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20th August 2011, 17:28
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FYI:
Donations are pouring in from across the country after the story of a local woman fighting bone cancer went viral on the Internet.
Jan Cline was holding yard sales each weekend in her backyard to raise money to pay her medical bills, but the city of Salem shut her down after a neighbor complained. A city ordinance prohibits people from holding more than three yard sales a year. The city has the ordinance because it says in the past people had set up flea-market-type sales on their property.
The story galvanized people who were outraged the city wouldn’t make an exception for Cline.
As of 10 p.m. Thursday, people have donated $16,500 to help Cline, and earlier in the day Salem’s mayor, Anna Peterson, pledged to help her.
KATU’s original story got picked up by the ABC News website and then by others. Additionally, Cline’s friends set up a website and “it just went into overdrive from 7 o’clock on it just hit the gas,” said computer expert and friend Brad Brunhaver.
Donations and messages have been coming in from places like Lubbock, Texas, Jackson, Miss. and San Jose, Calif.
The mayor of Salem said she’s received phone calls and e-mails from around the country. Peterson’s working to get Cline’s yard sale moved to a commercially zoned location so she can hold more and bigger sales.
“Hopefully, also that other people could donate things to her that she can sell at the garage sale,” she said.
Cline said she’s not thrilled at the idea of moving her yard sales. On principle she thinks the city should make an exception to its rules.
But she’s grateful for people like the man who saw $2 candle sticks in KATU’s story and is sending $100 to buy them.
“I am totally amazed at the generosity of people and how quickly it’s growing,” she said.
SOURCE
http://salem.katu.com/news/community-spirit/442505-donations-pour-help-woman-bone-cancer
FYI:
Donations are pouring in from across the country after the story of a local woman fighting bone cancer went viral on the Internet.
Jan Cline was holding yard sales each weekend in her backyard to raise money to pay her medical bills, but the city of Salem shut her down after a neighbor complained. A city ordinance prohibits people from holding more than three yard sales a year. The city has the ordinance because it says in the past people had set up flea-market-type sales on their property.
The story galvanized people who were outraged the city wouldn’t make an exception for Cline.
As of 10 p.m. Thursday, people have donated $16,500 to help Cline, and earlier in the day Salem’s mayor, Anna Peterson, pledged to help her.
KATU’s original story got picked up by the ABC News website and then by others. Additionally, Cline’s friends set up a website and “it just went into overdrive from 7 o’clock on it just hit the gas,” said computer expert and friend Brad Brunhaver.
Donations and messages have been coming in from places like Lubbock, Texas, Jackson, Miss. and San Jose, Calif.
The mayor of Salem said she’s received phone calls and e-mails from around the country. Peterson’s working to get Cline’s yard sale moved to a commercially zoned location so she can hold more and bigger sales.
“Hopefully, also that other people could donate things to her that she can sell at the garage sale,” she said.
Cline said she’s not thrilled at the idea of moving her yard sales. On principle she thinks the city should make an exception to its rules.
But she’s grateful for people like the man who saw $2 candle sticks in KATU’s story and is sending $100 to buy them.
“I am totally amazed at the generosity of people and how quickly it’s growing,” she said.
SOURCE
http://salem.katu.com/news/community-spirit/442505-donations-pour-help-woman-bone-cancer