The Arizona Ghostbusters appeared at our local comic book shop Spazdog Comics on Free Comic Book Day 5/3/2008. Besides promoting Free Comic Book Day, we teamed with the shop to host a summer food drive for our local food bank. Summer is the lowest donation time for food banks. What we collected went to the John C. Lincoln Hospital and Dessert Mission Food Banks. We collected 167 lbs. of food and other much needed supplies. Also appearing at the shop was local superhero Citizen Prime. We'd like to thank Spazdog Comics owner Shawn Demumbrum for hosting the food drive.

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Saturday April 26th the Arizona Ghostbusters appeared at the Phoenix Diabetes Expo at the downtown convention center. It seems a strange place for us but we were asked by the local American Diabetes Association office to help them promote and recruit more walkers the Step Out to Fight Diabetes Charity Walk we participate in. They surprised us by giving us a booth to showcase our work and allowed us to pass out our information pamphlets and our flyers for our Free Comic Book Day food drive. It was a long day but well worth it. Two of us stayed at the booth and three of us walked the floor and stayed around the ADA booth for the walk recruitment. We had a great response and made alot of contacts with other non-profit groups that would like us to help them out at future events. The hall was busy the entire day and there alot of informative presentations and booths. We hope to be back next year. We'd like to think Mary Medola and the American Diabetes Association for letting us help out.

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Saturday morning March 1st, the Arizona Ghostbusters attended the Phoenix Heart Walk at Tempe Town Lake. It was by far the best walk we've attended so far in terms of the amount of walkers, location, and events before and after the walk. Our new recruit, John, and his father walked with us. He wore his old toy proton pack which was great. It was a 3 mile walk over the bridges crossing Tempe Town Lake and the surrounding park. Luckily it didn't start to warm up till the end of the walk. As we were moving through the crowds we could hear people comment on where they've seen us before, the comicon, Art Walks, and our other previous charity walks.

We raised $400 for the American Heart Association. It was alot of work but even more fun. We'd like to thank everyone who made donations to this great cause and all those who participated in the walk itself.

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