Opening
the curtains
By Mark
Schadenberg
It’s
time to open the curtains or cut the ribbon – to officially unveil the newest
promotional vehicle for Relay For Life in Woodstock.
Scissors
please !
Understanding
the limitations of both Twitter and Facebook for length of content, but most
certainly realizing the importance of internet and social media to promote the
Woodstock event (June 14-15 at CASS), now is the moment to introduce our
committee’s blog site.
This space
will serve many functions, including featuring stories written by committee members
discussing why they participate in Relay For Life, plus updates on how you can
volunteer or join a team (www.relayforlife.ca/woodstock),
along with specific requests for areas of volunteering. For example, the
logistics crew always needs extra hands on the day of the event as the stage
must be built, tents to be raised, signage posted, and of course requiring
volunteers with the ability to construct the walkway arch for the start-finish
line. People with electrical and construction background can contact Janet
Bragg (See list below of email addresses).
Team recruitment
chair Beth Boulard last week noted that the team total is currently (as of
March 28) at 44 so far and that’s an amount trending above the pace to exceed
last year’s total of 86. The goal for this year is 87 as our committee has
adopted both the local theme of Carnival For A Cure, but is also promoting a
provincial participation ‘Power Of One’ effort – i.e. have one more team,
invite one more person to your team, one more volunteer, one more monetary pledge,
etc. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uu2NgqNPK1s)
The sponsorship
committee has reported a lot of good news so far -- the addition of several new
business / corporate supporters, including the No Frills grocery store on
Norwich Avenue.
Related
events, including the Cooking For The Cure breakfast at Swiss Chalet on
Saturday, June 8 (8 – 11 a.m.), will be talked about in this space. Don’t
forget about the FUNdraising day on May 11 at Zellers / Foodland parking lot.
You will
also read about luminaries (10 p.m. is luminary ceremony), the Survivor’s Victory
Lap (7 p.m.), the Fight Back Zone, planned entertainment and guest speakers,
and a preview of the Boston Pizza menu.
In other
words, there are many reasons to visit: www.woodstockrelay.blogspot.com
on a regular basis.
We look
forward to seeing you on June 14.
BACKGROUND
INFO
To learn more about Relay For Life in
Woodstock, plus background information on Oxford County events in Ingersoll (June
21) and Tillsonburg (June 7) as well, be sure to read other posts on this site. Updates will appear in this space as June 14 approaches, including
reminders about captain's nights at Fanshawe College (April 18 and May 15,
6:30). To sign up or sponsor a participant, see: www.relayforlife.ca/woodstock
or call the Oxford unit office at (519) 537-5592. If you would like to
contribute a story or promote a Relay team fundraiser, send details to:
mschadenberg@rogers.com.
COMMITTEE CONTACTS
Kim Whitehead
Relay For Life:
co-chair
Email: kimw_1@sympatico.ca
Keri Axon
Relay For Life:
co-chair
Email: keriaxon@gmail.com
Mark Schadenberg
Public relations
committee
Email: mschadenberg@rogers.com
Twitter:
markroyallepage
Beth Boulard
Team recruitment
committee
Email: ebaboulard@rogers.com
Bob Axon
Sponsorship committee
Email: raxon@rogers.com
Janet Bragg
Relay For Life
Volunteer coordinator
Email: janet@goodbeginningsday.com
Josie Atkinson
CCS – Oxford unit
fundraising
Email: jatkinson@ontario.cancer.ca
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