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“After we helped Sarah this spring, it really made all of us feel good about helping others,” said Jorgensen. “And with our medium (the website) being so popular we knew we could use it to promote whatever we wanted. So what we wanted to do was use that power to help others.”

StreetKidsSoftball.com averages almost 1,900 hits per day, up from 200 hits per day in the spring. Many softball players in the area go to the website just to see what the team is up to and how well they are doing, even if they are not big fans of the Street Kids team. But the major increase in awareness, Jorgensen believes, is when they made people realize that softball is not the only thing that drives them.

“I know hundreds of people come to the site daily,” Jorgensen added. “And a lot of them are people that are not even affiliated with softball at all. They just want to see what is going on and they are people that were impressed with what we did with Sarah. I get at least 10 emails a week out of no where just commenting on the site and how excited they are that someone in the area cares about the community enough to do something like we’ve done with the website.”

The Street Kids have one important person in Mishawaka that is strongly behind their off-field efforts. Mishawaka Mayor Jeff Rea.

“I love what they do for the community of Mishawaka and what they’ve done for Sarah,” said Mayor Rea. “Recently, TJ was at a Park Board meeting regarding improvements for one of our local softball diamonds at Rose Park. His comments were well received and he articulated the issues very well. We plan to call upon the Street Kids Organization again in October for a City Council meeting to help drive the issue home on getting the much needed repairs done to Rose South.”

“Street Kids Care will be dedicated to helping others in the area, above softball and sports,” Jorgensen went on to say. “Our first mission, if you want to call it that, is to get involved with the Making Strides Against Breast Cancer walk taking place on October 14^th. My wife, Courtney is heading up the event and Street Kids Care is the team name. Without even promoting the event or even mentioning it beyond a couple of players, several people are already donating their time and money to the event. It’s amazing and we’re just getting started.”

Jorgensen said that Sports Image Apparel of Indiana has donated several pink shirts with the Street Kids logo on front and a special message on the back that reads “Street Kids Softball is a Proud Supporter of Breast Cancer Awareness”. Jorgensen is hoping that players will wear the shirts at some upcoming games to help promote breast cancer awareness.

“I know its pink, but the message we as men are saying by wearing these shirts is amazing,” he said. “If we arrive at the Belleville Complex in South Bend, where over 100 people at any given time are standing or playing and they see one of the most prolific and better teams of the area walking up with pink shirts on… that will get some attention. It also lets people know that this is a disease that affects not just women, but men as well.”

Look for more information on the breast cancer awareness in the upcoming days.