Magical Wish Come True

Justin Juncos looks like he doesn't have a care in the world. "I was about 17 or so when I came down with cancer." Looks can be deceiving. "It got to the point where I couldn't breathe and had to go to the hospital and they did an x-ray and they saw a big mass in my chest."
A rare form of leukemia, t-cell lymphoma, would keep him in the hospital for most of the next two years. "It's been in remission almost a year and a half," he says.
While Justin was in the hospital, an organization called Magic Moments, kind of a state version of the Make-a-Wish foundation, got in touch with him to grant a wish. He didn't want a trip or dinner with a movie star. It was something entirely different.
"They gave the okay on the lawn mower," says Juncos.
That's where Elberta Hardware and Rob Strawn come in, "We just gotten a call from Magic Moment and Magic Moment had said they were sending this money."
Twenty five hundred dollars to be exact, to be used for a lawn mower Justin had asked for to start a lawn care business. But that's only about half of what a commercial lawn mower would cost according to Strawn. "I was thinking can we do it right now? We can't do it because of the economy. So I thought maybe if I could get some help out of Cub Cadet. I contacted them and I think the timing was just right and basically it all came together."
Justin was surprised, "He told me that and I was just speechless. I definitely wasn't expecting anything like that."
The slogan on the lawn mower reads, experience the difference. In this case it should say making a difference.
"I believe all my bad days are over and it's going to get better from here on out."
Justin will get his lawn mower this weekend during a chili cook-off fundraiser at Elberta Hardware. He hopes to have his new lawn care business up and running by February.