Join Matt Auker at the Orlando, FL Walk to Defeat ALS on Saturday, March 12th

Dear Mattauker1., First, if you have already donated or signed up for the 2016 Central Florida Walk to Defeat ALS, thank you so much. Second, let me apologize in advance if you are receiving multiple copies of this email! The 2016 walk will be held at Lake Eola, Downtown Orlando on Saturday, March 12th. As you probably know, I am walking in memory of my late wife, Nina. Nina passed away on September 7, 2013 after a 4 1/2 year battle with the terrible Lou Gehrig's Disease also known as ALS. How can you help? Two ways: Sign up to be a walker on the NINA'S HIGH ROLLERS team. Just go to my walk page: http://web.alsa.org/goto/MattAuker2016 Press the JOIN MATTHEW'S TEAM! Button and you will be taken to the page to join the team. Sponsor me for the walk. Just go to my walk page: http://web.alsa.org/goto/MattAuker2016 Press the red DONATE TO MATTHEW! Button and you will be taken to the page to donate to my walk efforts. You can sponsor / donate online using a credit card OR Write out a donation check made payable to the "The ALS Association Florida Chapter" or "ALSAFL" and mail it to me at: Matt Auker Comfort Keepers PO Box 163096 Altamonte Springs, FL 32716-3096 Thanks again for considering participation in the 2016 walk. Matt Auker Cell: 407-466-8290 Office: 866-871-5540 or 407-774-4457 Click here to visit my personal page. If the text above does not appear as a clickable link, you can visit the web address: http://webfl.alsa.org/site/TR?px=6996570&pg=personal&fr_id=11514&et=33WF7aK-1ZYLxN_V0xrzow&s_tafId=289500 Click here to view the team page for Nina's High Rollers If the text above does not appear as a clickable link, you can visit the web address: http://webfl.alsa.org/site/TR?team_id=345654&pg=team&fr_id=11514&et=aOm9wJE736KrfEe__ods4A&s_tafId=289500 If you no longer wish to receive email messages sent from your friends on behalf of this organization, please click here or paste this URL into your browser: http://webfl.alsa.org/site/TellFriendOpt?action=optout&toe=4e130ef60236f0bfe501baad2832651f3fbc43bae904607c9f4ae40619ef762a Our mission is to lead the fight to treat and cure ALS through global research and nationwide advocacy while also empowering people with Lou Gehrig’s Disease and their families to live fuller lives by providing them with compassionate care and support. The ALS Association Florida Chapter 3242 Parkside Center Circle Tampa, FL 33619, ©2014 ALS Association | Walk to Defeat ALS® Contact Us | Update Email Preferences

The Children Need You! FTK

Hi my name is Tyler Auker and I am the Dance Marathon representative for my fraternity, Sigma Chi, at the University of Florida. Dance Marathon is a 26.2 hour long event and it is all in support of the Children's Miracle Network. 

http://childrensmiraclenetworkhospitals.org/About

Each year more than 800 students stay awake and on their feet for the entire 26.2 hours to raise money and awareness for CMN.

This is the first year that Sigma Chi has ever participated in Dance Marathon and we need your help! In order to have our members participate in the 26.2 hour long main event my fraternity must raise enough money to sponsor these individuals. Donations of any and all sizes will help. All of these donations go strait to the hospitals and toward helping children in need. Just remember, it's For The Kids, or FTK as we like to say. We appreciate your support!!! My personal page for donations can be found below.

http://floridadm.kintera.org/tylerauker

For all the right reasons,

Tyler Auker

Support Nina Lamanno - Auker and Matt Auker - ALS Walk - Orlando - Friday, April 16th

First of all, I apologize if you have received more than one email from me about our upcoming walk to raise funds for the ALS Association. You are receiving this email for one or more of several reasons: * You are a friend or a family member of Nina Lamanno-Auker or Matt Auker * You have done business with or know Comfort Keepers of Altamonte Springs * You know either Nina or Matt from: Spring Valley, St. Mary Magdalen, Florida Hospital, Central Florida Regional Hospital, Porter Paints, Louisville, Orlando, Davidson College, USF, Bishop Moore Catholic High School or UCF. ALS is also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease and Nina, my lovely wife of 24 1/2 years has it.  There is no cure. No one knows why an ALS patient's nerves die and their muscles atrophy.  Some people live 20 years with ALS, others are gone within a year of diagnosis.  There is only 1 medication that is approved for treating ALS and it is estimated that it lengthens the life of the ALS patient by about 3 months.  5,000 people a year in the US are diagnosed with ALS and about 30,000 people have it right now. You can read more about Nina on my personal page at:  web.alsa.org/goto/mauker  I am walking with many of Nina's friends in the ALS Walk on Friday night, April 16th around Lake Eola in downtown Orlando.  Last April, about 200 friends of Nina’s gathered for the 2009 ALS Orlando walk.  You can see some of the pictures here: picasaweb.google.com/mattauker/ALSWalkOrlando2009?feat=directlink.     Dave Wheeler at Bishop Moore Catholic High School even rescheduled a varsity baseball game so that there wouldn’t be any conflicts for many of our friends.  Our son Tyler plays on the varsity baseball team at Bishop Moore. I am asking for your help! Sign up to walk with me on April 16th.  You can click on the NINA’S HIGH ROLLERS link below.  If you sign up, we ask that you raise $ 25 in donations from other people to sponsor your walk. If you walked last year, please wear your teal NINA’S HIGH ROLLERS t-shirt.  If you need a t-shirt contact me or Cynthia Dades and we’ll make sure you get one. ** If you can't walk, sponsor me by clicking on my personal page below or sponsor any of the other walkers signed up to walk on the NINA’S HIGH ROLLERS team. Please understand that any size donation is very much appreciated. ** My ALS personal page is set up to accept credit card donations.  If you’d rather donate using a check, make it payable to The ALS Association Florida Chapter  and mail the check to: Matt Auker Comfort Keepers 650 Douglas Ave., Suite 1027 Altamonte Springs, FL 32714 Feel free to contact me on my cell phone:  (407) 466-8290. I also do text messages on my cell.  Email me at m@auker.com or altamonte@comfortkeepers.com  twitter: @mattauker, facebook: Matt Auker Cynthia Dades is the captain of the NINA’S HIGH ROLLERS team.  She can be reached at (407) 257-7799 or dades5@embarqmail.com   Thanks for reading this message and hopefully we will see you at the walk Friday evening, April 16th. Click here to visit my personal page. If the text above does not appear as a clickable link, you can visit the web address: http://web.alsa.org/site/TR/Walks/FloridaWalk?px=2202186&pg=personal&fr_id=6236&et=GqaMwJRkT4h5Lmgy1wtTsg..&s_tafId=103067 Click here to view the team page for Nina's High Rollers If the text above does not appear as a clickable link, you can visit the web address: http://web.alsa.org/site/TR/Walks/FloridaWalk?team_id=161240&pg=team&fr_id=6236&et=g9nYJGv9jpxRCOY2qJnf2A..&s_tafId=103067 If you no longer wish to receive email messages sent from your friends on behalf of this organization, please click here or paste this URL into your browser: http://web.alsa.org/site/TellFriendOpt?action=optout&toe=4e130ef60236f0bfe501baad2832651f3fbc43bae904607c9f4ae40619ef762a

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Doing what it takes!

Tonight, we needed an employee to go to a new client's home. The caregiver had never been there before and, even though it was less than 4 miles from her home, she did not know how to get there and did not think that she would be able to find the home after dark. Of course, I said I would get her there. So, I attended my daughter's high school varsity volleyball game for about 23 minutes and then left to get our caregiver to our client's home.

I went to the caregiver's home and had her follow me to the client's home. Because of the way we arrived and the position of the house, I drove past the client's home, went to the corner and made a u-turn, drove about 200 yards and then parked in front of the house. Up to the time of the u-turn, my employee was right behind me, she saw me make the u-turn.

Well, I stood next to my car waiting for my employee to park behind me. After about 5 minutes, I drove back to the spot I made the u-turn and found my employee, on the phone crying to my scheduling coordinator about me leaving her in the middle of the street.

Needless to say, I couldn't understand all of this; how could she loose me so easily? Oh well, all is well, the caregiver is at our client's home and I'm home now.

Comfort Keepers Staff Meetings

We have regularly scheduled Staff Meetings with all of our Comfort Keepers. Our third quarter meeting was sheduled for last night, Thurs 8/21 but Tropical Storm Fay had other ideas...the weather was horrible so we postponed the meeting. Our speaker was scheduled to be a great friend of mine, Jayne Haftmann, RN. She is a Vitas Innovative Hospice representative and her topic is Taking Care of Me - Managing Stress While Providing Quality Care. It will be a great program for our great Comfort Keepers when we get to reschedule it.

Here's pictures from our last meeting

Tyler's Confirmation

Mandy's Prom Pictures