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Keith
Urban’s Max it Out For Meningitis is an event to raise
awareness about meningitis. It also raises funds for
furthering meningitis research – A proactive approach in an effort
to prevent others from contracting the disease. All proceeds
will go directly to a highly successful world-renowned physician
for her research on meningitis and meningitis vaccinations. This
physician resides in Nashville and performs
her research at the Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt.
Event is inspired by Bacterial Meningitis survivor Max Royka.
J A
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Keith
Urban's 3rd annual Max it Out benefit concert for
spinal meningitis research on January 22, 2005 raised over
270,000 dollars!
Artists performing
at the benefit, held at Nashville's Rocketown included:
Keith Urban, Radney
Foster, Katrina
Elam, Richard
Marx, Tim
Mcgraw,
Faith Hill, Montgomery
Gentry, LeeAnn
Womack, LeAnn
Rimes, Carolyn
Dawn Johnson, and Wynonna
Judd.
At one point
in the benefit, Keith personally called the winner of a custom
357 chopper motorcycle.
When
he asked for the woman who won, her husband answered answered
and apparently didn't like another man calling his lady
and hung up on Urban, reports countrynation.com. The second lady
he called answered the phone and was thrilled by the prize.
With any luck the wife of the man that hung up on will
never
find out he hung up on Keith Urban and the chance to win
a cool ride, otherwise he'll be toast.
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V E N T *
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TBD... sometime in 2006
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Nashville, Tennessee
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Main Event: A concert and live auction with a celebrity singer
as our host.
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eBay Auction ::
In the months leading up to the main event, there will be
lots of one-of-a-kind celebrity memorabilia, concert tickets, posters, cd’s
and much more. Go to www.maxitout.org for
the latest news.
Sponsor's Party :: At this party
the host will play special songs along with celebrity guests!
There will cocktails,
a silent auction, and dinner.
C
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$125 general admission. Prices subject
to change.
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Jill Royka
info@maxitout.org
www.maxitout.org
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We
raised $270,000 at our last event and we're looking to beat
it! To make a donation towards our cause for meningitis related
research,
download our donation form at www.maxitout.org.
For
those who have offered to make a donation to Max Alan Royka
himself,
please
send a check made out to The
Royka's to the address below. We
have established a special needs trust for Max
to help
with his future.
To all that contribute,
no matter how much, we send a sincere and heart-felt
thank you! You're making a difference!
Royka's
InnerStrength LLC • P.O. Box 218121 • Nashville,
TN 37221-0722
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N S P I R A T I O N
Our son, Max, was born a perfectly healthy baby.
When he was 6 weeks old, he caught a "bug" that turned into meningitis.
Meningitis is a disease where a germ gets into the spinal cord
and brain. Any germ can cause meningitis. It is unknown why the
body allows the germ to pass into the spinal fluid and another
does not. Max’s immune system was simply too immature and
vulnerable to fight the vicious bacteria. He spent 7 weeks at the
Vanderbilt Children’s Hospital. He is now 3 years old left
with visual impairments, brain damage, diabetes insipidus, has
a feeding tube and extremely delayed motor skills.
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We are hoping to reach other families in the area
who have been traumatized by meningitis, in hopes
they
will take
part in helping
with our events. If you know of anyone that may
be interested in teaming up to support our cause,
please
pass this
web site along
to him or her or have them call us! Together,
we can make a big difference.
Learn more
at the news page of KeithUrban.net
*Specifics to be announced. All future concert information
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