monday's game with all proceeds benefiting the The Bryan Stow Fund.
The Bryan Stow Fund has been established through the San Francisco Police Credit Union, specifically serving members of the EMS community.
11 Such a sad story. It's interesting that there are world events to which we all respond, but sometimes a story of one person hits home.
12 And this story has little to do with Giants vs. Dodgers. It has to do with idiocy and how the world has somehow gotten so immune to reality that some idiot would take a simple game seriously enough that he thought it would be a good idea to peacock another human being into a coma, and possible death.
13 Even if it were reversed, and it was a Dodger fan who was unfortunate enough to be in the wrong place at the wrong time, I would have written this same DN.
14 I won't comment further, because the act alone shows where we are as a society in 2011.
15 And so I won't. Help make what I would love to say here talk by giving a contribution to this poor family.
16 Meanwhile we should all learn from it.
17 How sad. How truly sad.
18 As a person who has worked in the sports business for years and years, I've seen plenty of near misses, and always wondered about people who let their obsessions and personal angers enter into other areas of life.
19 Meanwhile, send some support to that family. This touched me, as it did many of us.
20 Support sanity, not insanity.
21 Moving on, Part the First: A delicate attempt at moving from the grim back to some semblance of normalcy: I re-visted that homeless guy yesterday on a visit to Mi Pueblo for some much-needed carne asada.
22 Honestly, I didn't really beeline there to goof on the guy; I was actually quite starved from having STAR testing. You see, some students want to stay in the classroom during lunch, which I naturally allowed.
23 The only challenge with my doing that is that I am chained to the classroom, because we can't leave any of the tests unsupervised. Result: no lunch.
24 Even though I locked the tests up, I knew that the entire STAR test could be considered tainted if I left the room.
25 So after hours of testing, I was unable to get any food in me until at least 2 p.m.
26 Once a person is unable to reach any sort of food, he or she becomes obsessed with food.
27 You know it; I know it.
28 So the end of the day, while shorter in terms of human time, was an eternity in Einsteinian time.
29 And my focus?
30 Admittedly, not on the success of my students, but rather on attaining an authentic taco.
31 We're not talking Taco Bell here, which for years touted itself as "authentic" Mexican food.
32 We're talking down-home, REAL tacos made from meat that has been seasoned and cooked slowly all day. We're talking Eastside, man.
33 At around noon I knew I was headed for Mi Pueblo, which has all sorts of wonderful smells and temptations.
34 I also had this thing about returning to that homeless guy and seeing if he changed his schtick.
35 I once again cruised the back streets and east hills of Sannozay, all lush and green from the recent rains, and felt the breezy Disneyesque fun of flying through the hills in the T000000NDRA. It's a ride through my thoughts, and it works better than the best appetizer on the planet. It seemed all of the houses were cooking the same thing at the same time, because I could smell the sweet smell of Mexican food mingling with hints of springtime jasmine. God's cocktail hour.
36 I drove along, finally hitting the immortal Story road from above, turned left, ambling down from the hills back to civilization, where I saw the Starbuck's, and the homeless guy.
37 I pulled the T000000NDRA into the parking lot, and glanced over, just to goof on the guy.
38 Evidently the "Shitty Advice" sign he held the day before had been put back into his bag of tricks, and he now sported an amazing Cat-in-the-Hat hat that stood straight up, complete with red and white stripes.
39 I wanted to get out and talk with him, but I was WAY too focused on getting some truly authentic carne asada, so that is truly a pleasure deferred.
40 But I must say, this guy is an artist, and a poet. He leaves people alone, and seems to bring charm to the fine art of asking for a little help.
41 I know the reality he must really be going through, but the idealist in me thought for a second, "Hey. This guy probably makes enough off his schtick that he might very well have a place, and a wife, and doesn't have to play by the rules."
42 The realist in me thought that it must be awfully tough to be out there these days trying to make stuff happen.
43 Anyway, I fully intend to approach the guy, because he's giving it his all. And in many ways, he seems almost more peaceful than me. He just might be. He just might.
44 I'm almost afraid to go over and give the guy help because I do see him as someone who stands out, and who isn't afraid to throw a little humor into people's lives.
45 I'll lay low, but he is an interesting cat.
46 I finally did buy a huge bag of carne asada, screamed home, and enjoyed the afternoon doing tacos and kicking it with my daughter Caitlin, proving that God's real.
47 Moving on, Part the Second: Dude.
48 Have we really hit Wednesday already?
49 Grades are due today at 4 p.m. and for the first time in my entire existence I am organized and ready.
50 I don't know what to do with myself.
51 Uh...maybe make time for me, and for my family? We gots a weddin' coming up!
52 Sounds nice.
53 Well, I did stay up last night 'til almost eleven, but at around ten I again pulled out the carne asada I bought at Mi Pueblo and made a coupla small tacos that pulled my entire existence into full focus.
53 Easy, cheap, and one of the best meals of the year, I must say.
54 So I'm actually on the verge of going to sleep for the night. I was able to nap when I got home yesterday afternoon.
55 I believe I'm about to nap right nowwwwwwwwwzzzzzz...<reaching out to the keyboard for one last messagezzzzzz...>
56 <yawns before conking> Have a great day... ; ) <----------sideways winky guy.
57 Peaceout.
~H~
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