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Bookmans Store Appearances 8/22/09 & 8/29/09
To help raise funds for the Step Out to
Fight Diabetes Walk on September 26th, the Arizona Ghostbusters teamed up with the local store chain Bookmans Entertainment Exchange. Bookmans specializes in new and used books, games, and music and is a great place to find many rare items. August was Movie
Madness month in the store and each weekend had a different movie themed event. In honor of the 25th anniversary of Ghostbusters,
the chain had us appear and set up a booth at two of their store locations.
The first store appearance was at the Phoenix location on Saturday August
22nd with Matt H, Christina, and Neal in attendance. The second was at the Mesa location on Saturday August 29 with Cody,
Neal, and Jeff. At each event, a small booth was set up with diabetes walk information, ghost candy, and small marshmallow
bags. Our teams and the store employees handed out free raffle tickets to customers in the stores. The raffle items included
both store merchandise and Ghostbusters collectables. Both store
appearances were heavily promoted but we were still quite surprised to find lots of families waiting for us. We had some of
the largest turnouts of families with children yet. Many of the parents told us their children played the game first and then
wanted to see the film. I’m happy to report one of our biggest little fans won an original Real Ghostbusters Ghost Popper
toy. Seeing that certainly brought back some memories. The store made a generous donation of $200 for our Diabetes walk team.
We’d like to thank Bookmans and organizer Lori Whipple for these great opportunities to interact with fellow fans and
for the donations.
Our diabetes walk team page is located here.
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