On Saturday October 25th, 2008, the Arizona Ghostbusters attended the International Horror and Sci-Fi Film Festival. The festival was held in it's new location at the Chandler Cinemas and expanded to four days. We set up a booth Saturday afternoon to collect donations for our MS Walk team but selling our Stay-Puft Marshmallow bags, Crunch bars, and Twinkies. As an added bonus our member John Yurcaba, a talented artist, offered caricature drawings for donations. These proved to be extremely popular. Later in the evening we returned to help judge the costume contest as we did last year. We had alot of fun and we'd like to thank the film festival and especially festival director Andrea Beesley-Brown for having us.

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On Saturday morning October 18, 2008 the Arizona Ghostbusters participated in the Step Out To Fight Diabetes Walk in Prescott, AZ. The organizers of this walk saw us at the Diabetes Expo and our previous Diabetes walks in Phoenix and asked us to participate in their walk. They were very excited about having us and had us do a local television spot and put us in their newsletter to promote the event. Unfortunately due to scheduling conflicts only Jeff and Neal were able to make the long drive up but our participation was still very much appreciated. The organizers gave us a great introduction stage before the walk started. It was a 4 mile walk around the local reservation and we found out you can walk uphill both directions. During the walk we passed out "Diabetesbusters" stickers. It was a great event in a beautiful location.

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On Saturday October 11th, 2008 the Arizona Ghostbusters attended the Relay For Life of the Southwest Valley in Goodyear, AZ. The event ran for 12 hours from 6 pm to 6am. The event was held at the local community park. Along the walk path each fundraising team set up a booth to sell various items such as food, shirts, and even face and pumpkin painting. Donations were collected by teams before the event and thru their booths at the event itself. At our booth we made our Stay-Puft Marshallow bags and also sold Crunch bars and Twinkies. One of the fundraising events was a basket raffle. Several of the main teams including ours assembled a basket. In ours we put a GB t-shirt, one of our logo hats, the dvd pack, some stickers and candy. We set up a TV at our table to play both movies and some cartoon episodes which often attracted groups and children to watch.

The event organizers were very excited about our participation in the event and honored us by putting our AZ GB logo on the back of the walk shirts and in the program for the event. It was a very emotional night at times as we've all lost someone to cancer. The highlight of the evening was the memorial luminarie walk.

Late in the evening they set up a large inflatable movie screen on the baseball diamond for everyone to play Rock Band. Since we usually play Rock Band at our team meetings it was only natural for us to join in. It was a long but fun night and I can say one of the few times it was cold. We're certainly looking forward to the next Relay. With the pre-relay donations and what all of our the teams collected currently over $7,000 was raised and the total should go higher after everything is counted.

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The Arizona Ghostbusters pulled double duty Saturday September 27, 2008. We had two events at almost exactly the same time at opposite ends of town. Matt H and Trey went to the MS Awareness Night held at a Arizona Diamondbacks baseball game in downtown Phoenix. A table was set up to recruit people for the upcoming MS Walk. The guys took donations for pictures with them for our MS walk team. We'd like to thank the local MS Society Chapter for allowing us to help out at the event.

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