Share the Warmth Round Up

Dear Friends and Family,

There’s a new program in North Carolina, South Carolina & Tennessee that I’d like to tell you about because it gives each and every one of us the opportunity to help our neighbors in need. And it’s simple.

It’s called Share the Warmth Round Up and it allows Piedmont Natural Gas customers to round up their monthly natural gas bill to the nearest dollar, with 100% of the difference going to assist neighbors in their communities who need help paying home energy bills. Here in North Carolina, your dollars will be given Crisis Assistance Ministries and the NC Department of Health and Human Services.

Share the Warmth funds help pay energy bills throughout the year regardless of the energy source used in the home – including natural gas, propane, oil, electricity, coal, kerosene and wood.

The most it could cost any of us is just $12 a year. I’m sure you’ll agree that’s small change to change lives.

Gary & I both work for Piedmont Natural Gas. I actually just celebrated my 9-year anniversary with the company! Anyway, Piedmont recently donated $100,000 to Share the Warmth Round Up and if 100,000 people sign up by Sept. 15, Piedmont will donate $50,000 more!

If you’re a Piedmont customer, it’s easy to sign up. Just have your bill with your account number and call 1-800-752-7504. You can also enroll at www.piedmontng.com. Not a Piedmont customer? Find instructions on how to contribute at www.piedmontng.com or just ask me!

Please sign up today and pass this info along to five of your friends and family so we can reach 100,000 participants by Sept. 14! Send out an email, a blog post, Facebook note or even tweet about it!

Gary and I have signed up and hope you will, too – today!

Many thanks for your support.

P.S. My favorite part is that you can track our progress on www.twitter.com/sharethewarmth and www.facebook.com/sharethewarmth. I work with a team of people & update both of those sites on behalf of Piedmont. Not a bad gig, huh?!?!

The Luke Pier Foundation Blog: Update on Luke

The Luke Pier Foundation Blog: Update on Luke
Check out the link above for an update on Luke. He had his appointment at Johns Hopkins a couple of weeks ago, & the blog post talks about it.

You can also become a "Fan" of The Luke Pier Foundation on Facebook. Click here to check out the Facebook page. We are trying to reach at least 100 fans so we can claim our own Facebook URL. Help us get there! :)

We hope everyone is having a great weekend! We'll write more soon.

A Vacation & A Wedding

We went to North Topsail Beach in June for a Stalnaker family vacation and to attend cousin Josh's wedding. Josh & Rachel's wedding was beautiful, & everyone had a great time celebrating with them.

The wedding was on a Monday, so we were able to spend the rest of the week vacationing. By far, our most favorite night was kayaking on the Intracoastal Waterway with Josh, Rachel & Derek.


It was the kind of vacation, though, where we needed another vacation to recover from it! Maybe next year.