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11th Annual Joe Upshaw Golf Classic PICS!
Golf outing pics are finally posted to Facebook, and they are pretty darn funny. Here is one of my very favorites, below. Thanks to everyone who helped us raise $33,000 this year at the Joe Upshaw Golf Classic and KFA Benefit & Silent Auction. Love to you all!
design a logo for UP
Exciting news! We have named the middle school program, and it will be called UP. Two letters, short and sweet. What is this middle school program, you ask? Head over to the newly formed UP page of the site for a detailed description, but here is a brief summary: Keep Friendship Alive will launch a modern and unconventional substance abuse prevention program next year for middle schoolers nationwide. College students will serve as role models by visiting their local middle schools [...]
front page news
Thanks for the shout-out, Laguna Beach! Check out my front page story: November 17, 2011 | By Cindy Frazier When Laguna Beach resident Erica Upshaw was rear-ended on South Coast Highway at Nyes Place in a seven-car pileup Sept. 22, she woke up in the hospital saying “Joey.” She was lucky to be alive and calling out her dead brother’s name after a drunk driver, who died days later at the hospital, hit her Mini Cooper at 50 mph. The [...]
on the road again
I have officially returned to my Fall tour, and I started things off with a bang Monday night by speaking to 2,500 students at Michigan State. I’m getting a little choked up just thinking about it….I truly loved every second, especially the standing O! I have to admit, I was a little apprehensive to get back into the swing of things. My traveling / speaking schedule is nutso, and I’ve been through the ringer these past few weeks: physically, emotionally, [...]
KFA’s future
Today is the 11th Annual Joe Upshaw Golf Classic benefiting Keep Friendship Alive in Columbus, OH. I am SO BUMMED I’m not there today. But, since I can barely move my head, I imagine it would be tough to take a car ride to the airport much less fly across the country. Rest is in order, and I’m lucky to be alive. (View the below article regarding my car accident last week…I was in the Mini Cooper.) Please read what [...]
