Grind For Life, Inc was founded in 2003, by life-long skateboarder Mike Rogers, after his second battle with sarcoma cancer. Mike’s tumor was located behind his right eye and nasal cavity. He endured a 17 hour surgery a cranial-facial resection with a brain-lift, removal of his eye, cheekbone, and half of the roof of his mouth and some of his teeth. He beat cancer once as a pre-teen, and again 25 years later. Mike beat the odds and is skateboarding competitive again.

To make it clear on how’s Grind For Life works check out their video on their site.

Legendary bassist Karl Alvarez recently suffered a heart attack. Alvarez is the veteran musician of notable acts including All, The Descendents and The Lemonheads.

While Karl is recovering, mounting medical bills are causing problems and some of his friends have set up a fund to help raise some money to offset some of those costs. You can click here to help.

Picture of Karl originally taken from the his MySpace benefit page. Hope you get well soon…