Opening
the curtains on new website
Relay For Life is June 14-15 at CASS
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.
The 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.
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 blog 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), stories
about luminary sales, sponsorship, volunteering, the silent auction, registering
as a survivor, and the logistics of setting up the camp at CASS. To sign up or
sponsor a participant, see: www.relayforlife.ca/woodstock or call the Oxford
unit office at (519) 537-5592.
woodstockrelay.blogspot.com
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