LAURA CORLIN NEEDS YOUR ON-LINE VOTE!
Go to http://www.volvoforlifeawards.com and click on VOTE. Then Click on NH and VOTE for Laura Corlin! She could win $50,000.00 to be donated directly to her children's hospital music benefit program The Difference Music Makes AND a Volvo for life to drive to the hospital performance in!! AND you can vote as many times as you can!!!!

YOUR VOTE REALLY COUNTS! From August 14, 2006 through to February 4th, 2007 America will have the opportunity to vote for their top hero.

If Laura wins the Volvo For Life Award, she will be able to deliver the healing benefits of music through live performances and individual music gift bags stuffed with CDs, a personal CD player, and gifts to over 1,000 kids fighting life-threatening diseases. Laura and her cast of young recording artists personally deliver the gift bags right into the hands of children in hospital wards across the country! They have traveled to hospitals in The Children's Hospital at Dartmouth Hitchcock in NH, ST. Jude's Children's Hospital in Tennessee and San Diego Children's Hospital in California, and most recently at the Barbara Bush Children's Hospital in Maine, . Next on the their delivery wish list is the young patients at Boston Children's Hospital in Massachusetts and the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, PA. YOUR VOTE CAN MAKE THIS HAPPEN! Please Vote Today, Tomorrow and The Next right through to February 4th.

We Would Be So Grateful If You Would Send This Message To Everyone On Your E-mail List For This Worth While Opportunity To Make Something Wonderful Happen.

"Working In Harmony, We Can Make A Difference To A CHILD"
Laura Corlin The Difference Music Makes

You can contact The Difference Music Makes at starmightfoundation@hotmail.com

Thank you so much for your support in this effort.

Most Appreciatively Yours,
Laura Corlin, Founder of The Difference Music Makes
and
Meagan Corlin,
The StarMight Foundation
67 Spruce Pond Drive
Strafford, NH 03884
The StarMight Foundation - Empowering Youth To Make A Difference www.starmightfoundation.orgwww.starmightfoundation.org

Original Song Submission Details

The StarMight Foundation presents a First Song Submission for Tru Originals, compilation music CD
The StarMight Foundation, a 501c-3 non-profit organization, is excited to announce the Tru Originals compilation CD! Volume IV in The Difference Music Makes Children's Hospital Benefit Music Series. Over $30,000 in music has been donated to young patients in children's hospitals from coast to coast. For more details on this service program go to: http://www.starmightfoundation.org/differencemusicmakesIndex.html The Tru Originals CD will showcase original music from the best emerging and unsigned artists from around the world. Tru Originals will be distributed to young patients at children's hospitals across the United States and release to college radio stations, independent music stores and sold online, solely to raise money for The Difference Music Makes Community Service Project. NOT FOR PROFIT! Tru Originals will feature the work of 12-14 bands or artists performing an original song IN THEIR OWN GENRE. Interpretations of classics are also permitted if the song is in the public domain. If you can't clear it… don't plan on recording it. The contest will be run in three parts: First, submit your EPK, Band or headshot, performance resume and any other information that helps us define who you are.Second, The initial song submission/submissions do not have to be a finished, master recording…submit the best-recorded work you have on hand, now. Selected artists and bands will be asked to submit their studio quality recordings at a later date. Song Criteria: We are looking for songs that will appeals to older kids, 12 years and older. No children songs this time around. Songs shall not contain negative messages, swears, aggression or overly religious themes. We are looking for positive and uplifting themes only. All genres will be considered for this compilation.All bands and artists selected for Tru Originals will receive 10 copies at no cost. Additional copies (up to 50) will be available at wholesale cost. No Royalties will be paid for copies sold online as all monies made from the sale of this CD will be donated directly into The Difference Music Makes Community Service Program to Fund the music gift bag items that are donated to young patients at children's hospitals and to help fund medical research of life-threatening childhood diseases. Submissions are open to ALL GENRES, but we are accepting only English & Spanish language songs only. (international bands and artists are strongly encouraged to submit) Third, All submissions will receive a written, professional analysis even if not selected for the compilation. Selected bands and artists will receive additional required forms and instructions on studio format recording requirements and deadline dates for submission of final master recordings. Here's the BEST PART! There are NO ADDITIONAL COSTS! If selected, the band or artist will NOT pay any additional fees or "participation" costs. The only fee is the initial $15.00 screening/submission fee. What are you waiting for? We will be manufacturing 1,500+ CDs. Every band or artist who is selected for the CD will receive 10 copies at no cost. Additional copies (up to 25) will be available at wholesale cost.
Submittal Deadline: 8/15/2006 Submit Songs On Line @ http://www.sonicbids.com/Opportunity/OpportunityView.aspx?opportunity_id=9841 OR

Mail your music demo CD, lyrics sheet, head or band photograph, performance resume and include your $15.00 per song submission (non-refundable) to:The StarMight Foundation67 Spruce Pond DriveStrafford, NH 03884Make all checks payable to The StarMight Foundation
For more information contact the StarMight Foundation at 603-664-9983, E-mail: starmightfoundation@hotmail.com or web-site: www.starmightfoundation.org

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A kindred spirit - Strafford teen 'Spirit of the Seacoast' winner By Holly Finigan hfinigan@seacoastonline.com Laura Corlin is living for today and helping others live for a better tomorrow. A senior at Coe Brown High School in Strafford, Corlin is involved with drama, music, Students Against Drunk Driving, has founded a charity, and has spent more than 2,000 hours volunteering in the community. Now Corlin has something else to add to her long list of recognition and awards. She is this fall’s Spirit of the Seacoast winner. The award, given quarterly, is sponsored by United Way of the Greater Seacoast Volunteer Action Center, Federal Savings Bank in Dover, and the Portsmouth Herald. The award recognizes volunteers who make a difference in someone’s life, who take community service one step further with their attitude, time and skill. The winner receives a $500 grant to go to the charity of their choice. "We want to recognize and promote volunteerism in the community," said Robin Albert, director of the United Way of the Greater Seacoast’s Volunteer Action Center for the past five years. "This award has been incredibly successful in honoring volunteers and sharing information." Fifteen other volunteers were nominated for the award, though Corlin was the ultimate winner. Albert describes Corlin as a "self-starter and a dynamic student." Corlin is using the money for her own charity, The Difference Music Makes. The charity supplies portable CD players and compact discs to children in hospitals. "I was inspired to do the charity by a director of mine. She thought I could really make a difference and I should do something other than bake sales and car washes," she said. "And the idea just blossomed from there." The Difference Music Makes is now in full bloom. Corlin’s charity has donated hundreds of CD players and CDs to children in local hospitals. From St. Jude to the Children’s Hospital in Tennessee to the Children’s Hospital at Dartmouth/Hitchcock in New Hampshire and on to the San Diego Children’s Hospital in California, Corlin’s dedication to music and children is admirable. "People have reached out so much to my program," she said. "It is just amazing to me." Amazing is how Corlin still has time to hang out with her friends and go to the movies with her busy schedule. "October is going to be a busy month," she said. She is involved with the school play, playing Helena in Shakespeare’s "A Mid-Summer’s Night’s Dream". Corlin organizes sweater drives with her sister Meagan, throughout the year, and has collected about 3,500 for New Hampshire families in need. Corlin volunteers at many different organizations, including the "StarMight Foundation”, which was founded by her older sister Megan. A talented singer, Corlin has sung the national anthem at Boston Celtics games, along with UNH hockey games. She is a high-honor student, a budding musician, and a caring citizen. Corlin has also been working on recording and producing the second CD in the "Difference Music Makes Series." The CD, titled, "Tru Colors" was released at the end of September. The proceeds will also raise funds for the research of life-threatening pediatric diseases, said Corlin. Corlin said she is looking forward to using the grant and being able to distribute the CD players and her new CD to the kids. "When I went to sing in front of the kids in the hospital, I was so excited," she said. "It is amazing that those kids were able to get up and come see me. It was such a heartwarming feeling." Genuine and well-spoken, Corlin was also awarded a different kind of award this past March. March 25, 2004, was officially proclaimed Laura Corlin Day in Strafford. The award from Straffod County Commissioner’s Commendation is a plaque that hangs on her wall. "It was so cool!" she said. "I had no idea that I was getting this award." Corlin said she is surprised by all the scholarships and awards she has won for her dedication to community service. "I’ve been getting these awards, and it is so wonderful, but I am doing things that I love, and don’t expect to get rewarded out of it." Along with Laura Corlin Day, Laura has received many scholarships from various groups, helping fund her way to college. And what do the next four years have in store for Corlin? Syracuse and the Berklee College of Music are among her top college choices, and she dreams of being a music teacher someday. A self-described "born-again country music fan," Corlin’s newest passion is the fiddle. In whatever spare time she can find, she has been rehearsing as much as possible. Corlin’s generous nature and kindred spirit have made her not only the "spirit of the seacoast" but an inspiration for many others.

"TRU COLORS" Volume II in The Difference Music Makes CD series is in production! RESERVE YOUR COPY TODAY as ONLY 250 will be available to the general public! The remainder are being delivered to the young patients at the Children's Hospital at Dartmouth/Hitchcock in NH and the Children's Hospital in San Diego! If you purchase a CD we can buy more CD players for the kids in the hospitals to listen to their music on during their long treatment periods!!!To reserve your copy today go to http://www.starmightfoundation.org/differencemusicmakes.html