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A good friend, Jeff Venning lost everything on Christmas this year to a devastating fire.

Jeff's worked his ass off for everything he had, only to have a random event (a fire) destroy it all. His house, his belongings, his pictures, his collections, even his cat (Mourice): all gone.To compound the problem, Jeff was just laid off from his job at Curtis Screw in Buffalo a couple weeks ago because of the economic slowdown.

So, life's thrown my friend a "double whammy" of bad luck. What can we do?

There's not much any of us can really do to help here, but to pitch in cash and maybe some needed items. (We don't know what Jeff needs yet, but I'm sure it's a lot.)

I'm not one to donate a lot of $ to charity organizations. There's just too much lost in the bureaucracy of organization. This is a case where we can donate directly to one person and make a difference in that persons life. We don't need to raise a million bucks, just enough to replace one nice guy's stuff. 

Every penny donated here will go directly to Jeff to rebuild what was lost.

Read more about Jeff's situation and DONATE to help Jeff out! http://helpjeffout.blogspot.com/