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I participated in a Run for Boston event on Monday night. In our little neck of the world, about 2000 people gathered to run a 2.62 mile loop on the local high school track. You can imagine that the track was packed. I wouldn't call it a run so much as a run/walk. Either way, the event, which was happening all over the country, probably raised a large sum of money for the folks affected in Boston. While there was no entry fee to run, the sponsors sold Run for Boston T-shirts at $20 a pop. One hundred percent of the proceeds will benefit OneFundBoston.org. Awesome cause, awesome way to raise money.

But what about the people of West, Texas? Different circumstances, but a tragedy nonetheless. I don't find it any more difficult to find sympathy for one set of people over the other. Do you? But I do find it more of an effort to discover how to help these people of West, Texas. I did an online search on funding for both causes, and Boston came up with search results galore, while the results for West, Texas, were minimal.

So I thought it might be useful to help those people out in West by at least letting people know the ways they can be of assistance. Do a quick internet search of your own and dig up what you can, or else use this article, which has a couple of useful links. Now you can't say you didn't know how to help.

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