Awareness calendar

August is ...
Great American Eat Right Challenge (Aug. 14)

Resources for Healthy Living include....
Lower your cancer risk with timely screening tests, help to quit smoking, good food choices, and an active lifestyle.

Check this link out, from www.cancer.org
http://www.cancer.org/docroot/PED/ped_3.asp

Congratulations HCMHS

Our mighty Hill Country Memorial Hospital team is still working away with fundraisers!!
I just picked up another check that will put them over the $10,000 mark!!! So, add them to the list of $10,000 teams and give them a high-five next time you anyone who works there.

Way to go team!!

July Cancer Awareness

July Cancer Awareness Calendar

July is UV Safety Month

Please were sunscreen when you are taking your family trip this summer, and everyday when you leave your home. Ladies, make sure your makeup and moisturizer has sunscreen in them. This will keep you from skin cancer and keep those wrinkles away!!!

Way to go Team Gatti's

I thought I should make a note that Mrs Schnelle call me the other day saying she had some ink jet cartridges for me if I was still sending them off for our Relay For Life. I went and picked up what turned out to be a bag full of cartridges!!!

Thank you so much!!

PS...the check was received in the amount of $45, so I have added that to your team total!!

June, Awareness Calendar

June...
National Cancer Survivors Day (June 1)
Men's Health/Cancer Awareness (Father's Day-June 15)
National Men's Health Week (June 8-14)

Final Awards

Becase this post had people's names listed, I have deleted it. I was finding these names on strange websites.

If you are interested in seeing the final list of awards, please send me an email to relay2007@hotmail.com and I will gladly show you the list!!

Thanks! ARAH

Link for pictures....

Please use the following link to view the pictures from this year's Relay For Life!!! A special thanks goes to Der Foto Club for taking pictures. This link also includes the pictures from my camera. If you have pictures you would like to share, please do so! You can email them to me at relay2007@hotmail.com or call me and we can set up a time for me to pick up a CD.

Enjoy...
http://www.kodakgallery.com/I.jsp?c=zgyg4us.48x9k6oo&x=0&y=-oy4ah2&localeid=en_US

You are also able to order prints of these pictures from Kodak. Let me know if you need any help!

ARAH

Vote!!!!

Hello everyone!!!! Guess what we get to do for next year!!!!! Go to http://www.relayforlife.org/relay/ to vote for next year's t-shirt!! PS...My vote goes to the Celebrate shirt (last one)!!! ARAH

Vote for your favorite 2009 Relay For Life T-Shirt Design
For the first time in Relay For Life's 25-year history, the participants themselves will select the nationwide Relay For Life shirt design. Three artists have created one-of-a-kind Relay designs based on next year's theme, 'Celebrating 25 Years of HOPE.' Let us know which YOU think best represents your Relay For Life experience. Voting will be open from 8:00 a.m. ET on May 19, 2008 until 5:00 p.m. ET on June 1, 2008.The winning design will be posted on the home page of RelayForLife.org on June 2, 2008.The winning design will appear on 2009 Relay For Life t-shirts and promotional materials.

Thank You notes....

I am still writing Thank you notes, and I thought I should post some lists here.

Thursday set up... Pete J, Bruce H, Mike H, Bobby B, JD

Friday set up...Carol and Bobby B, Jared K, Megan S, Slick J, Mara H, Leslie H, Brittany and Jess N, Michael H, Shelley J and Robin & Frances

Opening Ceremony...VFW Post 7105, Carin T, FHS Cheerleaders, Alice J, Mayor J Hoover and Don D

Fight Back Ceremony...Bob R, Cristi McAnelly, Mindy K

Luminaria Ceremony...Mark and Kate H, Carin T and Matt W (music), Ian Blackie (bag pipes), HEB Pharmacy (luminaria bags), Gil and the Boy Scouts (set up)

Saturday Morning break down...Jared K, Pete and Alice J, Carol B and Gil B

Special Thanks to....Treibs Entertainment, Attic Storage, Class A Rentals, Fbg Equipment, Stroeher & Olfers, Dietel and Son Printing, MSW Computer Service, Marquee Tents, Vicki Bonewitz, Rather Sweet, HEB Bakery, Creative Awards, Der Foto Club, Spencer Durham, Cody Mitchell (video), Fbg Medical Equipment, Lions Club (breakfast), FISD

Committee Members...
Cristi McAnelly - ACS Community Manager
Arah D - Chair
Pete J - Logistics
Susan H - Sponsorship
Sue - Registration
Myrtle R - Registration
Rilda W - Raffle
Ann D - Silent Auction
Kim J
Vickie K
Debbie and Bob R - Survivors
Monica G - Onlice
Megan S - Marketing
Sonya T - Activities
Sandra D - Accounting
Gladys R - Accounting

Sponsors to support...

2008 Gillespie County Relay For Life Sponsors...

Survivor Sponsor

Frantzen, Kaderli and Klier Insurance

Platinum Sponsor

James Avery, AAA Self-Storage, HEB, Hill Country Memorial Helath System

Gold Sponsor

Dr Jose Lopez & Dr Mark DeLeon, Fredericksburg Oil and Gas, First Baptist Church, Fredericksburg Clinic, Gattis Pizza, Dr David Jones & Dr Michael Gagnon

Silver Sponsor

American Bank of Texas, CTEC, Century 21, Chase Bank, Creative Awards, Edward Jones, Friends of Butch Duecker, In Memory of Kenneth Piest, St Mary's Catholic School & Church, Security State Bank and Trust, Blanco National Bank, The Secret Garden, Treibs Entertainment, Vereins Quilt Guild, Wildseed Farm

Bronze Sponsor

Arrowhead Bank, Attic Storage, Billy Johnson-State Farm, Boot Ranch, Braden Dermatology, Bryla & Schoessow Law Office, Class A Rentals, Clear River Pecan, Curves, Dartez Bros, Fiedler Home and Ranch, Fredericksburg Farms, Guaranty Bank, Hometown Realty, Slick and Barbara Johnson, Kelly & Nevins, KFAN/KEEP/KNAF, Kiwanis Club, Knopp Health Care, Nizon Real Estate, Opa's Smoked Meats, Parts Unknown, Reeh Plumbing, Thomas Schmidt DDS, SM&PT, Stroeher and Olfers Inc

It's a Relay baby boy

I thought we should have a semi-baby shower for Cristi and Baby Brody!! I will have a basket of Baby goodies at our Wrap Up event on Monday. If you would like to add to the basket, or give Cristi a baby gift, please bring it!!!

Wrap up is here!!

I want to invite everyone (Committtee, Team Captains, and all the individuals who raised $1,000) to our Wrap Up event.

Monday, May 12th, 6pm
Pete and Alice Jensen's home

Please bring any extra materials you may still have (lumimaria, envelopes, or raffle tickets) as well as any additional money. Team Captains please relay this info to any of your team members who raised $1,000 and anyone who might be interested in being on the 2009 committee!!!

Alice will be serving Taco Salad.

May- Awareness Calendar

May is...
Skin Cancer Detection and Prevention Month

Comment back and let us know what you are doing to promote Skin Cancer Detection and Prevention Month.

WE DID IT!!!

We survived the 2008 Relay For Life!!! At closing ceremony our current dollar amount is $116,742.

Way to go!!! and Thank you to everyone that helped!!!

Notes from Monday

Team Captains, Remember...
*All onsite food needs to have a permit from Kelly Olfers at City Hall 997-7521. Kelly is not going to charge anyone for the permit, but you HAVE to have one if you are cooking anything beyond a ‘bake sale.’

*Your campsite is 10X20, and all are facing inward to help promote onsite fundraising. It will also help to have signs to promote your fundraiser

*Bring team signs for your campsite and to carry on the team lap. I would love to have spirit signs to cheer the survivors all the way around the track!!

*No pets…sorry, the schools rule not ours.

*Please bring lighters for your team to use during the Luminaria ceremony.

*If anyone has pictures from last year, especially of closing ceremony, please bring them to me, or email them.

Last meeting!!

Team Captains!!
Our next meeting will be at the Football field Monday, April 28th, 6:30pm. If you have not already picked your campsite, you can do it then.

Please use this time to drop off all money, luminaries and raffle tickets. Luminaries and raffle tickets will be available to pick up.

Team Captains will be given their team member’s shirts at this meeting. The next opportunity to pick up t-shirts will be at Relay. Ideas:

Team Captain info...

*Please make team (name) signs for your campsite.
*Bring and item (or 2) to add to our silent auction, the money will go to your team!
*We will have a survivor lap and a caregiver lap. Please bring your spirit to cheer them on, this can be noise makers, signs (WE LOVE OUR SURVIVORS, SURVIVORS ROCK, CAREGIVERS RULE!) or just some extra spirit to cheer them around the track.

Bring:
*Lighters for your team members, we will use this during the luminary ceremony.
*Your team fundraiser, and
*Cash for all the great onsite fundraisers!!
*Tent, chairs, sleeping bag, water, snacks, sunscreen!!
*Camera and comfortable shoes.
*For the games - Funny hat, Mr. Relay stuff (male team member competes in a pageant…in drag), Karaoke voice and lots of spirit to last thru the night!

Relay For Life offers you...

The American Cancer Society and Relay For Life offers you a place where you can use your talents to make a difference in teh world - a place where you can save lives while fulfilling yours!!

If you would like to donate your talent to this year's Relay For Life, please contact me thru this site or call my cell phone at 512/644-5307

April

One-third of all cancer deaths in the U.S. could be prevented by following a healthy diet and maintaining a healthy weight.

Fight Back. with Nutrition

This year's theme is Celebrate. Remember. Fight Back. This is the theme for decorations, costumes and anywhere we can incorporate it.
http://www.relayforlife.org/ has some more ideas and direction for Celebrate. Remember. Fight Back.

Celebrate the lives of those who have battled cancer.
Remember loved ones lost to the disease.
Fight Back against a disease that takes too much.

How do you Celebrate. Remember. Fight Back. ??
Why do we Celebrate. Remember. Fight Back. ??
Who helps you Celebrate. Remember. Fight Back. ??
When do you Celebrate. Remember. Fight Back. ??
Where do you (or can we all) Celebrate. Remember. Fight Back. ??

Just a few left

Committee/Team Captain Meeting & Bank Night

April 14, 2008

Committee meets @ 5:30/Team Captains @ 6:30

Place: CTEC

Committee/Team Captain Meeting & Bank Night

April 28, 2008

Committee meets @ 5:30/Team Captains @ 6:30

Place: FHS Football Stadium

Cancer Awareness Calender - April

April 2007 is...
National Cancer Control Month
National Minority Cancer Awareness Week (April 15-21)
National Volunteer Week (April 15-21)

To clarify the rumors....

I got a call today stating team members were not participating in this year's Relay For Life because the American Cancer Society supported Pro-Choice organizations.

My answer....No! The American Cancer Society financially funds
R...research
E...education
A...advocay
S...services
ON to a cure for all types of cancer.

They do not support other organizations at all, unless they are..
R...Researching cures for cancer
E...Educating people about cancer and cancer prevention
A...Advocating about the American Cancer Society and it's cause, or
S...Supporing a Service provided by the American Cancer Society

The official answer from the VP of communications for the American Cancer Society...
The American Cancer Society does not support Pro-Choice organizations. There was an instance, last year where the American Cancer Society funded a grant for Smoking Cessation classes in a clinic. The funds were used to train the teachers and support the Smoking Cesation program. It was later found out that Planned Parenthood classes were also taught within the same clinic. These were completely different programs that just happened to be taught within the same building.

I hope this clears up the issue. If there is anything further, please ask me. I will come talk to your organization or send you to the official people within the American Cancer Society.

PLEASE HELP ME CLEAR THESE ISSUES, spread the word and always ask! Dont just assume the rumors are correct.

Thank you, ARAH

Team Captains To-Do

*turn in money as you go, next bank night is April 14th!!
*organize walking times throughout the night (there is a sign up sheet in the Team Captain pkt)
*keep track of how many laps are walked throughout the night
*plan your onsite fundraiser

plan your campsite decorations (Celebrate. Remember. Fight Back.) and logistics for set-up and tear down

Bring....walking shoes & socks, sunglasses, camera

Wish List

Arah’s Wish list:
*We NEED more 2X4 or 2X8 lumber for the luminary bags. If you have any scraps, or know of a building site, please let me or Pete know….ASAP
*I need a computer with Publisher, to edit our program.
*Angels for Luminaria ceremony
*Group to hand out programs at registration tent
*Person or group to man the info tent
*Person to plan the Wrap Up event
*Lots of onsite fundraisers!!!

Team Captain Notes

Team Captains Bring….lighters, cooler with water and snacks, chairs, sleeping bags, Silent Auction Basket and CASH for the onsite fundraising!! There will be lots of food and goodies!!! Plan your onsite fundraising now!!

Some great onsite fundraiser ideas include….team sports, such as volleyball, washers, horseshoes, etc. Let me know and I can spread the work to register early at your campsite.

No pets, PLEASE abide by this rule, it is the school’s rule and we don’t want to loose the privilege of using the stadium as out location.

Pick Up Raffle tickets at Fredericksburg Standard and Luminaries at Curves.

You Did It!! You Did It!!

The website passed $1,000!!! WOW, that is amazing. Since it was our first year to have the online option, I had low expectations during our learning curve.

Thanks for proving me wrong! Way to go! Check out the website http://events.cancer.org/rflgillespietx While you are there, register a team, register participant or survivor, or make a donation!!!!!!!!!!!

Fundraising ABC's

Here are some fundraising ABCs....

http://www.societylink.org/portal/server.pt/gateway/PTARGS_0_4192456_1623240_0_0_18/RFL%20ABCs%20of%20Fundraise%20Sheet.pdf

Every team captain should check this out!!!!!

St Patrick's Day meeting

Reminder...

We have a meeting on Monday, March 17th.

It is St Patrick's Day!! So, lets celebrate GREEN...with Purple!! At Clear River Pecan.

Please bring your Team and Team Member Registration forms.

Be there or be square....

Anybody there?

Sometimes I wonder if anyone reads these, so I think Ill make a contest....

I have a Relay prize for the #__ person to leave a comment!!! I cant tell you the number, but it is between 1 and 10.

Happy commenting!!!

3-3 mtg

A few notes from the last meeting...
Team Captains can pick up Luminaries at Curves.
Team Captains can pick up Raffle tickets at the Fredericksburg Standard

Tshirts will be ordered right after the 3-17 meeting, so please have your team members registered!

We have got to get started with Team fundraisers!!! Please support the other teams, so they can support you and let me know about your fundraisers, so I can help get the word out.

Thanks for all you do!!
ARAH

Fundraisers

April 17th & 23 Zonta's 'Beat Goes On' Event at Hondo's 5-10pm
April 12th Garage Sale - Standard Stars @ Fredericksburg Standard
1st weekend in April - bake sale in front of Chase Bank- Pink Panthers
April 13th - Bowling Tournament - Pink Panthers

On going fundraisers...
*http://www.cheerstothecook.com/ has a new Relay meal every month
*The Secret Garden is donating the money from their 'boob' shirts to Relay. If you havent see these, you HAVE to go by there!!
*Ink Jet cartridges! I have envelopes and labels if yo need them, or bring your cartridges to a meeting.

Let me know about your fundraisers so I can help you promote them!!

Oprah's Big Give

I am watching Oprah's Big Give tonight. Each of the teams are working to raise money in creative ways. Hummm....that sounds familiar.

Team Captains-use these as ideas for your team fundraisers!!

*Fashion show-round up several of the shops in town. Businesses love to advertise!
*Block party-outdoor carnival style honoring survivors
*Church-speaking and/or singing to ask for donations

March is Colon Cancer Awareness Month

Each year 130,000 Americans are diagnosed with colorectal cancer.

I can fight back against colon cancer....
*I can get tested for colon cancer if I am 50 or older. I have the power to avoid colon cancer by getting tested.
*I can encourage a friend or family member to get tested for colon cancer.
*I can make a personal commitment to decrease my risk. Colon cancer risk factors are age, family history, an drace, but other factors - suck as smoking, obesity, and diet also impact my risk.

Check out the full calendar http://www.cancer.org/docroot/MED/content/MED_1_Cancer_Calendar.asp
Lets incorporate these into our Relay and fundraisers!!

Monday meeting

Our next Team Captain meeting is this Monday, March 3rd, 6:30pm at Clear River Pecan. (Committe will meet at 5:30)

Please bring your participant forms, or make sure everyone on your team has registered online to guarantee a tshirt.

This also means ALL teams need to be registered. If you do not want to register online, come to the meeting with your $20 registration fee, there will be plenty of forms there.

I have heard several really great fundraising ideas from teams this year!!! Come share your ideas and advertise your event!!

Another sneaky meeting!!! Here it comes..

Our next meeting in this Monday, March 3rd, 6:30pm at Clear River Pecan.

Please bring your participant forms, or make sure everyone has registered online by Monday to guarantee a tshirt.

This also means ALL teams need to be registered. If you do not want to register online at http://events.cancer.org/rflgillespietx, then come to the meeting with your $20 registration fee, there will be plenty of forms there.

Today I was busy....

I wanted to make a few notes for everyone....
Since I am only working a few days a week at HEB, I am spending my other days driving around Fredericksburg!! In the last few days I have talked to A LOT of people about becoming sponsors and having a team for our amazing Gillespie County Relay For Life!!!

Please help me find even more teams and sponsors. It is all of our job to help spread the word.

GO Relay!!!!

Fundraisers

I would like to throw out a discussion topic on fundraisers. We are well into the time frame where we need to be having our fundraisers.


I have heard a lot of great ideas this year. It is so much easier to get people to give you money for something they need or can use...or a good time.


I was in Creative Awards today, and realized that they can make A LOT of different items!! How about a Koozie with your info and the Relay logo? Water...almost any business could sell bottles of water. This is a great option vs a soda; plus, when you empty your bottle you could leave it on your desk or counter and ask people to drop their dimes in!!! One water bottle holds $100 worth of dimes!!! WOW!

Today I heard a twist on the penny drive idea. If you make the Penny Drive a competition between departments, classes, or offices, the buckets of pennies can grow fast!!! Here is the twist....pennies count, but 'silver money' counts against your total. Therefore the department that is winning would have the other departments putting nickles, dimes and quarters in to try to reverse it. GREAT IDEA!!!

Please comment back and give me some of your fundraising ideas!!! Lets work together to benefit Realy For Life and the American Cancer Society!!!

Feb 4 Meeting Minutes

Notes from the February 4th meeting and General Update
This was a brain storming committee meeting. We discussed possible new teams. Each member left with a list of people to contact. Please follow up on your list and let me know if you need anything from me. Team Captains, remember you get Ultimate Team points for recruiting a new team!!!

We also brainstormed fundraisers with the Team Captains. There were some great ideas, plus I added a few.
-Softball, bowling, washers, or golf tournament
-Printing water bottles and selling them, possibly at the above tournaments.
-Father/Daughter dance
-www.RelayGear.com is full of sellable items, such as the purple wristbands!!!
-Making bookmarks with drawings and/or poems.
-I have a contact to makes bumper stickers, if anyone is interested.
-Penny Drive (this would be a great competition between teams).
-Charging for the ability to wear denim on Friday, or Casual Friday.
-Making hand made items to sell (buttons, tshirts, birdhouses, bracelets, etc)
-Letter writing is the #1 fundraiser! If you register online, you can email templates they already have set up!!
-Charging for man-power to help set up or break down your campsite at Relay.
Let me know if anyone is interested in more information on any of these. I would love to hear your ideas!!!

●Kim Jung has Team Captain packets at the Fredericksburg Standard. Or, you can register your team and participants on our new website http://events.cancer.org/rflgillespietx On this site, you will be able to register your team, as an individual, or donate!!!
●Each Team Captain was asked to donate a Silent Auction item or basket.
●This year’s theme is Celebrate. Remember. Fight Back. Check out www.RelayForLife.org for more information on our theme.
●This year we are introducing an Ultimate Team competition. There is a point system related to team involvement!! The more involved you and your team are, the more points you can earn.
●There are a new set of rules for Youth teams. These rules will be available at all Team Captain meetings and required for youth teams.
►Our next meeting is March 3rd, at Clear River Pecan. Committee will meet at 5:30 & Team Captains at 6:30.
►Please remember to save your Ink Jet cartridges! If you or your business needs any of the postage paid envelopes, I have plenty! Otherwise, please bring any you have to a meeting.
►Also, please stop by www.cheerstothecook.com, each month there is a Relay meal, which is one of their team fund raisers!
►Email me about your upcoming fundraisers, so we can get the info up on the website.

Please check the website and/or blog often! http://events.cancer.org/rflgillespietx.com http://gillespierealy.blogspot.com This is also a new exciting site www.RelayForLife.org

Arah Duecker 512-644-5307 or relay2007@hotmail.com

WOW

WOW, this meeting really snuck up on me!!
Monday February 4th is our next meeting
Committee meets at 5:30pm
Team Captains meet at 6:30pm

Location is Clear River Pecan, we will be upstairs, and feel free to get a sandwich for supper while you are there!

I need your help..

I am asking for everyone's help to recruit new team this year. Please help spread the word about our wonderful Relay For Life.

We need a good representation of our county in our Relay teams. Team Captain packets can be picked up from Kim at the Fredericksburg Standard, or you can register teams at http://events.cancer.org/rflgillespietx

Help spread the word, but let me know if I need to help convince someone!!!!

Kick Off Mtg Minutes

January 21, 2008
Gillespie County Relay For Life Kick Off Meeting Minutes!!

I must start by saying thank you! Thank you to everyone who helped to make this a successful event.

Our goal for the 2008 Relay For Life is $145,000 with 45 teams. It will take a commitment from everyone to accomplish these goals. Please help spread the work about Relay…to potential sponsors, teams, and committee members. I am more then happy to speak to or contact anyone.

●This year’s theme is Celebrate. Remember. Fight Back.
●This year we are introducing an Ultimate Team competition. There is a point system related to team involvement!! The more involved you and your team are, the more points you can earn.
●We introduced the new website http://events.cancer.org/rflgillespietx On this site, you will be able to register your team, as an individual, or donate!!! Hurry and register your team before Monica changes the fee to $20 (the 21st was supposed to be the last day for $10). PLEASE go and at least register as a participant.
●There are a new set of rules for Youth teams. These rules will be available at all Team Captain meetings and required for youth teams.
●We had a mini-Luminaria Ceremony, to show the process we will be using this year.

We were blessed with two special guests. The first of the evening was Mel Keyser. He is a Cancer Survivor, and was selected by the American Cancer Society as a Hero of Hope to represent the American Cancer Society for 2008.

Our second speaker was Madison Torres. She is 9 years old, and a 9 year survivor who understands the true meaning of Relay. She is an inspiration to everyone who gets the opportunity to hear her.

►Please remember to save your Ink Jet cartridges! If you or your business needs any of the postage paid envelopes, I have plenty! Otherwise, please bring any you have to a meeting.

Updated Meeting Schedule

Please note: There are some updates to our meeting locations. CTEC has several conflics on our meeeting dates, so those meetings have been moved to Clear River Pecan, in their upstairs room.

Committee/Team Captain Meeting
February 4. 2008
Committee meets @ 5:30/Team Captains @ 6:30
Place: Clear River Pecan (upstairs)

Committee/Team Captain Meeting & Bank Night
March 3, 2008
Committee meets @ 5:30/Team Captains @ 6:30
Place: Clear River Pecan

Committee/Team Captain Meeting & Bank Night
March 17, 2008
Committee meets @ 5:30/Team Captains @ 6:30
Place: Clear River Pecan

Committee/Team Captain Meeting & Bank Night
March 31, 2008
Committee meets @ 5:30/Team Captains @ 6:30
Place: CTEC

Committee/Team Captain Meeting & Bank Night
April 14, 2008
Committee meets @ 5:30/Team Captains @ 6:30
Place: CTEC

Committee/Team Captain Meeting & Bank Night
April 28, 2008
Committee meets @ 5:30/Team Captains @ 6:30
Place: FHS Football Stadium

Gillespie County Relay for Life
Place: FHS Football Stadium
Friday, May 2nd thru Saturday May 3rd, 2008

Website is up!!!!

I have been working with Monica all afternoon, and I am ready to introduce everyone to the new Gillespie County Relay website. This site will be able to accept donations directly to your team!!

You can go ahead and register your team and pay the $10 registration fee by credit card, or click pay by check and bring the $10 to Kick Offf. Participants aree able to register as individuals or right on their team. http://events.cancer.org/rflgillespietx

There are about 5 teams who have already paid. If you are one of these team captains, please click on pay by check and we will get it straightened out at kick off.

I registered my dad as a survivor and can even add our picture to his page!!!

Kick off!!!!!

It is time to start Kick Off our 2008 Relay For Life!!!
You are invited to our Official Kick Off event to help us
Celebrate. Remember. Fight Back.
Monday January 21st, 5:30 at CTEC.

There will be Gatti's Pizza, Door Prizes and Activities!!
● This will be the last day to register your team for only $10.
● There will be guest speakers!!
● And we will have a Luminaria ceremony...bring a luminaria, if you like
I hope to see everyone. Please help us make this a great Relay year, if you know anyone else who would be interested in having a team or donating their talent to the committee, please bring them. I would be more then happy to contact or answer any questions.

Kick Off invitation!!

2008 and our Gillespie County Relay For Life Kick Off is here!!

This year's Kick Off event will be Monday, January 21st, 5:30 at CTEC.

There will be pizza, prizes, activities and a luminary ceremony!!! Please help me spread the word and get the whole community to Kick Off!!!

Relay University

Relay University...Saturday, Januray 12th, is the Relay University and anyone interested in being on this years committee is STRONGLY encourgaged to attend.

If you are not RSVP’d and would like to go, please call me ASAP. We need as many committee members there as possible-it is a great experience!!! My cell is 512-644-5307

Gillespie Committee Mtg 11-29-07

Meeting Minutes:

1. Monica gave update on website: http://events.cancer.org/rflgillespietx
2. Arah gave blog: http://gillespierelay.blogspot.com
3. Review of mtg dates/times, also posted on the blog
4. Decision made on Jan. 21st for kickoff for 5:30pm at CTEC, committee please arrive at 5 to help set up.
5. Susan shared her best practices on letter-writing
6. Arah shared the theme for Relay For Life – Celebrate, Remember, Fight Back
7. Arah went over vacancies on committee
8. Arah went over ultimate team points system
9. Announcement of 2008 goal for $145,000.00 WAHOO!!!
10. Announcement of 2008 team goal is: 50 WAHOO!!!
11. Announcement of 2007 team awards
12. Dec. 11th @ 5:30pm @ CTEC, bring ornament

www.cancer.org 800/ACS-2345

Celebrate. Remember. Fight Back.

Cancer may have won some battles, but will never win the war,
We cancer fighters will never stop we're reaching for the stars,
Cancer's taken too many lives, but one day soon will be no more,
We'll fight with faith and fight with strength until our spirits soar.

So many battles have been fought, we've worked hard for the cures,
Our thoughts, our hopes, our dreams to win, have kept our motives pure,
Never give up, never surrender, our battle cry proud and strong,
And one day soon we'll see the end, we pray it won't be long.

Til cancer breathes its final breath, down for the count, you'll see,
Never again to hurt and kill, for no more cancer there will be,
But for now, cancer take your stand, soon we'll stop you in your tracks,
Never give up, never surrender, Celebrate, Remember Fight Back!

- Patti Fisk, 7/8/07

Meeting Schedule

2008 Relay for Life Meetings
Committee Meeting & Team Captain Kick Off
December 11, 2007
Committee meets @ 5:30/Team Captains @ 6:30
Place: Central TX Electric
Bring a $5 or less Ornament for an Ornament Exchange!

Relay University
January 12, 2008
Place: Austin

Committee/Team Captain Meeting
February 4. 2008
Committee meets @ 5:30/Team Captains @ 6:30
Place: Clear River Pecan (upstairs)

Committee/Team Captain Meeting & Bank Night
March 3, 2008
Committee meets @ 5:30/Team Captains @ 6:30
Place: Clear River Pecan

Committee/Team Captain Meeting & Bank Night

March 17, 2008
Committee meets @ 5:30/Team Captains @ 6:30
Place: Clear River Pecan

Committee/Team Captain Meeting & Bank Night
March 31, 2008
Committee meets @ 5:30/Team Captains @ 6:30
Place: CTEC

Committee/Team Captain Meeting & Bank Night
April 14, 2008
Committee meets @ 5:30/Team Captains @ 6:30
Place: CTEC

Committee/Team Captain Meeting & Bank Night
April 28, 2008
Committee meets @ 5:30/Team Captains @ 6:30
Place: FHS Football Stadium

Gillespie County Relay for Life
Place: FHS Football Stadium
Friday, May 2nd thru Saturday May 3rd, 2008

Team Captain Kick Off

CALLING ALL TEAM CAPTAINS!!!!
Our 2008 Team Captain Kick-off is Tuesday December 11th, 6:30pm at CTEC.
Come and register your team for $10….after tonight, it will be the usual $20 registration fee.

Bring an ornament, under $5 for our ornament exchange!!!

Please comment back, or email relay2007@hotmail.com, so I know you are reading!!

Christmas parade

Fredericksburg’s Christmas parade is Friday November 30th, at 6:30pm. I WANNA BE IN THE PARADE!!! Please send me your ideas and if you are interested in riding with me. I am in need of a few car power outlet to plug converters, so we can plug in our lights.

Committee kick-off meeting

If you are interested in being on the 2008 Relay For Life committee….
We are having a committee kick-off Thursday November 29th, 5:30-6:30 at CTEC.
Bring your ideas and anyone else who might be interested in lending their talents to our amazing Relay!!!

November is...
Great American Smokeout (Nov. 15)
Lung Cancer Awareness Month
National Family Caregivers Month
Pancreatic Cancer Awareness Month
National Healthy Skin Month

Tell me how we can incorporate these into our teams and meetings.

Can you get the word out to your team members??? The hospital is is becoming completely Smoke Free on November 15th!!!! Way to go HCMH!!!

VOTE, VOTE, VOTE

Tuesday November 6th is Election Day. If you have not already done early voting at the courthouse, GO VOTE on the 6th!!

Remember WE are all advocates, and voting YES to Proposition 15 is a great way to spread our message and FIGHT BACK!!

Relay is like the carpool lane. The only way to get somewhere quickly is to take some people with you.

We are Advocates

Please remember to vote YES to Prop 15, on November 6th. Early voting has already started at the courthouse. You have probably seen or heard Lance Armstrong getting the word out about Prop 15, it is supported by not only the American Cancer Society, but also the Texas Medical Association, Susan G. Komen, and the Lance Armstrong Foundation.

Texas Holds the Cure
Proposition 15 is a state constitutional amendment to establish the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas to:
*Conduct research to prevent and cure cancer.
*Support existing cancer research efforts in Texas.
*Implement the Texas Cancer Plan, a statewide blueprint for cancer prevention and control.

If passed, Proposition 15 will authorize up to $3 billion in state general revenue bonds to fund cancer research, prevention early detection and control programs.

Remember, we are all advocates everyday! On November 6, 2007 we have the opportunity to be even bigger advocates. Please remind everyone you know to VOTE!!

Unite and fight cancer. Vote for Prop 15.

Find more information at http://www.texanstocurecancer.com/

Theme

The theme of Summit was
Celebrate. Remember. Fight Back.

This is up for discussion (at committee meetings), but I like it. It makes a great answer when we are asked, "What do you do at Relay?" or "Why?"

We Celebrate. the lives of those who have battled cancer.
We Remember. loved ones lost to the disease.
We Fight Back. against a disease that takes too much.

We Relay because we have been touched by cancer and desperatly want to put and end to the disease. Make a commitment to save lives by taking up the fight.

Please comment back, or email relay2007@hotmail.com, so I know you are reading!!

Back from Summit!!

Hello all!! The American Cancer Society's Relay For Life Summit was last weekend, and again the conference was packed with information and helpful resources. The main difference this year was that I went alone. Yep, I had a stranger as a roommate on the 29th floor! I survived amazingly well.

Along with tackling the ballroom with 1300 people each day, I found the support of those 1300 people. We all have a major part of our lives in common, and it took just a few minutes for a click of girls to form. Saturday night was filled with girl fun and confidence building. Getting out of Fredericksburg and meeting people was GREAT! I went out on a limb and did things WAY out of my normal little life and grew because of it.

We won, We won!!

Big news!! Congratulations to everyone!!

We won 2nd runner up per capita in our size county. Cristi didnt even know, so we were both pleasently surprised :-)

Thanks to everyone, I was able to say all night that I won something!!!

ARAH

I thought I should send a note before I head off to the American Cancer Society's Relay For Life Summit in Dallas!!! I am really excited and I know I will come back from Dallas FULL of ideas and information...so watch out!!!

Please check out this link...and remember our R-E-A-S-O-N to Relay.
R-research
E-education
A-advocacy
S-services
ON to a Cure!

50 Examples of "Where The Money Goes"
http://teamup.typepad.com/centxrfl/2007/05/research_epidem.html

Please remember the research & advocacy doesnt necessarily take place in Gillespie County, but we all benefit from the work done by the American Cancer Society.

Thank you all for all of your hard work!

just notes...

I am still putting together the 2007 scrapbook. Any pictures you have would be greatly appreciated, ESPECIALLY if you have any pictures of the closing ceremony.

If you have any Ink Jet cartridges, please save them for our Relay! Yesterday I received a check from the recycle place!! That is so exciting!

I am still looking to fill several committee positions. If you are interested in helping, please call me 512/644-5307, or reply to this email. If you are receiving this email…then I have a position in mind for you! We can meet for lunch or after work.