Mary's Climbers

I thought I was finished with any more references to the old Heard Bank building.

Back on November 29, 2008, I told about how the old bank changed hands, how it fit in Jacksonville’s history, what happened to some of the columns from the old building, how a new Bank of America tower replaced the Heard Building, and how falcons nest on the tower and swoop to snag pigeons.

Back on October 18, 2008, I wrote about how my friend Barbara White’s daughter, Mary, died of lung cancer. And I wrote about her funeral on October 26^th.

Well, Dan, Mary’s husband, organized a team at his work called Mary’s Climbers. They intend to walk up 42 flights of stairs in the Bank of America tower as part of a fund raiser for the American Lung Association.

This event is scheduled for February 7, 2009, between 8 a.m. and 2 p.m.

42 Floors—That’s 838 steps they plan to climb.

These guys are heroes.

It’s all I can do to climb out of bed in the morning.

So, my contribution to the cause is to post this notice on my website—any reader interested in signing up as one of Mary’s Climbers, you can register at www.climbjacksonville.org .

Feel free to step up and sign up—then really step up!