Help Fight Cancer the Easy Way

This is Robin Renault and her family.  The degree of her awesomeness is pretty up there.  She is married to a SWAT team officer with the RPD.  She is the mother to two charming young men.  She owns two businesses.  And she is the face of cancer.

She has never herself housed the disease, but she has fought no less a fight.  Her sister, Heather, has a husband who has survived cancer, a daughter who has survived cancer, and a daughter whose cancer battle took her home to Glory.  She lost her mother to the sheer dismay and disconsolation of these cancer encounters in the family.

I've known Robin since she was just out of diapers-- since she was a little rock star dancing to Michael Jackson videos.  Her whole life she has had a resolve to her that I admire.  When she puts her mind to something, it gets done, and usually with a degree of excellence to which we all could aspire.

This year, Robin is the Relay for Life coordinator in our region, and she just pulled off that very successful annual event here in Redding last month.  Now, she is on her way to Washington, DC to go talk to lawmakers about the importance of continued cancer research funding.

In my 20's, most of my work career was devoted to making this same kind of outreach to the federal and state governments in an attempt to change forest policy in the Pacific Northwest.  What I learned during those years was that the best way to impact Congress was to put a face to your issue, and be able to articulate in person the impact that legislation will have on communities and on families.  It is the nature of the congressional beast that our legislators simply don't listen to much of anything except what is right in front of them.

We are all fortunate to have someone like Robin willing to be front-and-center for an issue as pervasive as cancer.  It touches almost all of us.  If you are a person who hasn't actually had it, you've probably watched a loved one battle and/or lose the fight to it.

As part of Robin's trip to the Nation's Capital, she has been asked to raise funds via luminaria bags.
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 You know the drill.  Drop a couple stops to Starbucks this week, and send that $10-spot to the cause.  It's a ridiculously small price to pay.  You make the donation, she leaves her children and her two businesses for a week to go lobby for policies that help us all in the fight against cancer.

JUST DO IT.  And when you do, let me know, and I will match your donation, up to a total of $100.