2009 Relay plans are underway...

I had my first meeting tonight for the 09 relay, they highlighted some of the changes for our relay this year, including ending events at the track at midnight and holding a candlelight vigil at the hospital, I guess they just light a bunch of candles and you can go there to pray and honor your loved ones affected by cancer. The reason they want to do that is to hopefully keep people at the track longer and to attract more people. They'll just do the overnight "fun walks" in the evening hours rather than the overnight hours. I think it will be a good thing for Plymouth County.

I got lots of handouts and everyone's team member packets. I was wondering if we could all get together as a team some weeknight soon and discuss fundraising for this year, to hopefully include a softball tournament and other ideas. I want everyone's input on our fundraising so if we could plan to get together for a pizza supper somewhere, that would be great. And then we could go through the team member packets together and answer any questions anyone has. I just think it would be great to get together for a fun time to get some planning underway. Let me know if there is a best night of the week for you and we'll get something planned.

Austin won a door prize, he went with us and got a Relay duffle bag, so that was fun. I have lots of fun stuff to share with everyone, hope to hear from EVERYONE soon!!!

Later,
Shelly

http://www.lemarssentinel.com/story/1495521.html

The above link will lead you to an article that was recently in the Le Mars newspaper about a group being formed to help those going thru cancer. Very nice article and local events coming up if anyone cares to take part.

Relay for Life 2008 was a great time, we had beautiful weather and our team walked 80 miles (320 laps!!!). We turned in $3121.50 and I have $21 more to turn in, so our total for 2008 will be $3142.50. The Le Mars Sentinel had an article in today's paper about the Relay, here's the link to that article:

http://www.lemarssentinel.com/story/1435384.html

Here are some pictures from the Relay:

Thanks to everyone for their part in making our second year a great success!!!

Bank night went well last night, turned in $2,931.00!!! They were impressed! They give one shirt per hundred dollars raised, so we qualified for 29 shirts, but I only took one for each walker on our team so ended up with 15 shirts and will get those to you at the Relay Friday.

I've still got a few loose ends to tie up for the Relay, need to make some posters and get a few other things lined up. I'm really excited for the Relay, it's gonna be a lot of fun!!!

See you there!
Shelly

The Softball tournament was a ball of fun for everyone, thanks to everyone who helped out and/or played on the team! Here's a picture of the team:





Our team will benefit to the tune of $1,600 and so far the team subtotal including team member registration fees, can drive money and individual fundraising is $2,375 so we've already passed last year's total of $2,270. Great job Team!!!!!

Planning to do an on-site fundraiser this year, but not a bake sale. Ran across this idea when researching on the Relay website last night. It's called lap beads and here's the jist of how it works:

People buy a string from us for $3 with one of those small pony beads on it, and every time they make a lap they stop at our table to pick up a bead (beads free after purchasing string/first bead), and every fourth bead is a different color so people can easily track how many miles they've walked (the string hangs on them like a necklace and they just simply take the necklace off each lap to put on another bead). Only supplies we'd need would be string and beads. Sounds like the team that does it (from another state) has had great success with it.

I'll be hunting for string and beads and this on-site fundraising will take place of our bake sale. Any comments on this?? Let me know.

Our theme for the campsite this year is "Making laps for a cure" so this lap bead fundraiser will tie along nicely into that. I have been hunting for a checkered flag table cover and some checkered penants, found some on e-bay that will look really nice around our campsite to show off our racing theme.

3 weeks til Relay....hope your fundraising is going well and see you all soon.
Reminder: Bank night is May 30, please have any fundraising you've collected to me by then so we can get our t-shirts that night.

Thanks to everyone!!!

CONCESSION STAND SCHEDULE

This is the final concession stand schedule.


Friday, May 2, 2008:

6 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. Carmel Church Volunteers

7:30 p.m. - 9 p.m. Mindy Scheitler & Cari Roorda

9 p.m. - 10:30 p.m. Jeannie Scheitler & Shelly Clay

Saturday, May 3, 2008:

8 a.m. - 9:30 a.m. Jeannie Scheitler & Shelly Clay

9:30 a.m. - 11 a.m. Wendi Kats & Kristi Segar

11 a.m. - 2:30 p.m. Carmel Church Volunteers

2:30 p.m. - 5 p.m. Jen Kuhlman & Jeannie Scheitler

5 p.m. - 7 p.m. Carmel Church Volunteers

7 p.m. - 8:30 p.m. Cari Roorda & Jill Johnson

8:30 p.m. - 10 p.m. Shelly Clay & Betty Scheitler


Again, please let me know if you have a conflict with your assigned time, otherwise will see you then! If you would like to work the concession stand and have not been assigned a time, please call or e-mail me asap!

Thank you!!!

I've been working on some ideas for the Dodgeball fundraiser, found some temporary tattoos on ebay for cheap, here's a picture of them:

Thought the tattoos would be a fun idea and if they go over well maybe will get more for the actual relay ($10.00 for 100 tats).

Also, was thinking of ideas of what we can sell at the bake sale cause I'm thinking there will be at least one other team there with a bake sale. So, I am going to buy lots of suckers in asst. flavors/colors cause they are easy to sell and require little handling. A good way to keep the bake sale simple would be to only sell items by the baggie (trail mix, candy mix, puppy chow, chex mix, etc.) I plan to man the bake sale table, would be great if someone else could man it with me or take over at some point so I can watch/participate in the activities of the day....let me know if that would work for you. The tournament is March 29 so it's just a little over a month away, please be thinking of what you'd like to bring.

I haven't had any updates from the relay people, hoping to get the newsletter soon so I'll have an update for you all.

For now,

Shelly