SJGF in West Virginia
SJGF in West Virginia
Country Roads take me home..
​GET INVOLVED WITH SJGF IN WV:
Host a Packing Party for the SJGF Hospital Program
SJGF provides a monthly donation of Parent Care Packages and Little Boxes of Sunshine to CAMC Women and Children's Hospital. This program is only made possible with the help of groups in the community (businesses, churches, clubs, families, schools, etc) who host a 'Party with a Purpose', collect the items and then pack the care packages. SJGF provides the instructions and the tote bags and/or yellow boxes and your group fills them with a whole lotta love!
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Walk-N-Roll & 5K for SJGF
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Our first WV Fundraiser on August 10, 2024 at Valley Park in Hurricane was a huge success! We proved that everyone wins, when every one is included! Volunteers, sponsors, Walk-n-Roll teams and 5K participants came together to celebrate inclusion while helping to raise money and awareness for SJGF! We are already looking forward to our 2025 Walk-N-Roll!
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Chopper Raffle by Pedro & Betty's Big Revival
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Hurricane residents, Frank and Mike are building a 'single backbone, hardtail chopper that will be show bike quality for the eyes and fun chopper riding goodness for the rest of the senses. Every detail of this bike is getting customized!' And then.... they are raffling it off for SJGF! The winner of this Charity Chopper will be announced in AUTUMN 2024! Raffle tickets for the chopper are on sale!
**UPDATE AS OF 10/17 from Frank & Mike**
Here at Pedro and Betty’s big revival we have been pushing very hard to finish the Raindancer Chopper by the October 18, 2024 ticket sales deadline. While we have poured nearly every ounce of blood sweat and tears into this beautiful project, we have run into some situations outside of our control and are still waiting on a few parts to arrive in order to finish. We believe that we are only delayed by just a couple short weeks, but do not have an exact date as of yet. We are looking at this as more of a blessing in disguise as we would much rather do the raffle drawing with the finished bike but also the hidden blessing of giving us a few more weeks of ticket sales to benefit this amazing nonprofit. You can follow more closely at Pedro and Betty’s big revival on Instagram or YouTube for more information. Links & tickets can be found here:
WHY WV?
For a very special reason, WV is the home to the first SJGF chapter outside of VA. Team WV, was created to honor Julia’s life and legacy in a place that is near and dear to the Knight family. Although our Original Raindancer, Julia Grace, lived most of her 12 years in Bristow, Virginia, she was born in West Virginia and lived in Hurricane, WV until her family moved to Northern Virginia when she was two years old.
Julia's mom and SJGF Founder, Sara Knight (Hoover) says Julia's personality showed her connection to their home state because she had a little bit of sweet, yet sassy, ‘mountain momma’ running through her veins. ​
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"One of her favorite places to go was our family cabin in Pocahontas County. She loved being outside in the fresh mountain air during the day, going for walks, and spending time with her family around the campfire at night. She loved having her family all together in one place. After Julia passed away, I knew that the beauty, and peace and quiet of those same mountains was where she belonged. She deserved the most beautiful and most peaceful resting place there was, and well, West Virginia is almost heaven,” says Julia's mom.
Julia was laid to rest near their family cabin in the beautiful mountains of Pocahontas County, West Virginia.
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Team WV is based in Hurricane, WV and serves Raindancer families in the Metro Valley, Central WV, Mid-Ohio Valley and Pocahontas County. In 2023, SJGF rolled out the SJGF Hospital Program to provide care packages to parents whose children are being cared for at CAMC Women and Children's Hospital in Charleston, WV, and in 2024 we began providing our Sunshine Boxes to children being cared for at CAMC as well. Founder, Sara Knight makes frequent trips to WV for SJGF and is available for meetings and speaking with groups during her visits.