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Legacy
of Lonnie Borck Honored in Campaign to Buy Armored
Ambulance for United Hatzalah |
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For
people in the domain industry
who knew him, Lonnie Borck was a person
they will never forget. Lonnie passed unexpectedly
in his sleep in 2016,
but his friends and colleagues have kept his
memory alive in various ways that honor and
reflect Lonnie's spirit for giving and helping
others. The most high profile of those has been
presentation of the Internet
Commerce Association's annual Lonnie
Borck Award (the winner of the next
one will be announced at the ICA's upcoming Annual
Meeting in Las Vegas next
month). One
of Lonnie's closest friends, domain attorney Ari
Goldberger, is now using a high profile domain
that he and Lonnie previously shared ownership in,
Jewish.com,
to raise money for United
Hatzalah, a non-profit emergency
medical services organization that provides
fast and free emergency medical services to all
people in Israel, regardless of race,
religion, or nationality. Lonnie spent much of his
spare time volunteering as an Emergency Medical
Technician for the Baltimore Hatzalah chapter. |
Lonnie
Borck
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When Ari
learned that United
Hatzalah was able to provide volunteer EMS
service with a record 90-second response
time throughout the State of Israel,
thanks to a fleet of fully-equipped
armored ambulances he thought Lonnie
Borck's name should be on one of those-life
saving vehicles. Hatzalah volunteers were
the first responders on the scene of the
October 7th terrorist attack in Israel and
they are now bringing doctors and medical
staff to save lives on the frontlines of the
war with Hamas that has followed. Jewish.com
noted that United
Hatzalah was on the scene before the IDF,
thanks to their GPS trackers pinging
the first calls for help, adding "They
dispatched over 1,000 emergency first
responders and more than 120 rescue
vehicles to the south and north to save
as many lives as possible." |
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Ari's mission now is to
raise money for the purchase of one of those
ambulances to be donated in memory of Lonnie
Borck. "Lonnie lived a life of kindness,
humanity, and generosity, and would have been
honored to ensure that as many lives as possible
were able to be saved in the land of Israel. May his
memory be a blessing," Donations for this
initiative can be made through a Lonnie Borck
memorial page on the United Hatzalah website at IsraelRescue.org.
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(Posted
December 22, 2023)
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