Saturday's festivities in Maurice were really nice, great weather and great turnout for the families. Channel 9 was there and had a story on the 10 o'clock news. Here's a link to that on-line story:
http://kcautv.com
It's for the Kids is the headline and it'll play the 3 minute story just like you're watching the news. Pretty cool!

Have a good week!

I received a nice thank you note in the mail Tuesday from the Relay chairpeople saying thanks for participating and that it was a huge success "because of you", meaning our team!!! That was a mood booster for me so wanted to pass it along.

Jeannie and I talked and we're going to sell popcorn at the Maurice ballfield sometime in August when Jed's slow pitch team has tournaments. I'll keep everyone posted on that cause all proceeds will be donated to the Cancer Society (we were able to get the popcorn donated).

Hope to see some red shirts Saturday in Maurice!!!

Shelly

I did get ahold of the Pastor for the Maurice Church and he said they already have concession stands in place for the movie and ball game. So we won't be making popcorn or selling pop, we'll just go to support the families. If you can attend, please wear your Team Mitchel shirt.

I'll work on getting something set up for a fundraiser for our team and will let you know what's planned!

Have a good week!!

No update yet, still waiting for a call back from the Maurice people. Will let you know when I know more.

Have a good weekend!

Get ready!

The Maurice Reformed Church is holding a benefit for three local families, including Jed and Jeannie, and I'm checking into our Team selling popcorn/pop at the event! Andy's dad has a popcorn machine so we'll just need to get ahold of a ton of popcorn, bags and oil, as well as cans of pop. The following link tells all about the event, which will be next Saturday, July 14, as Jeannie mentioned on the carepage:

http://mauricereformed.org/For_The_Kids.htm

Be sure to check it out! I thought it would be nice for our team to be there, at least as many as can be anyway, to support Jed and Jeannie and to be there in memory of our sweetie Mitchel. Of course all the proceeds we earn will go to the American Cancer Society; and, of course pending approval by the church that we participate. I plan to make the call today so will update as soon as I know more.

Please plan to be there if you can. If you have a car/tractor you can enter for the car/tractor show, please do. I have the phone number of who you need to call to enter your car and/or tractor so please e-mail if you need that information.

Hope you are all doing well and hope to see all my red-shirt friends soon!!!

Shelly

Hello team! Not much to report today. Ice Cream Days are here! That's kind of exciting for Le Mars people. I haven't heard a total yet on how much our Relay raised, but will update when I do. I know we're up to $2,270.00 (had another $20 come in!).

As a goal for next year's Relay, I thought we'd shoot for between $2,500 and $3,000. Given the little time we had this year and what we accomplished, I'd say this goal is a good target. Be thinking about ways to fundraise all year long. Our Team will have one major fundraiser, yet to be determined, but our individual fundraising was a huge success this year so don't stop just because the Relay's a year away. Feel free to keep asking people for donations and we can get those sent in to get a tally running for next year.

Everyone have a good rest of the week!

We had another team donation come in, another $250.00. That brings us to $2,250.00 and the second place team collected $2560!!! We are awesome!!!

Andy and I are contemplating if we want to volunteer to work at the Relay next year, we have the phone number of the lady to contact. We had some good ideas come up in discussion and thought maybe our input would put a new spin on the Relay and hopefully get more people involved, especially overnight. Most teams packed up and only maybe 5 teams were there overnight, sometimes there were only 4-5 people walking. I can't say we constantly had someone walking, but we were there. The contests they had overnight were fun, but with so few people around, they didn't even do some of them. I guess I just saw a lot of room for improvement and thought they could use someone to step in and suggest new, fun ideas that would keep people at the Relay.

Will let everyone know what we decide.

Next week is Ice Cream Days in Le Mars so I'm going to brainstorm and see if there's something we could maybe pull together during that.

Also had the idea last night that it would be fun if the Relay would start up a Relay for Life basketball or softball or volleyball league, where us teams would compete against each other. Would get people involved and active. Again, just ideas that pop into my brain.

Well, everyone have a nice week! We bought a cheap-o popup camper last night so hoping to get some camping done this summer. Can't believe it's June 6 already!!

Take care,
Shelly