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24 Dec 07 Derek Johnson |  |
Busta Tournament Raises $33,500 for UW-Madison's Waisman Center & Stem Cell Research
I had the honor of serving on the event's planning committee and to present a check for this year's total of $33,500 to UW-Madison's Waisman Center for stem cell research; that's me on the left in the photo with Dr. Su-Chun Zhang, lead scientist, and Dr. Marsha Seltzer, Waisman Center Director.
As I said in an interview with a local television station that covered the tournament, "It's impossible to be around David Busta and not find his spirit and enthusiasm contagious. We're creating quite a legacy in David's honor."(read more)
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13 Nov 06 Derek Johnson | |
Planning for the David Busta Basketball Tournament and Silent Auction has been heating up lately in anticipation of the 4th annual event with a goal of raising money for stem cell research. Set for November 25th in my brother Arik's and my hometown of Chetek, Wisconsin, Aurora has been a sponsor and supporter since the start and we're excited to be participating again this year.
My good friend and high school teammate, David Busta, became quadriplegic after a fall in the summer of 2002, which spurred us to come together with others in Chetek to produce an ongoing annual event for spinal cord injury research. All of the money they raise goes to UW-Madison's Waisman Center and we're expecting to exceed an exciting milestone of $100,000 raised cumulatively following the event in a couple of weeks.
The picture above is of Judy Clark, Eau Claire's (WI) local TV-13 news anchor, myself and David Busta taken at a Nov. 4th interview Judy did with us to help spread the word. While I'm not necessarily excited to play three games of basketball in one day myself on the 25th, I'm thrilled to continue building on the successes we've had in the previous three years, and to try to beat last year's $34,500 total.(read more)
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11 Oct 06 Arik Johnson |  |
David Busta Basketball Tournament & Silent Auction
Aurora WDC is a proud sponsor of the David Busta Basketball Tournament & Silent Auction, to be held in my hometown of Chetek, Wisconsin on Saturday 25 November from 8:00 AM to 6:00 PM. Entering its fourth year in 2006 and the brainchild of my brother Derek Johnson (Aurora's research and analysis director) and his high school friend (and Aurora alum) Charley Anderson, it's a fun day of basketball and auction items, inspired by David Busta, their pal and teammate from Chetek High School.
Join Aurora, as a sponsor or even field a team, to benefit stem cell research at the University of Wisconsin Madison's Waisman Center (my alma mater), the nation's first and (so far) only stem cell bank and home of Professor James Thomson's first isolation of a stem cell line twelve years ago.(read more)
