From left: Matty Walls & Colin Henry, in the penalty box At the Jolly Jump, we like to start ’em young. Welcome third-graders Colin Henry and Matty Walls to the cause. Upon minutes of jumping aboard, these two plunging prodigies were already attracting sponsors like it was their job. Donate to Matty and Colin below…
Month: December 2018
Kristen Capone **** If you’re a veteran, do you remember a particular Jump? Tell us about it… I have a lot of memories from past jumps. I remember when we used to go to the Venus afterwards. That was like four places ago. I recall a year I forgot to bring dry pants. Fortunately, it
Laura Kelly scouts out her 2018 launch point **** If you’re a veteran, do you remember a particular Jump? Tell us about it… (The 2016 Jump) stands out in particular. It was the most successful Jump to date in both money raised and total fundraisers. Then, of course, Bryan Woodford’s pre-jump speech stands out… every
For many years, myself and my righthand man Robbie Poulin would meet early and travel to the Jump together. Over the last few years, however, he has been surprisingly absent. (I am assuming he has been on an in-depth spiritual search to find the meaning of life.) Wherever his path has led him in the
Immunology—the branch of medicine concerned with immunity and the immune system—and cancer research have united to develop a cancer treatment in which doctors train the body’s immune system cells to isolate cancer cells from healthy ones. The aggressive immune cells target the cancer cells without harming surrounding healthy cells. And then, these immune system agents
From left: Big Dog, Del Many people don’t know this, but Mike Del Rosso is the pixie dust that makes the Jolly Jump fly. He devotes countless hours to setting up jumpers pages, promoting the Jump, and more importantly, dealing with my shenanigans. Last year, the Jump was able to help him through his own
The Walls Family In 2015, the Wallses were the first jumpers to kick off the Jolly season. And they were Top Dog contenders until the very end. In 2016, as it turned out, their daughter Pru didn’t fall too far from the Walls Willow tree. Instead of buying her a birthday present, the little Walls