The Pink Party last night was a resounding success! We raised over £200 for Breast Cancer Research and we haven't finished counting yet! A big BIG thank you to everyone who helped namely: The lovely girls... this time reading Tarot cards with all proceeds going to Rag. We're also trick or treating around halls, so if anyone wants to get involved come down dressed up and we'll exchange sweets for monies
...with communism. Or fascism. Remember Hitler? That guy burned a lot of books. He *also* did it for God. For doitalone (sorry for putting you on the spot :p) and the mention of Obama's poor fundraising practices, I want to retort with this: http://www.midwestdemocracynetwork.org/templates/media/responses.pdf Obama never made a promise with John McCain or anyone else regarding public financing...
In the last week , we as a community have raised over $500 for the Obama campaign through our fundraiser. AMAZING. I was happy just to see one or two people donate, but now we've had over 25 donations... So, if you can spare anything at all in this last week, please consider stopping by the fundraiser page and donating. Let's keep it going until we've filled that thermometer and elected Obama!
...directly to The Office of the Letters and Light , the organization responsible for Nanowrimo and Script Frenzy . They've ignited a creative spark in people of all ages, all over the world. My fundraising page is here: I need to reach $200 ASAP so I can RSVP for the event. I know money is tight all around, right now, but his group has done a lot and I think they deserve the support. Like...
So this weekend was a crazy good success and a ton of both good and bad stuff happened. From the top: Friday: 1. Held our Estate Jewelry Sale to raise funds for our Breast Cancer Walk 2. Hung out with...2. Guilt hits again as I have tried to kill myself and helped destroy my friends wife. I am a bad friend. 3. Working from home today. Yeah for Mondays. 4. Write blog from weekends events. Back to work..
...Regling at http://www.amazingfundraisers.com offers a complete package to make your school or group thousands of dollars. No buying inventory, no door to door sales. Dennis supplies a complete fundraising manual, posters, tickets and more. Your school sends home a flier with the students. You split the ticket sales with Dennis. You also keep all proceeds from concessions and other tag on fundraisers...
...to do a few weekday rides in the next two weeks as well as the last twoweekend training rides, both of which promise to be quite long. I will be ready for El Tour de Tucson on November 22. I may not improve on my time or performance from last year as I'd hoped, but I will bike 109 miles that day. Second-round fundraising e-mails go out this week and next. Click Here to Sponsor Me
November 8, 2008 from 5:30 – 8:30 p.m. Join us for our third annual “Wild about Wine” event. Enjoy tastings of a variety of wines. The Zoo will provide the perfect backdrop for this exotic evening of appetizers, music, and wine. Fee: $50.00 ($55 at the door) open for adults 21 yrs and older. All proceeds benefit conservation programs at the Zoo. Visit www.mnzoo.org to register online.
If you are interested in getting an Entertainment book this year and haven't already been accosted by someone else's child selling them let me know. Jordan's GF is trying to raise money to go to DC with...her choir for the Inauguration and she's selling them for $20. The ones she has are for the Eugene area up to Salem mostly. I have her checking to see if she can get Portland/Vancouver ones or not.
Realllly busy at work today... But wanted to THANK EVERYONE who contributed. This morning we broke the goal of raising over $1,000 to help the Obama Campaign. There may be another push next week as...I wanted to take a moment to tell everyone who is supporting this, how important it is to me. The answer to that is, "Very" Putting positive energy into the next 2 wks here. Respectfully.... -M
