Wed
May 25 2016
04:43 pm
By: Bbeanster
Elijah Davis, a rising sophomore at Fulton High School, is an honor student and an outstanding member of the wrestling team. He has been invited to participate in a tournament in Australia this summer, but is having trouble getting the $5200 he needs to make the trip. He and his mom have been working hard, and have gotten pretty solid support from the Fulton community, but he's falling short of his goal.
I'm putting this out here to see if it might move someone to help this great kid. I think he's at about 80% of his goal, but he's got to have the full amount by June 1.
Here's his GoFundMe page:
And here's the story WATE TV did last month: (link...)
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Newsflash: The Neals are
Newsflash:
The Neals are awesome!
Elijah made it! Thanks so
Elijah made it!
Thanks so much to all who helped!!!!
('m afraid to start singling out people for fear of leaving somebody out, but this truly took a village.)