Matt Flinchbaugh can’t protect against and won’t stop.
Several days after the owner of Flinchy’s restaurant in Lesser Allen Township was recognized for raising a record-breaking $277,175 for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society Central Pennsylvania Chapter’s 2016 Harrisburg Man & Woman of the Year Campaign, Flinchbaugh discovered of news that prompted your man to go on his fight.
Ashlyn Brysiak, 8, of East Pennsboro Township, was just recently diagnosed along with acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia.
A girl living in his East Pennsboro Township neighborhood of Floribunda, Ashlyn Brysiak, 8, had been diagnosed along with acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia
“It shows that it hits close to home,” Flinchbaugh said.
On Sunday, June 26 he’s hosting a reward auto wash. The All of in for Ashlyn auto Wash will certainly be held 9 a.m.-noon at Kennedy Catalano Advisors KFG LLC, 3806 Market St. in Camp Hill.
Flinchbaugh said he hopes to enhance sufficient your hard earned cash by the June 30th deadline to fund a study grant in Ashlyn’s name. The grant would certainly accelerate clinical trials and study for blood cancers.
He said he is $2,000 far from that goal, which would certainly leading out his complete fundraising for LLS at $300,000.
Through the 10-week LLS Man of the Year campaign, Flinchbaugh funded 5 grants. They are named after Rebekah LeeAnn Tuckey; his sister, Christine Lynn Messner; Carol Ann Convery and Taiven Matthew Schopf. (Grants are raised in $50,000 increments.)
He said he was encouraged to do the campaign after his son, Dawson, 2, became sick along with pneumonia in January throughout a family vacation in Punta Cana.
“It was horrible. It was love a knife in the chest. Yet we knew exactly how blessed we were. He just had pneumonia, not cancer. It gave me a brief flash of just what it would certainly be love if my son had cancer,” Flinchbaugh said, earlier this spring.
He has actually used the hashtag #cantstopwontstop about social media throughout the campaign.
For the past couple of weeks, Flinchbaugh said has actually raised your hard earned cash for Ashlyn’s grant through fundraisers, including a jewelry drawing and donation of proceeds from meals sales at Flinchy’s. In addition, Flinchbaugh has actually filled his neighborhood along with orange and blue ribbons to insight prove to sustain for the little girl.
“He’s taking a placement in the community and making use of it to serve others,” said Mike McCauley of Lesser Allen Township.
McCauley’s son, Lachlan, 14, is a cancer survivor that had been diagnosed at the age of 4. In the past, Flinchbaugh has actually assisted McCauley along with a reward golf tournament.
McCauley described Flinchbaugh as the 2 dedicated and real as he enhances your hard earned cash towards LLS.
“I believe that’s where the energy comes from – people observe it and hope to be portion of it,” McCarthy added.
