I met Jesse Aron about 3 years ago. My mom had met him online through an

Elvis Loop, and her and my dad took a trip to WI to meet him. He then came

to South Bend a few months later for my mom's Elvis Impersonators Contest.

He didn't enter the contest but performed during intermission. He has an

awesome voice and can really hit the notes on all the power songs. As I am

always honest here, Jesse had said their was one guy that he didn't really

care much for, whom was a favorite of mine, so me being like I am, told him

until he liked that person I didn't like him. Over time Jesse got to meet

that guy and realized he was a good guy and got to hear him sing live and

liked him. Jesse has been here to South Bend a few times, and now does shows

here in the area with Doug Church. He was one of the entertainers at the

benefit for my friend Jennie and he was awesome! Also, last night *February

24th* he was a special guest and sang a few songs at Quentin Flagg's Dinner

show in his home town of Argos Indiana. They sang New Orleans and

Steamroller together and had a great time.

Jesse is a great entertainer and an all around great person to know. If you

ever get a chance to see his show, please do so! I know he has been featured

here on LLM a few times already and probably will continue to do so.

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Well, the benefit is done and over with, and are we ever glad to see it end.

The show was great, all the entertainers were awesome, and there were so

many people in there it was standing room only, and you could barely walk.

We were glad to see so many people show up, but did have to turn a lot of

people away. Raffles and tip boards were sold all night, and those all went

well. Food was sold in the kitchen, which i've heard they had some extra.

T-Shirts that were donated, were sold. The front of the shirts had a

picture of Elvis and said "On The Road To Recovery A Benefit For Jennie"

with the date on the back there were signatures of all the performers which

were sent to the person who made the shirts. Buddy King the local oldies

station dj played music for everyone to dance to froom 4-6, followed by 11

year old Ashley Romano who sings Country music and she has a great voice.

After her was a friend of her family named Kenny Lukka who also sings

country and was great. Then we got started with the Elvis entertainment.

Jesse Aron sang first, his music skipped, so they went on to Chris Effertz

who is a 16 year old local boy who sang two songs. He wore a red suit coat

and black dress pants. Jesse then came back on stage and sang some really

good power songs. Jesse also had an outfit made especially for the benefit,

which was Black pants, a white silk shirt with puffed sleeves and a Black

leather vest. Irv Cass then came out and did a few songs, he split his time

up into two sets, because one performer didn't make it. That performer was

Chris T. Young due to an illness couldn't make it, but we thank him for

offering his time. After Irv was Travis Morris came out with his Loving You

outfit *the all blue Jean* which brought back memories from when we all first

met Travis. Next up was Dennis Stella, complete with the black leather

outfit from the 68 comeback special. Dennis was really into it and got the

crowd going. Irv Cass then came out and did a second set in the white fringe

jumpsuit. After Irv, The Soul Purpose band, including Rob Hunter, a long

time friend of Jennie's, came out and rocked for about 45 minutes. They had

everyone out on the dance floor and had a good time. Next up was 17 year

old Quentin Flagg, my personal favorite. He wore a black sparkly shirt with

black dress pants. He did, by the request of Jennie and many others "She

Bangs" by Ricky Martin as his first song. That was the first time he ever

did it, and boy was it great! Then he went into Elvis songs, and kept the

energy going. He ended his performance with Liven La Vida Loca and Shake Your

Bon Bon both by Ricky Martin. He told everyone to get on their feet and have

a good time. After Quentin the final performer of the night Doug Church took

the stage. Doug was a class act as usual, wearing the ever popular Tiger

Jumpsuit, not only sang his heart out but thanked everyone and talked a

little about Elvis fans and why we were all there last night. After his

performance, Doug called all the guys up to the stage, including the band and

they sang 4 songs all together. They were all into it and had a lot of

energy. They also let Jennie thank everyone. She said she met a lot of

people that have things worse then her and she knows what she went through

could've been a lot worse. She started crying so I went up to her and sat

with her while she finished talking. Everyone seemed to have had a great

time. It was very successful.

We do have T-Shirts available for $20 which includes the cost of shipping.

Also, videos of the evening are available for $15 plus $3 shipping. If you

would like to order either, please contact me at Elvis6240@aol.com or my mom

Cindy at KUUIPO1777@aol.com

Lastly I would like to thank everyone who sent monitary donations, or other

donations, and for all your thoughts and prayers for Jennie. Also to the

performers thanks for giving your time to help the cause, you were all great.

To Bob Hunter and his crew for running the music all night. Charlie Hood on

the spot light, Pam Blalock who donated her time to video tape the benefit.

To Melody & June from ThemeStream thank you for putting my letter about the

benefit on your Tribute Artist Corner.

Thank You Again!

Hugs,

Cortney