The Ride for Sight is just over a week away and we are still far from our team goal of $25,000. My personal goal is $1,000 and I have agreed that if I meet my goal…I will wear a kilt for the celebration part of the day (after the ride of course). Only $250 more to go and the world gets to see me wear a kilt for the first time. If you want to see it, I need your help…please sponsor me by clicking on this link: http://my.e2rm.com/personalPage.aspx?SID=1830014

For those who are curious about where the money goes…here is a break down from last year:

Investment in a Miracle (last updated October 30th, 2007)1974-2007 $15,199,060

Case Western Reserve University $29,167

Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Mere-Enfant $17,500

Columbia University $47,664

Cross Cancer Institute $110,500

Dalhousie University $177,094

Eye Institute of Canada $102,000

Harvard Medical School $52,500

Hopital Sainte-Justine $63,000

Hopital Maisonneuve-Rosemont $37,750

Massachusetts Eye & Ear $29,950

McGill University $914,299

McMaster University $339,021

Memorial University $168,533

Montreal Children’s Hospital $202,184

Montreal General Hospital $283,516

Montreal Research Institute $145,000

Scientific Symposia $204,947

Stem Cell Network $203,400

The Hospital for Sick Children $2,944,406

Université Laval $156,664

University of Alberta $399,453

University of British Columbia $1,323,008

University of Calgary $2,488,299

University of Iowa $28,650

University of Lethbridge $58,250

University of Manitoba $247,500

University of Miami $35,250

University of Michigan $87, 500

University of Montréal $55,325

University of Ottawa $683,182

University of Toronto $3,391,228

University of Victoria $107,500

University of Western Ontario $64,820

Cures are in Sight! The group of eye diseases that cause degeneration of the retina affect more than six million North Americans. Macular degeneration, which leads to loss of central vision, is the leading cause of legal blindness in people over the age of 55. The RP (retinitis Policementosa) family of diseases is the leading cause of inherited blindness, and affects 1.5 million people worldwide. The Foundation Fighting Blindness has a mission to support and promote research directed to finding the causes, treatments and ultimately the cures for retinitis Policementosa, macular degeneration and related diseases of the retina.