McShane Fundraiser

Good news coming out in small portions:

• Natasha McShane has started talking for the first time since she was brutally beaten with a baseball bat while celebrating with a friend in Bucktown, her family says.
  
  "She's whispering," her grandmother Bernadette McShane said today. "She's trying to talk."
  
  Natasha McShane is speaking "odd words" like "yes" and "no" - not sentences - but slow progress is still progress, her grandmother said.

And there's a fundraiser for Ms. McShane tonight:

• Please join us for a benefit in honor of Natasha McShane on Friday, June 4, 2010, from 5-9p.m. at Local 399’s (Operating Engineers) event hall, located at 2260 South Grove Street, Chicago, IL 60616 The event includes live entertainment, food, drinks and special guests. All funds raised will go directly to the Natasha McShane Fund, which was established to assist the McShane family with the expenses related to this tragedy.

If you can't make it, you can donate at the above link.