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alfreda89 ([personal profile] alfreda89) wrote2009-07-15 05:23 pm
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Fundraiser for Aaron Allston July 19th -- also PayPal & checks appreciated!

Austin, TX --

A fundraiser and auction to benefit the Aaron Allston Donation Fund will be held on Sunday, July 19, from 1-5 p.m. at Arbor A in San Gabriel Park, 445 E. Morrow, Georgetown, TX. The Aaron Allston Donation Fund is a medical fund established by his friends to help Mr. Allston, an internationally known science fiction writer and author of several Star Wars novels, with large medical expenses recently incurred as a result of emergency bypass surgery. Mr. Allston is a long-time resident of Central Texas.

The link with info about the auction time and place, and the addresses for check and PayPal donations, is
here.


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I sometimes think I'm the only single writer I know who has personal health insurance. (I had to hunt it down, tag it and keep a GPA on it to hang onto it, but there you are...) And for what it costs, I know why. If you can, buy one less $5 item this week and then pass this message along. If everyone who sees it gives a few bucks, it will at least dent the mound of medical bills Aaron has amassed.

[identity profile] sheilagh.livejournal.com 2009-07-16 12:44 am (UTC)(link)
do you know the people setting up the paypal link? it is possible, although I do not know how, to set paypal buttons up as "donation" links, which as far as I know means they don't get charged a pass through fee.

See an example of such button a page down on this link:
http://pecunium.livejournal.com/428770.html

[identity profile] alfreda89.livejournal.com 2009-07-16 12:50 am (UTC)(link)
I would think the people setting this up know that -- one is a web designer, both vocation and avocation. But I'll try to remember to remind them, good catch --