We had a great meeting last night, it was so nice to see those of you that I haven’t seen all winter! In addition to “newbies” George King and Sara Pokas, we also had Laura Hawes join us. Laura got my name thru Jen Frederick and emailed to say she was looking for a team. I invited her to walk with us last night and to sit in on the team meeting to see if she wanted to join the Babes. Thank you all for making her feel so welcome!
I’ve attached the training walk schedule in case some of you didn’t receive one. I’ve got a pretty busy summer so there may be days I don’t post, but be assured that the team will still be walking. The weather is getting really nice so come out and join us.
Heather has started up a blog. Now, you all know me and computers, so she’s going to be handling this for the team. Sounds like a great idea. Apparently she can take what I email about the meeting and put it on the blog so you guys can check it out and add comments. This is going to be a great new way for us to communicate as a team.
The blog site is: www.bcbabes.blogspot.com just click on the link or copy and paste the web address into your browser.
We’re going to once again put together a team 3 Day Gear order to help us all save on shipping. Check out the gear store and see if there’s anything you’d like to order. As in the past, email your order to Heather, she’ll place the order and let everyone know when it comes in. Shipping will be divided between those that have ordered and you can pay when you pick up your stuff. You’ve got to have your order to us no later than Friday, April 16th.
Team fundraisers were discussed. These have been very successful in past years, but last year not so much. We’re looking for new ideas as well as using the old tried and true.
Beth (Robinson) Milne has once again volunteered to check into a euchre fundraiser at Total Sports.
We need a new spot for the spaghetti dinner if we want to go ahead with that. I’ll start calling around to see if I can find a place. If anyone has suggestions of a place to call please let me know!
The bowling fundraisers we’ve had in the past have been successful, but last year our attendance was way down. We were fortunate that Total Sports only charged us for the bowlers we had attend since they normally charge for a minimum of 80 and we only had about 50. We’ll have to see if we can sell the tickets to make this profitable before this one is a go.
We’ll definitely have the car wash this year. Tina can get the Walgreen’s at 21 and Card again and can possibly get us at the TCF Bank in Macomb. Karin offered to see if the bank at the corner of 16/Crocker will let us have one there, too. Beth Milne brought up the very good suggestion that if we can have multiple car washes it will help out the team because this is the one thing that we don’t have to invite friends and family. We go to them so much with the other fundraiser that it’s nice to have one where we don’t have to do that, just wait for the public to come!
Bunco – Karin has been very successful in her personal fundraising this year having bunco parties. She said these are very easy to put together, it’s a fun easy to learn game and it’s something different. You can have them at your home or in halls, etc. She and Anne had one last year at a Biggbe Coffee and said it was very successful. They had about 24 players and got extra donations from people coming into the coffee shop, asking what they were doing and donating. I would love to try this. Let us know if there’s enough interest that we want to pursue this as a new idea.
As always, we need FEEDBACK!!! Can you help out with any of the fundraisers? Do you have some place we can check for spaghetti dinner, car wash, Bunco? I think the blog will be a great place to keep track of this stuff.
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