Communications from our readers.
From: Bethany-Anne Pawlicker <pawlicker@pathwayofempowerment.com>
Date: Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 6:41 AM
Subject: Dave, thanks for helping my youth group with your backpacking and hiking webpage
I just wanted to send you a quick e-mail to say thank you.
My name is Bethany-Anne, and I am a student teacher working with a group of disadvantaged middle school kids. We wanted to come up with some ideas for things to do outdoors. You know, ways to enjoy these last few weeks of summer.
All the kids thought hiking was a great idea, so that's how we found your page. It has some great info that we will be able to share. Thanks for all the help! :)
Oh, and one of the girls in my group, little Katie, found a great resource on hiking safety during computer time that I thought I'd share with you. It's www.lowest-price-canes.com. Could you add this to your page?
Little Katie is a bit shy around the others, so I thought showing them all your page with her link on it would help her stand out a little more. And that way I can award her a gold star for initiative too! It would do wonders for her self-esteem, coming from a troubled home and all.
Plus, I thought other hikers looking for safety information would appreciate your thoughtfulness, especially since as you might guess, www.lowest-price-canes.com has the lowest prices on the whole internet! Check out their walkers, wheelchairs, and incontinence supplies as well -- no one undersells www.lowest-price-canes.com!
So thanks again, and I hope you have a great rest of the summer! Katie and I can hardly wait!
Ms Bethany-Anne Pawlicker
P.S. It just occurred to me that you might like more information on our organization, Pathway of Empowerment.com, so here goes.
Well, as you can see at our web site, there is no "About Us" page, and no "Contact Us" page, which just take up unnecessary space. Since we're on a tight budget we decided to leave these out.
Also, we don't list any staff, or mention a location, mostly because it's a kind of small operation. I'm sure you've heard about nonprofits!
If you do a web search on our URL thing, it will just bring you back to our web site -- no wasteful mentions by other charitable groups, testimonials by parents, sponsors, or any of that.
Partly this is due to us keeping a low profile, as you can tell from the "whois" information listing our address as a "PMB" (private mail box) in Belize, with computer servers in Vietnam and Botswana.
So I guess that's about it, unless you'd like to help us cash some checks.
We don't have a bank account, instead relying on the kindness of others, and really, are there better people than hikers? We can send you some checks which you deposit, and after keeping 15%, just wire the money back to us. Simple, yet effective!
And if that isn't right for you (I surely understand) we do have a contact in Nigeria, a prince no less, who is trying to get a large sum of money out of that troubled country. He certainly could use help from someone like you, so don't be shy about getting back to me.
Sincerely, Beth4You@KinkyBethany.com (My real job! ;)