It’s Pan Massachusetts Challenge time again! The PMC, and all the patients who benefit, greatly appreciate your sponsorship! For the 15th time I have accepted the challenge to ride the PMC, in honor and in memory of a number of relatives and friends who have grappled, or are grappling with a much bigger challenge: cancer, especially in children. That’s what this event is all about…an opportunity for riders and supporters alike to apply our God-given gifts, talents, abilities and resources for the good of others. As I train, fund raise and train for the two-day, 192-mile Sturbridge-to-Provincetown ride, I find meaning in my small efforts, knowing that collectively 6,000 other individual efforts sum to deliver an awesome and inspiring achievement. One of the biggest factors that helps keep me coming back to this event is that 100% of every rider-­raised dollar from the Pan-Massachusetts Challenge goes directly to patient care and research at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute!

I have earmarked my sponsorship dollars to be directed to the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute's Erica Leafquist Fund, which is nearing a breakthrough in understanding the genetic factors connected with relapsed acute lymphoblastic leukemia (A.L.L.). Erica was the daughter of one of our team's riders, who battled A.L.L for ten years, from the age of three.

Please join me in helping this very worthy cause, by making any donation amount with which you feel comfortable. I’m happy to carry the names of anyone who you might like to honor during the ride.

THANK YOU!! ...andiamo!

Jim Scutti