Three months ago Melisa Bruner's three-year-old daughter, Hope, was diagnosed with Type I Diabetes. In a three-day stay at Children's Hospital.

Melisa and her husband quickly learned to count carbs, do blood sugar checks, and give life-sustaining insulin injections. They also learned what signs and symptoms to look for to keep Hope from going into a diabetic coma or from having seizures due to low blood sugar. Currently, Hope requires four insulin shots a day just to stay alive and function normally. There are so many children suffering with this disease. We need a cure to help these little ones.

The Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation is having its annual Walk to Cure Diabetes. The Walk will take place at the Montgomery Zoo on September 25th at 2:00 p.m.

You can help make a difference for everyone living with diabetes by: Joining "Hope's Heroes" Walk Team, collecting pledges, and walking with Hope's team or by making a tax-deductible donation made payable to JDRF or Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation.

More than 1.3 million Americans have Type I Diabetes. Each year over 13,000 children are diagnosed with diabetes in the U.S. - that is 35 children each and every day. Diabetes kills one American every three minutes. A new case of diabetes is diagnosed every 30 seconds. Please email Melisa Bruner if you would like to walk on Hope's team.

We are proud to be a part of an organization that reaches out in such an unselfish way. Thanks to Jere, Tom and the Board of Directors and to the employees who have given so liberally to this worthy cause.

Willa Carpenter and Bobby Mozingo coordinated Beasley Allen's hurricane relief donations, loading the 82Racing 18 wheeler trailer with grocery and clothes donations which Grant delivered to the Daphne Red Cross evacuee center Friday night.

The Daphne center, operated by Baldwin County volunteers, was designated to receive the much needed load of supplies at the last minute, after most of the evacuees originally placed in Robertsdale were dispersed to other locations.

On September 6th, we mailed off 100 bags of personal hygiene items to the Houston Astrodome in Houston, TX.

Water was supplied to 1500 State Troopers who were serving in South AL.

We gathered donations from employees of Beasley Allen. These were delivered to Helping Hands - a group of churches collecting needs for the hurricane victims.

We had 37 boxes and 5 plastic bags of ladies and men clothes, kids clothes, toys, books and crayons. Toiletries, diapers, paper wear.

From donations gathered from Local Attorneys and Calhoun Foods, we gave 4 pickup loads of clothes, paper goods, and food items to New Life Church of God In Christ for refugees.

102 cases of cereal, paper towels/bath room tissue, body wash, lysol, coffee, crackers, candles, off, and dried plums, were given to Evangel Temple Church.

12 plastic bags of personal items was given to Gateway Baptist Church. These items were taken to Ocean Springs, Ms.

Salvation Army will pick up clothes this week.

Cystic Fibrosis is an incurable hereditary disorder that leads to problems with breathing and digestion, can cause infection, and ultimately, death. Here at Beasley Allen we are committed to fighting this disease.

This year we were a Start / Finish line sponsor for the Montgomery area Poker Run on May 21, 2005. For more information on how you can help fight Cystic Fibrosis visit the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation Website.

Discovery Village Playscape is a hand-on, interactive, science-based playground that will stimulate and entertain children in Montgomery and the river region.

Located in downtown Montgomery adjacent to historic Old Alabama Town, Discovery Village is just the beginning of a League Signature Project that will have a lasting, positive impact on the community.

Beasley Allen Attorney Kendall Dunson serves on the Board of CCF, a community based service organization. One of their projects this year was to speak to the students at Bellingrath Junior High School. Kendall wrote a skit involving a violation of the school's zero tolerance policy against weapons on school grounds.

In January of 2005, Kendall along with several other Beasley Allen attorneys and staff members played out the skit.