ID :
110921
Wed, 03/10/2010 - 17:50
Auther :
Shortlink :
http://m.oananews.org//node/110921
The shortlink copeid
BOSTON SINGER'S KID GOES MONGOLIA FOR CHARITY RALLY
Ulaanbaatar, /MONTSAME/ Three years after the death of Brad Delp, lead singer of the band Boston, his daughter Jenna is racing to Mongolia in his memory.
The 29-year-old, with friends Nick Supple and Nick Dale, will drive a car fueled by waste vegetable oil more than 8,000 miles from London to Mongolia in a charity event, the annual Mongol Rally, which kicks off July 24.
The rally requires participants to raise $1,700 for Mercy Corps Mongolia, which aids rural residents of the remote Central Asian country. Delp’s team, the Non-Toxic Avengers, expects to raise additional funds to benefit a charity closer to her home and heart: the Brad Delp Foundation, which provides money and scholarships for school music programs.
“We hope to make this a successful fund-raising effort,” Delp said from her home in Los Angeles. “We would like to spread my dad’s message of happiness and love and charity for everybody. That is why we are doing the vegetable oil thing. We want to be green and responsible.
“I think (my father) would be very impressed that we are doing it,” she said. ”I don’t think he would attempt it himself. I think he would be living it vicariously through me.”
Brad Delp was found dead in his home in Atkinson, on March 9, 2007, in a suicide by carbon monoxide poisoning. He was 55.
S.Batbayar
The 29-year-old, with friends Nick Supple and Nick Dale, will drive a car fueled by waste vegetable oil more than 8,000 miles from London to Mongolia in a charity event, the annual Mongol Rally, which kicks off July 24.
The rally requires participants to raise $1,700 for Mercy Corps Mongolia, which aids rural residents of the remote Central Asian country. Delp’s team, the Non-Toxic Avengers, expects to raise additional funds to benefit a charity closer to her home and heart: the Brad Delp Foundation, which provides money and scholarships for school music programs.
“We hope to make this a successful fund-raising effort,” Delp said from her home in Los Angeles. “We would like to spread my dad’s message of happiness and love and charity for everybody. That is why we are doing the vegetable oil thing. We want to be green and responsible.
“I think (my father) would be very impressed that we are doing it,” she said. ”I don’t think he would attempt it himself. I think he would be living it vicariously through me.”
Brad Delp was found dead in his home in Atkinson, on March 9, 2007, in a suicide by carbon monoxide poisoning. He was 55.
S.Batbayar
