A Special Thank You To The 911 Angels.

To all the 911 Angels,

I just wanted to take the time to say thank you to everyone that helped me reach my goal.

You don't know how much it means to me to know that I am supported by such strong and determined women. You ladies are the reason I choose to be apart of the 2010-11 Youth Crew. Your willingness to fight to find a cure touched me. To be apart of something bigger than myself is an eye opening experience and I'm glad I can share it with all of you. I look forward to seeing each and everyone of you at the walk. Because alone we can not find a cure but together we can achieve. I promise to give a hundred and ten percent during the three days because you ladies deserve nothing less. Remember the steps we take today can make history tomorrow.

Yours truly,

Johannah Garcia your 2010-11 Youth Crew Member

AMAZING ANGELS - FUNDRAISING UPDATE.

The Countdown has begun!!!! A week from today we will be heading up to San Francisco to register for our big weekend!!! I am SOOOOO VERY proud of each and every one of you for your fundraising efforts. Collectively, we have raised over $40,000 and I am certain by the time we walk in more donations to Event Eve we will be well over $45,000.00 !!! Our team is holding steady the 4th place for most money raised!

I know donations are still rolling in but I want to congratulate our teams "top walker" ... Congratulations Teresa Zagalo for raising $4,266.35 !!!!

We have another NEW team member who joined just after The Pink Party. As you all know, Linda Doering's proxy walker will be her sister in law, breast cancer survivor Tammy Meinen. Tammy's younger sister, Lisa Cunningham has decided to walk along with her. Lisa registered less than 2 weeks ago and has already raised $1,640.00 !!! AMAZING !!!!

Yesterday, my husband Alex reached his goal and just today I bypassed mine. phew, relief !!!
Congratulations to Kehau, Katie, Andrea, Jennifer Burnham, Martha, Tammy Church, Catalina, Linda/Tammy, Jenn Hern, Onne, Dashawn, Jennifer Tuck, Margaret and Teresa for meeting and bypassing your required $1,800.00 !!!

There are a few team members who STILL need help with donations so if you have any other donations come in before Friday, can you please keep them in an envelope and bring them to Event Eve for the walkers who are still in need. I will collect and distribute for Clara, Uyen, Tiara and Amy.

Keep up the good work Angels !!!

Xoxoxoxo

Tara

Paint The City Pink - 2010 Pink Party

Hi Team,

Thanks again for all your hard work in order to have a successful Pink Party. We made $2,210 from door donations and the silent auction. Pretty good for a party planned in just under a month !!!! Everyone worked so well in keeping the overhead costs down almost to nothing so that more money can go towards the cause!!!!

I want to give a HUUUUUUGE THANK YOU to both Jenn Hern, who took the big lead in the planning this year and Kehau Ahyo who headed up the Decorating Committee and really put a lot of time and energy into the planning and execution of getting the POA Hall to fit into this years theme. Both of you went above and beyond to make sure this party came together successfully.

Other help did not go unnoticed, special thank you to Andrea and Catalina for working on getting all the yummy food COMPLETELY donated.

Thank you to Lei and Clara for the city skyline, Jen Tuck and Uyen for helping out too.

Thank you for those team members who put together basket donations for the silent auction ... The bulk of the baskets were brought by Tiara, Tammy, Kehau, and the Doering/Tuck/Tu Team!!!

Thank you to Katie, Martha, Jen Tuck, Clara and Uyen for helping pre-decorate on Friday.... And lastly, I cannot forget to thank those who came early before the party and stayed late into the night to help clean the entire POA Hall - KEHAU, JENN HERN, ANDREA, JONATHON, CATALINA, SCOTT, ALEX, DASHAWN and TIARA!!! Thank you, Thank you, Thank you !!!

There were quite a few baskets that were NOT bid on. We have decided to host an online silent auction through facebook as we did last year! It was VERY SUCCESSFUL (Tammy Church can attest to that!!!! - cuuuuuute story, ask her about it on the Walk!!!) If all remaining baskets sell for the minimum starting bid, we will make an additional $1,000.00 !!! I will have that start tomorrow after I get the auction up online and close in 5-7 days.

We made enough to distribute at least $200 onto each walkers account (at least those who participated in the planning of and attended the party and who still need to reach $1,800). There were a few team members who had already raised their needed $1,800 prior to the Pink Party and yet STILL helped out with this fundraiser to make it a success for those of us who still need $$. Please be sure to thank Andrea, Catalina and Dashawn for being TRUE TEAM PLAYERS !!!!

I plan on posting donations on Monday, please send me an email if you have ANY donations in hand that you still need to post to your account so I can get an idea of how much each walker still needs to raise! Only 20 days left !!!!

Hope your training well !!! ;)
Happy Trails,
Tara