Wednesday, April 25, 2012
50/50 RAFFLE TICKETS
The
North Hills Relay 50/50 tickets sell for $5.00 each, and our team gets $2.50
credit for each one we sell. Since this
is a site wide raffle, not just a team raffle, the pot gets pretty big. Last year’s total was $1600.00 for ACS &
$1600.00 for the winner. No guarantees,
but I would think the take would be at least a
couple hundred dollars. Currently
only a few team members are selling tickets, but we can have as many tickets as
we’d like. So just let Melita know if you
are welling to try to sell some.
Relay is almost here!
Relay will be here in about 10 weeks so please turn in the following paperwork...
Suggested donation is $10.00 for each luminary.
Participation form - that
I need each person who wants to be part of relay ,to complete and return to
me. If you attended the dance there is
no need to pay the $10.00 participation fee.
Luminary form - which
you will notice are a little different than in years past. You must now specify weather you would like
your luminary in memory, honor or in tribute to. The memorial picture idea I mentioned before
has been scrapped.
Luminary
sales count toward our team total, and are a very easy way to raise money. I have only attached one luminary form but,
please feel free to copy it or ask me for additional forms. Why not ask family, friends or co-workers if
they would like to buy a luminary or two.
Suggested donation is $10.00 for each luminary.
Track Sign form - If
you can get a business owner to advertise, or a individual or group to post a
message on a track sign, for the price of $100.00, our team will be credited
for that amount.
Survivor form – If
you are a survivor, please fill out the form, and join us at the survivor
reception. If you aren’t, please give
your form to a cancer survivor, and invite them to come to Relay.
If you need a copy of any of these forms, please ask Melita for a copy or check back in a day or two and copies will be posted here.
On the day of Relay there will
be a lot going on and we could use your help.
Rita Lach has graciously volunteered to give massages to weary
walkers. Bev will be at the grill making
pizza’s for hungry walkers, and off course we have to make funnel cakes and
lemonade, and it was suggested if it is going to be hot we try fruit kabobs as
well.
So,
we will need help making and selling those food items throughout the day. It’s not fair to have only a few people do
all the work.
Another
area where we will need your help is with the luminaries. Christine, Andi and I are on the Relay
committee, and one of the areas we chose to handle is the luminary
ceremony. So we will need lots of help
filling bags and setting them out around the track. We are hoping many hands will make light
work.
We
have a few nice ideas for decorating our camp site. Thank you everyone for all your input.
If
you would like to dress up for the opening lap, you will need to make your own
costume. It was suggested we dress as
characters you would see at a sideshow.
One last thing—please tell your family and friends about
Relay and ask them to stop by on June 23rd and join in the fun.
MARCH MADNESS Fundraiser
Many
thanks to the Maurhoff family for coming up with the idea to have a March
Madness basketball poll, and then running with it. They single handedly set the whole thing up,
sold the majority of the slots, and then managed the results up dates on the
newly created Mel’s Maniacs blog. That
way, the people who bought tickets didn’t have to follow the tournament, but
could go to the blog to see what teams were still in.
Since
there were 64 blocks to sell, and we sold them at $10.00 each, Mel’s Maniacs
got $320.00, and the winner got $320.00.
Congratulations
to Ray Stein who was the winner. Ray
graciously donated $100.00 of his winnings back to the team.
Thank
you Ray, and anyone else who bought slots, and most importantly to the
Maurhoffs. Great idea!!
Watch for a football poll
in the fall.
SARRIS CANDY BAR SALES
Several people have had great success selling the Sarris Candy. The candy bars seem to be selling better than
the pretzels, so we are now going with an assortment of 5 different flavors of
candy bars in one box. Mel’s Maniacs
now has an account at Sarris, so we can keep selling them up to the day of
Relay. If you’d like to give it a try,
please let me know. I’ll be glad to
bring them to you. They sell for $1.00 a
piece, and there are 32 in each box.
Our Annual Dance was a HUGE Success!
Thanks
to Many of You Maniacs...
Our
Annual Dance was a HUGE Success!
We
sold 240 tickets, and there was a waiting list of 35 more who didn’t get to attend this years dance. We have already had people tell us to reserve
them a table for next year, and that we should have two dances a year. So we can be proud of how our dance has become an event people look
forward to each year. The dance raised
$6,700.00, which is $200.00 more than last year.
To
those of you who helped with this year’s dance, I can not thank you
enough. Whether you donated door
prizes, or went to businesses and got donations, if you made a gift basket, or
gave items to be used in our wine or alcohol baskets, if you helped sell raffle
tickets at the dance, or sat at home and tore tickets in strips of 7’s, if you
helped setup the night before, or clean up after the dance, if you helped
decorate, or lent your expertise to the power point presentation, or did one of
numerous other things that needed to be done, whatever you did, big or small,
please know that your dedication is appreciated by myself and the rest of the
team.
Another
reason we did so well is because Dave Beran gives us an outstanding price on
the food, the D.J. only asks $100.00 for his services, the fireman give the
hall to us at no cost because there are 4 firemen on our Relay team, and the
bartenders (who told us they love to work our
dance), donated their tips ($105.00) back to us. We have been blessed to have so many good
people in our lives who are all willing to help out.
Once again I have to say
THANK YOU.
Wednesday, April 4, 2012
Congratulations!
Congratulations to Ray Stein (and Kentucky) for winning the March Madness pool!
Thank you to everyone who participated and made this year's March Madness a little more exciting (at least for me - I actually watched a basketball game this year!).
Keep checking back here for updates on Mel's Maniacs and all our fundraising endeavors!
Thank you to everyone who participated and made this year's March Madness a little more exciting (at least for me - I actually watched a basketball game this year!).
Keep checking back here for updates on Mel's Maniacs and all our fundraising endeavors!
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