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The Good Life Festival: The story of Maddison Page |
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Written by Morgan Kriz
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Tuesday, 06 May 2008 |
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There is a girl who needs your help. Her name is Maddison Page, she has cancer, and she has been given three months to live. She is 21 years-old.
 If you were in her place, a twenty one year-old beautiful and amazing person, how would you decide to spend the last days of your life? How could you whittle down everything you should have had a lifetime to pursue into three short months?
That is the task she has had to face. Harder though is what to which she seems to be deliberately blind: How do you fund that list? Her list is huge, that is to say that it is fantastic in its scope, but she’s too positive a person ever to doubt that she’ll get to do all these amazing things. Squaw Valley Ski Corp, CharitySmith and friends ask that everyone come out for a day of celebration, life, love and hope to raise funds for the very special Maddison Page.
The Good Life Festival: A Benefit for Maddison Page will take place at the Olympic Village Lodge in Squaw Valley at 4 p.m. on Saturday, May 10. The day will be filled with live music and entertainment with Maybelle Music, Vibemosphere, Malia & Mike and Pat McAteer. A raffle will take place for the opportunity to help make the things Maddy has wanted to do in her lifetime a reality, in a small window of time. In lieu of an entry fee, donations are requested at the door and all donations are fully tax deductible.
For more information about Maddison you can check out a blog that documents her progress and friends trying to help her: maddisonpage.blogspot.com/
For more information, visit www.charitysmith.org/endeavors/dsmith/index.html.
Click to http://www.tahoe-world.com/content/view/11226/62/ to read an interview with one of the bands performing at the Good Life Festival on Saturday, May 10.
How to Donate
All donations to Douglas F. Smith Memorial Fund benefiting Maddison Page (a division of CHARITYSMITH) are tax deductible in accordance with federal tax laws. Donations can be made using one of the following secure methods:
Online: Click to www.charitysmith.org for the link.
By mail: send your donation check payable to:
Douglas F. Smith Memorial Fund
c/o CHARITYSMITH Nonprofit Foundation
PO Box 7377, Menlo Park, CA 94025
At Wells Fargo Bank: donations can be deposited directly to the Douglas F. Smith Memorial Fund. For account information, please contact CHARITYSMITH at (800) 276-6546.
Gift Card: Donate in honor of someone and we will mail a gift card directly to your family, friends, or business associates telling them you’ve made a donation in their honor. Make a Donation
Online: donate with a credit card or paypal account by clicking the link below or by calling 800-276-6546.
For more information, visit www.charitysmith.org/endeavors/dsmith/index.html
What we have:
• The Good Life Fesitval: A benefit concert, barbeque and raffle at the Olympic Village Lodge.
• Amazing prizes for the raffle including grand prize heli-ski adventure
• A week in Alaska for Maddy and a friend with Points North Heli-Adventures.
• Fortunate date for the event – May 10 coincides with the last weekend of the 2007/2008 ski season.
• 501(c)3 tax deductible status through CHARITYSMITH.
What is needed:
• Any donations that will help Maddy realize the wishes she’s made for her life: donations of time, money and/or goods for the raffle.
For inquiries regarding donations and Maddison Page, contact Scott Hahn at
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or call (530) 448-0443.
 The Story of Maddison Page
Sierra Sun reporter Julie Brown wrote this article and we wanted readers to get a glimpse of who Maddison Page is:
Maddison Page is the kind of person people want to meet.
Her name would suit a rock star. Her personality fits her name.She’s the life of the party, her friends say. But there’s more to Maddison Page.
Maddy is the person who has followed Winter across the globe to ski season after season, said her boyfriend, Sean Harris. She’s positive, fun, easy going. She’s independent and almost stubborn about it.
Her smile is huge.
Maddison Page has a knack for making people feel good in their own skin, said Scott Hahn, who met Maddy at Squaw Valley’s Employee Housing last fall.
Exuberant with a dash of youth. That’s how Hahn describes Maddy.
“She’s, like, the strongest person,” Hahn said. “She’s so positive and so happy. There needs to be more people like her.”
Maddy bubbles over with personality, said Kelly Nelson, 22. Painting each of her finger nails a different color, she’s spunky.
“She’s so hard to explain,” Nelson said. “She’s so unique in herself. There’s no one like her.”
Maddison Page lives for the good life. She lives a full life. And she probably knows the value of life, which means she must also know that life is not fair. Because this life-loving 21-year-old was diagnosed with terminal cancer.
But guess what Maddy did when Doctors gravely told her there was time-bomb attached to her life — three months, they said.
Maddison Page went heli-skiing in Alaska.
“She’s still so excited about things. I don’t know, she’s not jaded,” Hahn said. “And because she’s so excited about life, it doesn’t give her time to be morbid about death.”
Heli-skiing was at the top, but there’s so much more on Maddy’s to-do list, Hahn said. That includes getting married by Elvis in Las Vegas and traveling to Egypt and Ethiopia.
It also includes staying strong, trying alternative forms of treatment and keeping hope.
The future may not be certain for Maddison Page. But one thing is certain. Beyond painted finger nails and stronger than cancer, friends, family and community will be there to support “the incomparable Maddison Page” and her fight for life.
Because people love Maddison Page. And Maddy inspires people.
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Last Updated ( Tuesday, 06 May 2008 )
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