To celebrate his birthday, popular local DJ Shane Stiel will host a fundraiser for Stand For The Silent on Friday, June 29, at The Brass Rail.

Stand for the Silent was started in 2010 by a group of students from the Oklahoma State University- Oklahoma City Upward Bound Chapter after they heard the story of Kirk and Laura Smalley’s son, Ty Field-Smalley. At eleven years-old, Ty took his own life after being suspended from school for retaliating against a bully that had been bullying him for over two years.