To help fight ALS, logon to www.goodsearch.com; at the prompt, "Who do you Goodsearch for?" type:  Jim Catfish Hunter Chapter ALS Association.   Goodsearch will donate $0.01 toward our state chapter for each search.   Note:  Goodsearch is powered by Yahoo!   (The "Catfish" Chapter serves ALS patients and their families in North Carolina:  www.CatfishChapter.org)

Goodsearch also operates GoodShop, at http://www.goodsearch.com/goodshop.aspx,  Over 700 stores donate a portion of each online purchase to the Catfish Hunter Chapter.  Some retailers that contribute:  Amazon.com; Barnes&Noble.com; eBay; LLBean.

Shop at Food Lion!  Food Lion is now offering benefits to supporters of the ALS Association! Every time you shop at Food Lion and use your Food Lion MVP card, a portion of your purchase will be donated to the ALS Association.  Logon to http://www.lionshopandshare.com/index.php and enter the code: 26062 and click on "Submit."  Next screen, complete the information for your MVP card number, name, address, and telephone number and click on "Submit."   

iGive.com donates a portion of each online sale at over 700 stores to the Catfish Chapter:  http://www.igive.com/welcome/warmwelcome.cfm?c=38533  Some retailers that contribute:  Lands End; Home Depot; Gap.com

Amazon.com will donate a small commission to ALS Ride for Life for each online purchase at http://www.rideforlife.com/support/shop_to_stop_als.html

Purchase a copy of "Irene's Night," by Tom Forbes.  It's a "chronicle of a woman's journey with ALS," and more.  Tom is a member of our Down East ALS Support Group.  He and the publisher, Tortuga Pines, will donate $10.00 of each purchase ($22.95, plus $4.00 shipping) to the ALS Association--Jim "Catfish" Hunter Chapter. 

Purchase a copy of "Cooking Rites & Rituals:  A Guy's Guide to Good Eats."  Order from St. Timothy's Episcopal Church, 107 Louis St., Greenville NC 27858; 252-355-2125; $8.00.  A portion of the proceeds will be donated to the ALS Association in memory of Rick Poucher, a charter member of the Brotherhood of St. Andrew at St. Timothy's parish.

Note:  The Down East ALS Support Group does not necessarily endorse these endeavors; however. . . .

"This Web site is sponsored by St. Timothy's Episcopal Church, Greenville, N.C., in memory of Rick Poucher, who passed away from ALS in 2006."  

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