Julie Weintraub's Hands Across The Bay http://handsacrossthebay.org Helping improve the quality of life for as many Bay Area residents as possible Fri, 19 Apr 2013 22:02:05 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Upcoming Blood Drive- Feb. 9, 2013 http://handsacrossthebay.org/2013/01/upcoming-blood-drive-feb-9-2013/ http://handsacrossthebay.org/2013/01/upcoming-blood-drive-feb-9-2013/#comments Wed, 02 Jan 2013 14:21:39 +0000 admin http://handsacrossthebay.org/?p=1407 LoganHookerBloodDrive

Meet Logan Hooker– He is the bravest and strongest two year old! While doctors fight to diagnose his blood disorder, monthly blood transfusions are keeping him alive. Receive a $50 Gold & Diamind Source gift card with your donation and 25-75% off the entire store from February 8th until February 14th, 2013! EVERY blood type [...]]]> LoganHookerBloodDrive

Meet Logan Hooker–

He is the bravest and strongest two year old! While doctors fight to diagnose his blood disorder, monthly blood transfusions are keeping him alive.

Receive a $50 Gold & Diamind Source gift card with your donation and 25-75% off the entire store from February 8th until February 14th, 2013!

EVERY blood type can help! Even YOURS!

 

CLICK HERE to schedule your appointment for the February 9th blood drive event at Gold & Diamond Source!

]]> http://handsacrossthebay.org/2013/01/upcoming-blood-drive-feb-9-2013/feed/ 0 A Walk for Hope and Help–March 2, 2013 http://handsacrossthebay.org/2013/01/a-walk-for-hope-and-help-march-2-2013/ http://handsacrossthebay.org/2013/01/a-walk-for-hope-and-help-march-2-2013/#comments Tue, 01 Jan 2013 14:37:04 +0000 admin http://handsacrossthebay.org/?p=1416 HandsAcrosstheBay Suicide Prevention

Hands Across the Bay Presents “A Walk for Hope and Help.” This event will take place March 2, 2013 from 10am to 1pm. Check in time is 9am. The event is located at Fort De Soto Park-East Beach, 3500 Pinellas Bayway South, Tierra Verde, Florida 33715. This event is a fundraiser to help make a [...]]]> HandsAcrosstheBay Suicide Prevention

Hands Across the Bay Presents “A Walk for Hope and Help.”

This event will take place March 2, 2013 from 10am to 1pm. Check in time is 9am. The event is located at Fort De Soto Park-East Beach, 3500 Pinellas Bayway South, Tierra Verde, Florida 33715.

This event is a fundraiser to help make a change in the Tampa Bay area…to unite communities in our fight to address suicide, substance abuse, violence, and bullying.

Giving hope, help, and healing to loved ones left behind….

Please Join Us! Together WE can make a difference!

Participation Info:
$30 per person (includes parking & lunch from Carrabba’s)
To help us best reach our goal, a personal goal of $200 per participant is suggested.

To register, please click here.

*Chances to win prizes and a diamond from Gold & Diamond Source.

*Custom individual or team t-shirts available for $13.00 each. Call (321) 972-8879 or e-mail nancys@bigfrog.com and mention “Walk for Hope and Help”

Special Thanks to our Partners:

 

Questions?
Call (727) 573-7720
or e-mail: dawn@handsacrossthebay.com

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Click Here if you would like to be a Corporate Sponsor
Click here (coming soon) if you would like to be a Dancer
Click here (coming soon) if you would like your organization to be considered for our 2013 Beneficiaries

 

Forms will be available January 7th.

More information to follow. Stay tuned!

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Many thanks for everyone who came and supported, volunteered or assisted in making the event such a huge success! MANY MANY thanks to our partner Fred Astaire Dance Studios of Tampa Bay for all of your hard work that made all of our Celebrity Dancers shine! Congratulations to all of our dancers on a job [...]]]> DWTS2012-logo

Many thanks for everyone who came and supported, volunteered or assisted in making the event such a huge success!
MANY MANY thanks to our partner Fred Astaire Dance Studios of Tampa Bay for all of your hard
work that made all of our Celebrity Dancers shine!

Congratulations to all of our dancers on a job well done ~ you all looked amazing and we cannot thank you enough!

Best Male – Bill Gieseking

Best Female – Jaimi Hovan

People’s Choice – George Mantzaris

Most Online Votes – John Sullivan

Runners Up: Orlando Davis, Veronica Cintron, Kristen Levine, Kristine Marshall, John Sullivan, Jaimi Hovan, Corey Rena, Bill Gieseking, Cyndee Dornblaser & George Mantzaris

3rd Place – Emily Filuta

2nd Place – Ashley Glass

Grand Champion – Patrick Brophy

With your help we were able to raise $175,000 and give $15,000 checks to FIVE local charities: Saddle Up Riding Club, Suncoast Animal League, Wheels of Success, Wheelchairs 4 Kids, Pepin Academy
]]> http://handsacrossthebay.org/2012/12/dancing-with-the-stars-2012/feed/ 0 What We Need as of December 2012 http://handsacrossthebay.org/2012/06/what-we-need-as-of-junejuly-2012/ http://handsacrossthebay.org/2012/06/what-we-need-as-of-junejuly-2012/#comments Thu, 28 Jun 2012 09:51:46 +0000 admin http://handsacrossthebay.org/?p=1321 At Hands Across the Bay, we hope to touch as many lives of people in our community as possible through events, other organizations, and the help of our community members who are able to donate items and services or make a financial contribution. Below is an updated list of items we need…. If you or someone you know is able to donate anything on this list, please contact kirsten@handsacrossthebay.com as soon as possible! We appreciate your continued support in helping us help those in our community. Thank you!

Current Needs:

  • Family Law Attorney

  • Gas Cards

  • Walmart Gift Cards

  • Publix Gift Cards

  • Gently used kids clothing (all sizes)

  • Gently used adult clothing (all sizes)

  • Monetary Support (secure online donations can be made through our website here; just click on the heart!)

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Jul 2011 10:31:17 +0000 admin http://handsacrossthebay.org/?p=817 Rays163

Pictured below is Matt from Childrens Cancer Center. Steve and I met him at a Golf Tour, the director Steve Manuel took us on. In speaking to him he mentioned he had never been to a baseball game.. So we wanted to give him the most incredible base ball game ever! As of November of [...]]]> Rays163

Pictured below is Matt from Childrens Cancer Center. Steve and I met him at a Golf Tour, the director Steve Manuel took us on. In speaking to him he mentioned he had never been to a baseball game.. So we wanted to give him the most incredible base ball game ever! As of November of last year this boy was totally normal playing soccer , this is a very aggressive firm of cancer they were not able to operate on.

Thank you to the Vinoy, the Rays, and Ambassador limo service for there incredible support of Hands Across the Bay !!

-Julie

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Recently, Hands Across the Bay was able to help fill a need for Steve, Sue, and Baby Xavier Coller through many generous gifts. Below are some pictures they sent over of Baby Xavier and all of his new things.Thanks to everyone who helped us help Baby Xavier! Check back for more updates soon!]]> Xavier 02-04-2011 (3)

Recently, Hands Across the Bay was able to help fill a need for Steve, Sue, and Baby Xavier Coller through many generous gifts. Below are some pictures they sent over of Baby Xavier and all of his new things.Thanks to everyone who helped us help Baby Xavier! Check back for more updates soon!

Click each thumbnail to view full size images.

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We are supporting a family who is caring for their 4 month old grandson who has been in and out of All Children's Hospital since birth. We have assisted with utilities and clothing for the child but they still need much more!]]> SANYO DIGITAL CAMERA

Hands Across the Bay has dedicated our services and resources to assisting the Coller family with Baby Xavier’s Needs.

Below is Baby Xavier’s story written by his family:

Xavier Coller was born at Tampa General Hospital five weeks premature by emergency C~Section and during that procedure His heart stopped for a short while but the Doctors got His heart going again and Mom & Xavier were fine. This was a scare since Xavier had been diagnosed at approx. four months prior to birth with ‘Tetralogy of Fallot’ of the heart.  Xavier weighed 4 lbs. 11 oz. at birth and was then diagnosed after birth with ‘Congenital Heart Defects’, ‘Tetralogy of Fallot’, ‘IUGR’, ‘IDM’, ‘Holosystolic Murmur’ & ‘Hypospadias’(they say numerous surgeries to follow). Xavier’s Mother was very sick all during the pregnancy so it was hard for her to take good care of Herself and Xavier. She had to take many medications during this time.

The authorities would not let Xavier be discharged from the hospital unless Xavier’s GrandMom (Sue Coller: age 55) and GrandDad (Steve Coller: age 60) agreed to take ‘Legal Custody’ (and plan to adopt) of Xavier which they did without hesitation since Xavier’s Mom could not care for Him. Xavier was discharged on 10/26/2010 at ‘4 lbs. 6 oz’. We are very grateful that this was able to take place quickly.

On 12/10/2010 Xavier had to be taken by ambulance to ‘All Children’s Hospital’ in St Petersburg, FL to have ‘Open Heart Surgery’ right away which they performed on 12/16/2010 after everyone agreed on what all they would do during the surgery. The surgery went very well but later that night Xavier went into ‘Acute Cardiac Arrest’ and his lungs had collapsed so tight nothing would work except ‘mouth to mouth’ which was performed for over ’11 min.’ before Xavier ( and a few of us ) started breathing again.

All Children’s Hospital allowed Xavier’s GrandMom & GrandDad to stay at his bedside 24/7 for the entire month that Xavier was there, which we did. That did put a little hardship on us since bills, etc. at home could not be kept up and we had to wait until Xavier was discharged on 01/07/2011 in order to file for the few benefits that Xavier is entitled to. It was also a little hardship for the past year of going to doctor’s appt. at least twice a week with GrandDad being disabled and gas & all, but this ‘Lil Xavier’ sure is worth it all. We are so Blessed to have the Honor of being able to raise up this little guy, Xavier is such a Blessing to us and we hope we may be a Blessing to Xavier.

Xavier is at home with GrandMom & GrandDad now and we sure did forget how much it took in order to raise a child again since we never thought that we would be doing this but we are very happy we are. There is so much joy a child brings to the home but along with that also comes a whole lot of needs that we never dreamed we would have to worry about supplying at our age and our government programs are little if any help at all.

We are asking for anything that would help us on this journey by any means anyone may have and we pray they may be Blessed as much as we are in being able to raise up Xavier.

We Thank You For Your Time & Consideration From Our Hearts.

From:  Steve, Sue  &  Xavier  Coller

 

 

 

 




 

The following photos were posted here on our website a few months ago (Baby Xavier is now 7 months old):

Picured below, little Xavier a couple days after open heart surgery on 12/18/2010:

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Pictured below, baby Xavier a couple days ago:

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If you would like to help make a difference in this little guy’s life by donating needed items or by making a financial contribution, please visit our homepage here for the most up-to-date list of current needs. Thank you so much for your support! Every little bit helps tremendously!

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