So, Whatcha Doin January 23rd?

You may remember little Ethan Loney. Ethan is the little birthday cake-eating two-year old pictured at left. Ethan is also one of the little birthday cake-eating two year olds that have been asked to endure hardships that birthday cake-eating two-year old little boys should know nothing about, much less live with. From Facebook:

Ethan Loney is an amazing 2 year old boy that that loves to play outside in his and my front yard. Yesterday he was diagonesed with cancer that is attached to his kidney. He is goin to have surgery on thursday to remove it. Althought he is not family i have known Kenny and Kelly since i was a little boy and both them Ethan and Sarah sure seem like family. So lets keep them all in our prayer and hope that he pulls throught this just fine. Ethan has Neuroblastoma and it is in stage 4 and is in his bone marrow. Neuroblastoma is a form of cancer that starts in certain types of very primitive developing nerve cells found in an embryo or fetus. (The term neuro indicates "nerves", while blastoma refers to a cancer that affects immature or developing cells). This type of cancer occurs in infants and young children. It is rarely found in children older than 10 years. Lets all hope that he can be strong and fight off this cancer.

Unfortunately, you may know little Ethan because he recently made the news. More unfortunately, it wasn't because he's a birthday cake-eating two-year old. It was because life decided to teach him a little about the lowlifes of the world. Read about it here.

Fortunately, life has seen fit to surround Ethan with a loving family and a group of supporters dedicated to seeing that Ethan wins the battle that no two-year old should have to fight.

Among those supporters is a local band named Trainwreck. The guys in Trainwreck have organized a benefit concert for young Ethan on January 23rd at the Eagles Club in Carnegie, PA:

This is a benefit concert for young Ethan Loney, who has Neuroblastoma a form of cancer that attacks very young children, Ethan is 2 years old and is going through chemo treatments to try to kill the cancer and rid him of this disease, cost for this event will be $20.00 , there will be food and drink for sale and we will have 50/50 drawings door prizes and other fun events, Along with Trainwreck , Alicia Romano , Jess Sides, and Tori Plack and our friends Cole will be performing, ,

There may very well be something better to drop twenty bucks on, but I really doubt it.

In case you can't make the show but you're interested in helping Ethan's cause, donations are being accepted at:

Ethan Loney Trust Fund

Dollar Bank

PO Box 765

Pittsburgh, PA 15230-0765

Please come out, have a good time and help this birthday cake-eating two year-old little boy.