#LiveLikeMatt -- and how you can help Matt Brewer's wife and family.

The cookies are from Sweets by Morgan, located at 533 Spring Street in Jeffersonville.

Starting Thursday August 9th at 10am we will have these cookies available at the shop until further notice.

There will be no price listed on these, we just ask that you make a cash donation. 100% of the money raised will be donated to the wife and family of an amazing man we all lost on Monday night.

Matt Brewer was a friend to all and enemy to none. He had a smile that would brighten your worst day and all of us here at Sweets by Morgan will now strive to #LiveLikeMatt.

If you are unable to stop by the bakery, please consider making a donation to the GoFundMe page. Every $1 helps.

At the GoFundMe page, $11,680 of the page's $10,000 goal has been raised by 248 people in one day. Get over there and add to the pot.

On behalf of Matt Brewer and to help Brook Brewer during this time, we are asking for any possible donation. The money will go towards any emergency and hospital costs, funeral and memorial service, and any extra help for Brook. Any amount at all will help the cause, and we all know Matt would have given the shirt off his back if he had one on.

Yes, indeed; we know it.

Look, I'm a jaundiced 58-year-old who has been blogging for 15 years come November. A few days ago, NAC's 13,000th post was published. Not one of them ever surpassed 11,000 page views, until the sad news came that we'd lost Matt, and I posted it.

That post?

So far it has 45,585 page views -- and 245 shares at Fb.

I'm not telling you about these statistics for any other reason than they numerically attest to the depth of love and affection we all felt for this wonderful guy. That's 45,000 page views -- and only 37,000 people in all of New Albany. That's an intensity of emotion unprecedented in my time observing local affairs.

As Andrew Nicholson pointed out earlier today, Matt's sad passing also has brought out the best in his people, who are rallying around Matt's family in this time of need. In like fashion, Andrew passes this along.

The ER at Baptist Floyd Hospital is having a cookout this Friday to benefit Brook Brewer and Matt, can you get the word out? $5 a plate can also help out with side dishes or any donations welcome. The night shift is also planning something for Saturday night, I will send details when available.

The local newspaper of record provides coverage of yesterday's gathering of hundreds at the skate park on the riverfront. There's a plan afoot to rehabilitate the skate park, and Matt was involved as a consultant. It is slated to be called the New Albany Flow Park, which is nice enough, but it's a replaceable name since overtaken by events.

By community acclamation, it's now the Matt Brewer Flow Park, or some similar wording of explicit recognition. I strongly encourage local powers that be to endorse this naming notion without further delay. Bureaucracy can be damned -- we all know Matt's name needs to be on a facility of which we all can be proud.

Let's not settle for less.

Loved ones remember New Albany man killed while skateboarding, by Chris Morris (News and Tribune)

Brewer remembered as a 'great guy'

NEW ALBANY — There was something special about Matthew Brewer according to those who knew him. He always had a smile on his face and a positive word to say.

"We always looked up to him, he had a lot of skating knowledge," Chris Flores said Tuesday afternoon at the New Albany Skatepark. "He was just a really nice guy. He was nice to everybody."

Flores, and other friends of Brewer's, attended a special gathering at the skatepark to remember their friend who was killed Monday evening around 9:30 at Spring and East Ninth streets from injuries sustained after being struck by a minivan while riding his skateboard.

The accident is still under investigation, according to New Albany Police Chief Todd Bailey.

Judy Brewer and her husband David were at the skatepark Tuesday and were moved by the number of friends and acquaintances who showed up, many with skateboards in hand to honor their son, who had adopted skateboarding as a way of life ...

Help the Carnegie Center realize its public art goal of creating "The New Albany Flow Park" by donating on Thursday, September 14 via Give For Good Louisville.

I've copied the mailer, but click through the link for a much more detailed story.

Carnegie Center for Art and History Participating in ... 2017 Give For Good Louisville

Thursday, September 14, 2017, from Midnight to Midnight

Please help us to realize our public art goal of creating "The New Albany Flow Park" by donating on Thursday, September 14 through Give For Good Louisville. Donations will be accepted from midnight to midnight on September 14. Click on our Give for Good Louisville (link below) campaign for more information about our public art project. We are thankful that the Community Foundation of Southern Indiana will be offering proportionate matches for participating nonprofits on the southern Indiana side of the river. Thank you Community Foundation of Southern Indiana!

We believe we have an excellent project with lots of community approval from the City of New Albany to area skaters whose input was so important to the redesign. Hunger Skateparks of Bloomington, IN have created a compelling new direction for what we are calling "The New Albany Flow Park" and their design plans will be unveiled to the general public at our #IAmPublicArt event set for Saturday, September 23 beginning at 6:00 PM at New Albany's Riverfront Amphitheater. After checking out our proposal, we would be honored if you would consider a donation to our goal of re-imagining this old skatepark.

Please follow this link to access our proposal. We also have a need for volunteers for our public art event and there is a sign up sheet with tasks that we need help doing. If you can't make a financial donation, please consider volunteering for our September 23 event. Thank you very much for your continued support!

How you can help make the New Albany Public Art Skatepark a reality.

Back in November, we asked the most important question. To date, City Hall hasn't answered it ... and so it goes, on and on forever.

An "artsy" refit for the waterfront skate park? Sure, but why has City Hall allowed it to become an "eyesore," anyway?

The Carnegie Center is leading this push, and says "There is so much potential with this skatepark, it's like a blank canvas just waiting for some love."

That's certainly true. It will be interesting to see how much of this love bubbles up from the grassroots, as opposed to being decreed down by the usual suspects. I'm hopeful, as always.

Skateboarders -- what can we do to help?

Help make the New Albany Public Art Skatepark a reality

Based on studies that have shown how investments in experiences over material objects lead to healthier, happier lives, the Carnegie Center has started looking for ways to provide art experiences, to create opportunities for people to not just passively look at art, but to get into it, to participate in its creation, and to physically engage with it. Today we are seeking your help to rehabilitate and reinvent our city's riverfront skatepark into a shiny, new skate-able work of public art -- A Public Art Skatepark.

Skateboarding’s history and culture is deeply intertwined with art and creation, which can be easily seen in skateboard graphics, clothing designs, and custom ramp builds. Even the act of skateboarding itself is a living embodiment of art and sport, of creativity and physical activity. The world as seen through the eyes of a skateboarder becomes an exercise of seeing untapped potential in inanimate objects. Providing interactive, inspiring objects for play at this Art Skatepark allows minds to creatively explore real world geometry and expand brain activity, which in turn builds a deeper understanding of the real world around us. Finding ways to stimulate people in our community, and promote physical, mental, and emotional health is our goal, and art is the vehicle we want to use to achieve that goal.