Bartender Raises Money For Customer’s New Teeth

A bartender in California set out on a mission to get her friend new teeth, and succeeded in raising $2,000 in a month. The money will go to a man who lost his teeth three years ago and suffers from hydrocephaly.

REDLANDS – Julie Strauja has a new found appreciation for her neighbors here in Redlands.

When Strauja decided to reach out to the community in an effort to help a friend, the people she encountered responded in a big way.

Strauja raised $2,000 in little over a month.

The goal: provide much needed dental work for Danny Dowd, who suffers from hydrocephaly – a condition characterized by an abnormal increase in the amount of fluid in the cranium that causes enlargement of the head and deterioration of the brain.

Dowd lost his teeth about three years ago, and the hope was that he’d have a new set by Christmas.

“When I started this, it was more like a leap of faith,” said Strauja, a bartender at Romano’s Restaurant. “It really has been about this community coming together. I feel blessed to be living… continue reading

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