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Just received word via Steve Wolfe that Rick Slaven passed away last night, April 24, 2009. May God bless his wife, son, and family in their time of grief.

I received a call from Rick's wife Marilyn this morning saying Rick died last night. He went peacefully.

No arrangements yet. He is to be cremated and said Rick didn’t want a service so to speak. Maybe a Celebration of Life?

We laughed and said maybe we could hold it at our old “watering hole”, Brennan’s Pub and Grub.

Rick would like that.

Rick awarded me my first ever POTD on his site and that recognition stimulated my desire to take better photos and improve my skills. He honored me by submitting his work from time to time to this little site as well. While he never submitted often, he did have four POTD here as well.

You can view them at his profile page.

UPDATE: Former site member Mark Westlake compiled this video tribute to Rick set to music and Rick's photos.

Just received this news from member Steve Wolfe (who received it from a friend of Rick). Your prayers for Rick and especially his family are much needed.

Steve, an update on Rick. Finally had a chance to see him on Tuesday. He’s not been having any visitors since he started chemo five or six weeks ago

It ain’t good. He is in bed except for maybe two hours a day. Hospice is now coming in to help. When I saw him, he was in bed, lying on his side facing my direction. His eyes appeared to be “glassy” and not focusing. I did all the talking and he was only able to move his head yes or no. He did try to speak once or twice and it was just a grunt that I could not understand

Was with him for about twenty minutes and then spent some time with his wife, his son, and his sister in law. His son and sister in law are here from San Francisco to help out.

Wished it was better news, but like someone said, “we are all standing in line, some just get to the front sooner than others.”

Pray, pray, pray, pray, pray!

One of the first POTD sites I submitted to and won was Rick Slaven's AzColt.com site. As many of you know, Rick has been battling brain cancer over the past few years and having small victories with many surgeries. But it's appearing the surgeries have not been enough.

His site went idle around January 22, 2009 and doing some research turned up the following posted two days later by former member Mark Westake on Shutterbugs.biz:

Hi mARK,

Im really sick...I have been falling down and I am now like I was before the first brain surgery.....Next Friday I am going back in to surgery again as the tumor is growing....this will not cure it but it will give me some more time....feel free to pass this on my brother....

Rick

He had the surgery on January 30 and Mark received this from Rick's wife Marilyn the next day.

We didn't get the results we were looking for. The tumor has spread farther into the brain. The surgeon said he has done all he can. He inserted some radioactive wafers & closed him up. Now we can only hope to buy him some quality time.

That was three weeks ago and I have nothing further.

Sickness and death are all part of this sinful world we live in, but through prayers we can still appeal to the Almighty God, Creator of this universe for His healing on Rick. At the very least, I pray that Rick's remaining time will be full of joy, peace, comfort, and the love of his family and friends.

He has meant a great deal to the POTD community and will hopefully be able to contribute even more.