JAMI'S ANGELS FUND
Jami's Walk History
1st Jami Walk, Mother's Day, Minneapolis...2004
Mother's Day, Minneapolis...2017
Westbrook Village, Peoria, AZ...Nov. 2, 2017
Keep November 2, from 9-1 open for our first annual Jami Walk in Westbrook Village!
For the past 13 years, our daughter’s friends, family & acquaintances have gather every Mother’s Day to walk in her memory. Jami was instantly killed after a negligent driver rammed into the back of her car in which she was in the back seat with her 2 children. She was 28 years old.
These walks have evolved into not just remembering Jami and all that she represented in our lives, but have transformed into walking for the memories and good of others. We have offered this platform to remember all of our angels who have left us far too soon. Although we have many we remember now, we welcome your suggestion or desire of names of young ones you’ve lost so we can include them in our list of angels, whom we will pray for and remember. If you can, please provide a picture, bio, and information with their age & when/how he/she left us. It can be as long as you’d like it to be. See our website: www.jamisangelfund.com where we allow each angel as much space as you’d like to share their memories with us.
In addition, we have turned our efforts into supporting charities or concerns that would have been important to Jami, or groups we can make a difference for. Previous years started out with filling the food banks, supporting a medical mercy ship going to the Philippines in February, 2018, and the walk we will be doing on November will be to support the local human trafficking organization in Phoenix, Streetlights, USA. This is an organization that started about 7 ears ago to support victims caught in the human trafficking world to rehabilitate by providing housing, food & emotional support.
This year, Winnie Heimke, President & Founder of W.O.W. (Women of Westbrook) has generously offered her November meeting to dedicate to the Jami Walk and our organizations' charity of choice, i.e, Streetlights, USA. We will meet poolside at the Vistas at 10am and walk 1 mile around the golf course. You are invited to Join WOW for snacks and refreshments while a speaker from Streetlight USA tells us more about their organization.
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Mother's Day, Minneapolis...2018
Hi Everyone!
Here we are, 13 years later and going for our 14th walk for Jami! What a wonderful thing to have as our Mother’s Day morning ritual and we always so appreciate each and every one of you who join us each year.
We’ve had a busy and eventful year because we did our first annual Jamiwalk in Arizona. We had a large crowd of 60 plus ladies who joined us to walk and remember Jami as well as the angels we continue to remember:
Jami Lynn Koski
Lee Michael Metelak
Ryan David Horton
Anthony Andrew Tanner
Abigail Roberta Melissa
Todd Sherman
Mark Placke
Alex Michael Sagrillo
Jill Cartier Chatterson
Don Lee Underwood
Meg Adele Lilienthal
Charlotte Jean Riley
Joshua Richard Hoenisch
It was a different venue where we had a speaker come to tell us about her experience of being coerced into a child sexual underworld that was nearly impossible to get out of except for the help of Streetlight USA, an organization in the Phoenix area that helps victims of human trafficking get out of and recover from such an heinous crime against them. It was an extremely moving story and opened our eyes to how easily these situations can occur, not just what you hear about on the news with the truck loads of foreign gals, but what can happen in our own back yards!!! Incredible!
We have teamed up with Mission 21 for this walk with the desire to walk for Jami, our angels, and an organization that has become very active in helping the young girls who are being targeted in the MN area. I contacted them a little too late for them to secure a representative to come and talk with us this year, but in the years to come, we hope to create a venue so you can learn first hand what is going on so we can continue supporting human trafficking protection efforts. Take a look at their mission, and passion...
Please check them out at www.mission21mn.org and learn what they are doing to help this effort, and any contributions you would make at the Jamiwalk will be donated to further their cause, and make the walk fun, memorable and meaningful. Please make checks out to Mission 21 and I will work with them to get receipts for you.
Let’s meet again at 8:15am at the parking lot area at the Lake Harriet Bandshell. We’ll begin walking at 8:30ish and meet up for coffee, juice & goodies.
I can’t wait to see all of you again. And know that both Shyanne and Jayden, Jami’s children will be with us to walk this year. Come out to meet them!
Tom & Pat Ossell
Westbrook Village, Peoria, AZ...Feb. 25, 2019
Our 2nd Annual Phoenix ‘Jami Walk’ will be held at the Vista’s courtyard (above the pool area) on February 25, 2019. Please join us as we gather to walk around the Vistas golf course (sidewalk via the street) in honor and memory of all of our friends, relatives & loved ones who have passed too soon at 9:30am.
The Jami Walk started in Minneapolis, MN shortly after our 28 year old daughter, Jami, was killed in an auto accident in Miami Fl. 14 years ago. Shortly after that, our friends and family got together to walk in honor and remember Jami, and every year since then, they continue to walk, not just in her memory, but for the memories of all our loved ones who left us too soon. Attached is a picture of the shirts we have sold in the past, and I am planning on ordering an updated version of the shirt for our next walk in February. So, please, if you have someone you would like to add to our list, please send a picture, a little bio & the year they passed to Pat Ossell, pat.ossell@gmail.com, so we can add them on the next printing.
In addition to walking, we will have a program honoring and remembering our loved ones as well as raising money to support money for the Human Trafficking elimination efforts that are being made in the Phoenix area.
We plan to have a speaker from one of the Human Trafficking organizations here to help all of us understand the severity of this is. Check out the website; www.jamisangelfund.com for more information about the Jami Walk.
We would like to have a little luncheon provided by all by bringing a dish to share. Coffee, water & lemonade will be provided.
In an effort to make more money for the cause, we ask for donations of baked goods for a bake sale.
More information will follow.
Thanks to all of you for helping honor & remember our ANGELS, and working toward a better life for those suffering under the horror of human trafficking.
Westbrook Village, Peoria, AZ...Feb. 1, 2020
WBV’s 3rd Annual
Jami Walk
February 1, 2020 Vista Ballroom 9 a.m.
We walk to honor Tom & Pat’s daughter, Jami, and all others whose life was taken too soon.
Speaker: Opal Singleton
President and CEO Million Kids www.MillionKids.org
*$15.00 donation
*Coffee- donuts- bagels- fruit-water
*Poker Walk with prizes
*50/50 raffle
*Shirts for purchase
Working for the prevention of Human Trafficking
For details: Pat Ossell pat.ossell@gmail.com or www.jamisangelfund.com
