The Twelve Dollar Experiment

Everyone loves stories about underdogs. They're classics! Shire-raised Frodo destroying the ring, little orphan Harry Potter defeating Voldemort, non-militarily trained David cutting Goliath's head off, and on and on and on! We love hearing about how the little people doing little things accomplished something huge! Why do we love hearing these stories? Well because we are little people. At least the vast majority of us are. We don't have any real claims to fame. We're fathers, mothers, retail employees, office workers, graduate students, teachers and friends. None of us sets world records or competes in Olympic level athletic competitions. We're pretty ordinary. That's what this new fundraising initiative is meant to celebrate...

There are about 200 of us who have liked my Wes Across America Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/WesAcrossAmerica). If every person on there were to donate $1.50 per month for the next 8 months to my cross-country fundraising trip next year, that would get me well on the way to affording this trip. Since it's hard to remember to send $1.50 every month and since $12 isn't really that much money, I'm challenging everyone in the group to give $12 sometime during September to my traveling fund. This way, I can focus all my fundraising efforts on the point of this trip: ALS research! If you want to give more than $12, that's fine! I'm planning to give all excess money to my good friends, the Trasks (whose husband/father Paul has been struggling with Lou Gehrig's for the past 6 years).

So that's it! Go to www.paypal.com and send $12 to me at wrosselet@yahoo.com or mail a check or money order for $12 to:

Wesley Rosselet
10 Lafayette St. Apt. H
Hanover, PA 17331

If you don't have $12 upfront, get a jar or container and simply put loose change in it at the end of each day. If you use cash enough, I can guarantee you'll have a good bit more than $12 at the end of the month. If you live in Hanover, you can even take that jar or container to the Woodforest National Bank inside the North Hanover Walmart and tell them you'd like to deposit it into Wesley Rosselet's fundraising savings account, the special account I opened just to raise funds for this trip.

If you are hesitating because you think of this as helping to send me on vacation, remember that I'm going to be living on the edge during this trip. If I get just $30 towards ALS research in each place I stay during this trip, everything will be more or less paid for! You're not sending me on vacation so much as helping me reach a wider audience. And don't be fooled! The ALS Ice Bucket Challenge may have raised a lot of money and awareness but I guarantee that there are a LOT of people who still don't know what Lou Gehrig's Disease is. Thanks everybody!