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Greetings again
to all of our supporters and families of the Columbine community and
beyond. Many great things have been happening at LFC since our last
newsletter.
Most importantly, LFC has finally had the opportunity to begin the process
of giving back to the Columbine community. Although we are still in
the fundraising mode, we were presented with the chance to help out
in several areas with The Gathering, this first time event of its kind
ever. With the kind help of Pegasus Travel in Denver, we were able to
cover the costs for the Columbine families' flights to this wonderful
event. I invite you to read our lead story and learn more about the
positive effect it had on everyone who attended and how a new annual
tradition may have been forged.
Our CDs continue to sell around the country thanks to the Musicland
Corporation which has played an important role with our project. We
thank them very much for their generosity and continued support. Locally,
we have added a couple of more stores who jumped at the opportunity
to sell our benefit CD and are doing well with sales. Although the Denver
market is somewhat saturated from Columbine related products at present,
CD sales are still moving along with some stores doing better than others.
We haven't received the majority of our receivables yet from several
of our store chains. We look forward to the results on national and
local sales over the next several weeks.
Another area which has kept us on the edge of our seats is the awaited
release of Rachel Lampa's CD with Word Entertainment titled "I
Live For You" which made its debut on August 1st and her title
cut remains at the top of the charts. All of the songs are beautifully
written by some of the best Christian songwriters around and performed
by this extraordinary young lady we believe will go on to do some wonderful
things in the music world. We highly recommend you pick up a copy of
her awesome CD and let it speak to your heart and touch your soul.
We are also happy to announce that we have entered "Lullaby for
Columbine, Love Endures" into the 43rd Grammy Awards for 2001.
While the music world is very competitive and that there will be many
outstanding entrants into next year's Grammy Awards, we feel confident
that we have meaningful merit to participate in it. One of the qualifying
areas is in engineering where we have such talented individuals as Bruce
C. Marshall and Robert Berglund who did an awesome job with the studio
and on-location recordings for some of the original songs on our CD.
Considering that our gifted mastering engineer, David Glasser has also
already taken home four of the golden statuettes and has forty-five
nominations to his name, gives us a little faith in at least a possible
nomination. As my dad always use to say, "You have to aim high
if you want to get anywhere!" Our fingers are crossed and our hands
are folded.
As always, thank you for your support for the many victims who have
years of rehabilitation and related expenses to incur which, after they
turn twenty-one, their insurance will no longer cover. This is the primary
reason why we did this CD and we ask for your prayers that we are able
meet our goal of raising all or part of the five-million dollars that
has been projected these brave young people will need. Please make sure
every friend you have across the country owns a copy!
Thanks, God bless, and
enjoy this special issue of LFCNews on The Gathering.
Michael Tamburello
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2000 The Lullaby for Columbine Project.
All Rights Reserved.
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