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Relay For Life 10/11/2008
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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