What do you do to support your community?

Mathew Johnson

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What do you do to support your community?

We have been involved with the local Polar Bear Jump for a few years now. A friend of mine that I grew up with started the PB Jump in 1996 where 10 of his friends jumped to raise money for a local church and a kid that was very ill. It was simple, they got sponsors. cut a hole in the ice in mid-February and jumped in.

A few years ago, PWS Inc. paid for and built their website. , we promoted the jump and set up a system for jumpers to get their sponsor packets online. The first year the website was up, their revenue jumped 20K and all of the money was given to several really sick kids in our community, Last year, with over 400 jumpers, the jump raised and distributed over 80,000 dollars to the kids.

This year, as we are rebuilding the website, it has had 1200 pageloads since January 1. One of the sick kids they are raising money for is my 16 year old niece who was diagnosed with cancer - Lymphoma.

This is a cool event and worth supporting.
 

Mathew Johnson

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What do you do to support your community?

We have been involved with the local Polar Bear Jump for a few years now. A friend of mine that I grew up with started the PB Jump in 1996 where 10 of his friends jumped to raise money for a local church and a kid that was very ill. It was simple, they got sponsors. cut a hole in the ice in mid-February and jumped in.

A few years ago, PWS Inc. paid for and built their website. , we promoted the jump and set up a system for jumpers to get their sponsor packets online. The first year the website was up, their revenue jumped 20K and all of the money was given to several really sick kids in our community, Last year, with over 400 jumpers, the jump raised and distributed over 80,000 dollars to the kids.

This year, as we are rebuilding the website, it has had 1200 pageloads since January 1. One of the sick kids they are raising money for is my 16 year old niece who was diagnosed with cancer - Lymphoma.

This is a cool event and worth supporting.

Oh I forgot. the website is www.pbjump.com
 

Douglas Hicks

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Now I see how it works, you tie a rope around the jumpers and drag them into the lake!
And then you do not let them out until they pay. If they do not pay, does the FD use pike poles to keep them in the water until they do pay up?

I buy hole-in-one insurance for this Randy E. Carpenter Memorial Foundation Fallen Firefighter Randy Carpenter & I were shift rounders at the Baker City FD. He moved to Coos Bay and was killed in a fire. He left a couple of kids behind. the foundation is involved in training fire fighters in Oregon, Idaho (a brother is a Captain at the Nampa ID FD) and now in Washington.
 

Mathew Johnson

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Now I see how it works, you tie a rope around the jumpers and drag them into the lake!
And then you do not let them out until they pay. If they do not pay, does the FD use pike poles to keep them in the water until they do pay up?

I buy hole-in-one insurance for this Randy E. Carpenter Memorial Foundation Fallen Firefighter Randy Carpenter & I were shift rounders at the Baker City FD. He moved to Coos Bay and was killed in a fire. He left a couple of kids behind. the foundation is involved in training fire fighters in Oregon, Idaho (a brother is a Captain at the Nampa ID FD) and now in Washington.

Close... The event has gotten large enough that we have had State Police Divers donate their time for rescue if needed. In 14 years the only accident or injury we had was a bystander fell on the ice and fractured her leg.

We have 4 hot tubs set up on shore powered by generators for the jumpers to hop into after their plunge, It is a riot
 

New Look

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We donate our services to non-profits in the area. In 2010 we donated over 30+ hours for 4 different projects/Non-profits in the San Francisco Bay Area........Anthony (Hot Shot) helped us out on one of them.

Good Stuff!!!!
 

underpressure

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Giving Back

Good topic Mathew! We have found that the more we help our local community the more work tends to come back to us. One simple thing we have done to give back in a small way. We donated our services to clean the local playgrounds around our community. It was just a way of thanking the community for our success. You would be amazed of how a small thing like that makes a difference.

FYI: my wife and I did the polar plunge this year in Quincy Massachusetts to raise money for Camp Sunshine. What a great experience.
 

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