As many of you already know, we’re attempting to gather up donations for the family of Michael (Big Mike) Jeansonne. 100% of every penny donated will go directly to Mikey’s family, in an effort to give a small helping hand to his family in his unfortunate absence.

We have a donation account set up at Florida Parishes Bank (props to them, as they were the only bank that came correct and helped us out). You can donate money in a few different ways…
1. Come to the shop and do it in person.
2. Mail a check (payable to Small Time Skates), and make sure to note that it’s for Big Mike’s account. The shop address is 108 N. Oak St. Hammond, LA, 70401.
3. Donate safely and quickly with PayPal:

(Just click the button and you’ll be directed to a secure PayPal donations page).

We’re going to do a weekly update on the progress of the donations, on one hand to show what skaters (and anyone else down with the cause) are capable of, as well as to pressure you (in the kindest possible way) to help out a family that our community holds in high regard.

So far, we’ve had some donations walk right in the door:
Mike SanFillippo 40.00
Greg Tracy 5.00
Doug Lejeune 10.00
Kerry & Amanda 45.00

I’ll personally be putting up $20 of my own in the Pay Pal account by the time you read this. If you can send anything, please do. We’re new to fund raising, so we’re hoping you can help us make this successful.

Last thing: I want to give thanks to Dan Magee for sending over the pictures (above and below)… nearly every skater that came to the funeral brought their board, many of those (if not most) has stencils or paint pen etchings that gave Mike the props he deserved. Below are just a few of the friends and immediate family, all unified in the appreciation of a fallen soldier and icon of the Southeast Louisiana skateboard community:

If you have any non-technical questions, feel free to call the shop at 985.345.8504.
For any technical issues (PayPal, the website, etc), please email me directly at vectornerd (at) gmail.com.

We sincerely appreciate anything you can do to help. For those of us that live here in Louisiana, we lost a friend and a bro. For those of you that never met Mike… he would have been your friend too. He was that kind of guy.

Thanks from the Small Times’ family.

For further backstory, please read these articles:

1. Big Mike (the article we posted when we found out that Mike passed away)

2. Mike’s Classic Pics

3. An Open Letter from Mike’s brother Tony