‘Twas the Night Before Freaky Fat Loss”…

I can barely contain myself. We are officially one day away from 2009 “Freaky Fat Loss” Boot Camp, and I am like a kid on Christmas Eve…We are about to take part in the biggest fitness extravaganza this city has ever seen! And what better organization to do it for than United Way of Washington County. I’ve personally benefitted from the United Way’s work, and truly believe that this organization is essential to not only Washington County, but to the entire nation.

From summers in the Boys and Girls Clubs camps, to the time I spent in the YMCA’s programs and activities I was kept away from the kind of trouble that some of the boys in my own family got into. When crack hit Hagerstown, in the late ’80s, a lot of the guys from my neighborhood were vanishing on a weekly basis. Some were arrested, some were killed, all in the name of fast money and reputation. I was kept out of that mess due to the combination of 2 things: a mother who kapt me busy, and locations to stay busy at.

United Way helps keep places open that keep kids out of the various avenues of trouble that are increasingly available today. If it weren’t for the Boys and Girls Clubs, and the YMCA, both of which are United Way Agencies, I don’t know if i would be sitting here talking to you right now. S i guess I owe them my life, and my career. “Freaky Fat Loss” Boot Camp is my small way of giving back what United Way invested in me for over a decade.

Kat and i hope to see you in the morning, but if you can’t come (slacker), please consider donating to United Way of Washington County, to make sure that they can continue to do the good work they do for so many people here where we live.

-c