First of all, thank you very much to everyone for their support for Melanie’s marathon and fund raising effort where she raised an astonishing $6700.  As I warned at that time we would be hitting up our friends and family twice this year and now is that time.  However, given that we just finished raising money for Melanie’s marathon we are going to approach our second fund raiser for the year in a different manner. 

If you remember, last year we participated in Light The Night where we formed a team of friends and family and headed downtown to join the thousands of others to walk through the streets of downtown Dallas lighting the way with our lit balloons.  https://teamfricke.wordpress.com/2010/10/25/light-the-night/  Light The Night Walk is The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society’s annual fundraising walk to pay tribute and bring hope to people battling cancer.  This year we are changing venues and heading north to light up the sky with a sea of white, red, and gold balloons in honor of our hero, Cutler and rather than hit everyone up directly for money we are hoping to enlist anyone interested in joining us in person and showing how large and strong Team Cutler really is. 

The walk is scheduled for October 22^nd, in Plano and we would love to see anyone and everyone interested in joining us.  That evening, prior to the walk, there is a celebration complete with food, drinks, and games.  In order to participate, you would need to raise only a minimum of $100.  Naturally we would like to raise more than the minimum per team member, but that’s only hitting up 10 friends, family members, or work associates for $10.  To join just go to our team fundraising page, http://pages.lightthenight.org/ntxok/Plano11/TeamCutler, and scroll to the bottom and click JOIN in the JOIN OUR TEAM NOW section and get the process rolling where you can build your own fundraising site to help in the cause.

This goes for our out of town friends as well; if you want to come down we will find a way to put you up for the weekend in the Team Fricke compound.  The weather will be nice by then, so a good campout in the backyard would be nice if we get enough out-of-towners.

If you can’t join us, but want to donate, just head to the fund raising site, http://pages.lightthenight.org/ntxok/Plano11/TeamCutler, and donate away and feel free to send to your friends and family.  We don’t need to know them, we welcome all support.

Contact me at aaron@teamfricke.com with any questions and will let you know as we work towards some fun fundraising ideas, including a repeat of the kid’s lemonade stand, https://teamfricke.wordpress.com/2010/10/25/turning-lemons-into-lemonade/ and hopefully more this year.